Chandigarh, July 10 -- UT's housing sector has remained stagnant even as neighbours Mohali and Panchkula have seen rapid growth in group housing projects over the past decade.

While nearly 350 housing societies have come up in these two cities-around 200 in Mohali and 150 in Panchkula- City Beautiful has not seen the launch of a single new housing scheme since 2016.

In a limbo

The last major housing scheme launched by the Chandigarh Housing Board (CHB) was in 2016, which offered 200 two-bedroom flats in Sector 51 at Rs.69 lakh each.

Meanwhile, a self-financing housing scheme launched for the employees of the UT administration in 2008 remains in limbo as land was not allotted for the project. In May last year, the Punjab and Haryana hi...