Gurugram, June 7 -- The Haryana government's department of town and country planning (DTCP) is upgrading its online portal to minimise manual intervention in uploading data of applicants, officials, aware of the matter, said on Friday. The e-portal will be linked with Aadhaar cards, which will ensure that details of homebuyers are automatically uploaded by the software, they added. The action comes after the department cancelled the allotment of over 700 flats in an affordable housing project in Sohna, where allotment was found to be faulty due to a software glitch. The department has said that while refunds of the booking amount to nearly 35,000 applicants for the Sohna project has been done, the payment to the remaining 14,000 will be completed by next Thursday. "The portal is being repaired to minimise human intervention at all levels. The applications will be linked with Aadhar cards and we are trying to devise a mechanism whereby applicant details are fetched automatically from Aadhar card data. This will also ensure that applicants who have already obtained an affordable flat are weeded out from the draw of lots," said Renuka Singh, senior town planner. Singh also said that till date they have managed to refund the booking amount to 35,000 applicants, who were not selected in the draw of flats for the Sohna housing project. "The refund for the remaining 14,000 applicants is also being processed and it will be done by next Thursday," she said, adding that the draw of lots for three affordable housing projects have been put on hold till the portal is approved. DTCP had on May 1, cancelled the allotment of 708 flats in an affordable housing project in Sector 36, Sohna after it was found that a software glitch in the portal had led to allotment of flats to applicants of Sohna town only. The departmental committee, which had probed the faulty allotment found that only 2,200 applicants out of the 51,586 were considered for the draw. The department on February 18, had decided to withhold the faulty allotment after it found the anomaly in the results. DTCP, later, carried out a fresh draw of lots for applicants in which 708 applicants were found successful, said DTCP officials, who added that since the matter is sub-judice, they have sought directions from the headquarters about the next course of action....