Chandigarh, Nov. 27 -- Nearly three years after the need-based changes policy was put on hold in January 2023, UT administrator Gulab Chand Kataria has directed the Chandigarh Housing Board (CHB) to review its decision and explore ways to operationalise the policy.

The need-based changes policy was first announced on March 23, 2010, followed by subsequent notifications on July 7, 2015; February 18, 2016; February 15, 2019; and finally on January 3, 2023.

However, the policy was put on hold after the Supreme Court, in an order dated January 10, 2023, prohibited the conversion of residential units into floor-wise apartments in Sectors 1 to 30, stating that these sectors carried the heritage status of Le Corbusier zone.

The court had also...