Institutional provisioning of affordable rental housing in urban India: Past experiences and way for

3.2.3 Chandigarh Small Flats Scheme Rental management and maintenance of the scheme have been the responsibility of the CHB, and the maintenance of parks and open areas was the responsibility of the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation (CMC). [...] At present, efforts are underway by the Kota UIT to enable the formation of the RWA in the scheme so that the upkeep and maintenance of the complex can be taken over by the residents. [...] In West Bengal, the management of PRHEs has been a financial burden on the state government, and the inability to implement a rental management mechanism by the MMRDA was one of the key reasons for the cancellation of the rental housing scheme in Mumbai. [...] According to the ARHCs guidelines, the management of the rental complexes is the responsibility of the concessionaire in ARHCs Model 1 and the institution/s who are the owners of the rental housing created under ARHCs Model 2. [...] The housing associations in the Netherlands are not-for-profit organisations under the purview of the Ministry of Housing and are often engaged with the local government in the creation, operation, and management of social housing including setting the allocation rules determining the eligibility of beneficiaries (Elsinga and Wassenberg, 2006).