Saumitra Vihar Housing Scheme, Lucknow (UP Awas Vikas Parishad)

What is the Saumitra Vihar Housing Scheme?

Saumitra Vihar is a residential township scheme of the Uttar Pradesh Awas Evam Vikas Parishad, the state's Housing and Development Board, planned near New Jail Road in Lucknow. Reported details put the scheme at roughly 200 acres laid out in eight residential sectors with planned urban amenities.

What makes Saumitra Vihar significant is not its size but its method. It is described as the Parishad's first residential scheme developed through the land pooling model. Under land pooling, farmers contribute their land to the scheme voluntarily and are given developed plots in the completed township in return, instead of receiving cash compensation under land acquisition law. The Parishad has already conducted the lottery for the participating farmers in the pilot, and registry of those allotted plots was underway as the scheme moved towards public launch.

The project was approved on 2 January 2021 and has been in development for several years. Launch dates have been reported differently as the project advanced to 1 November 2025 in one account and 25 December, Good Governance Day, in another, which is a reasonable indication that the public registration window has moved with the pace of the farmers' registry rather than following a fixed calendar.

This guide is deliberately shorter than most on this site, because the Parishad has not yet published a scheme brochure with plot sizes, categories, rates or the registration window. Everything below that is stated as fact comes from the Parishad's own portal or from reported project decisions; nothing about plot dimensions or pricing is stated, because nothing has been officially published.

Who can buy a plot in Saumitra Vihar?

You can register when the scheme opens if:

• You are an adult Indian citizen able to pay the registration deposit set out in the scheme brochure.
• You hold Aadhaar and PAN, both of which UPAVP requires for a property transaction of this value.
• You are a farmer who pooled land into the scheme, in which case your plot comes from the land pooling entitlement and the farmers' lottery, not from the public draw.

You are not eligible for, and should not treat this scheme as:

• A subsidy or free-housing scheme. Saumitra Vihar sells developed plots at Parishad rates. It is not a welfare benefit, and no financial assistance is paid to the buyer.
• A guaranteed allotment. Registration in a UPAVP scheme buys a place in a lottery, not a plot. Where registrations exceed available plots, a draw decides allotment and unsuccessful registrations are refunded.
• Open on a first-come basis by default. Some Parishad properties are sold under a separate First Come First Served window and others by e-auction; the scheme brochure states which route applies.

No income limit, category reservation or occupational eligibility has been announced for Saumitra Vihar. Where a UPAVP scheme carries reservation for particular categories, that is set out in the brochure, and until the brochure is published nothing about reservation here should be assumed.

How to apply for a plot in Saumitra Vihar

The Parishad runs a common online process for its plot and flat schemes. These are the steps a registrant follows.

1. Watch the public notices section of upavp.in and the Parishad's advertisements for the Saumitra Vihar registration announcement. The scheme brochure released with that advertisement is the only authoritative source for plot sizes, rates, reservation and dates.
2. Create a login on the Parishad's online portal, upavponline.in, which handles online registration for flats, houses and plots along with e-challan generation and ledger viewing.
3. Fill the scheme registration form with your name, father's or husband's name, Aadhaar number, PAN, address and bank account details, and upload your photograph, signature and identity documents.
4. Pay the registration deposit through the e-challan or net banking option on the portal, within the window stated in the brochure, and save the payment receipt.
5. Wait for the lottery draw. The Parishad announces the draw date and publishes the result, after which successful registrants receive an allotment letter setting out the payment schedule.
6. Pay according to the allotment schedule — the Parishad normally allows payment in instalments, and complete the registry of the plot when the Parishad calls you for it.

If you are not allotted a plot, the registration deposit is refunded to the account you entered at registration, on the terms printed in the brochure. That is the practical reason to enter your own, correct, active bank account rather than a family member's.

What to be careful about

• Do not pay any agent or broker for "confirmed allotment" in a UPAVP scheme. Allotment in a lottery-based scheme cannot be arranged, and any offer to do so is a fraud.
• Do not rely on plot sizes or rates published on property portals before the Parishad's own brochure is out. Several sites carry figures for Saumitra Vihar that the Parishad has not published.
• Check the land pooling status if you are a farmer with land in the scheme area. Your entitlement flows from the pooling agreement and the farmers' lottery, and queries about it go to the Parishad's Lucknow circle office rather than through the public registration route.
• Verify the scheme name and circle before paying anything. UPAVP runs multiple Lucknow schemes at once, including a separate Jail Road scheme, and registration deposits are scheme-specific.

Where to get confirmed information

• Jan Suvidha Kendra, UP Awas Evam Vikas Parishad: 1800-180-5333 (toll-free) or 0522-2236803. This is the most reliable route for the current status of the Saumitra Vihar registration window.
• Public notices section of upavp.in, where scheme advertisements and brochures are published.
• The Parishad's online portal, upavponline.in, for registration, e-challan payment, ledger and property details.
• State grievance portal: jansunwai.up.nic.in, for a tracked written complaint about a Parishad allotment or refund.

Registration on the Parishad's own portal costs only the notified registration deposit, which is adjusted against the plot price on allotment and refunded if no plot is allotted. No separate fee is payable to any intermediary.

How to check your application status

Because Saumitra Vihar runs on the Parishad's shared online system rather than a scheme-specific tracker, checking status means checking your registration record on that shared portal, not a separate Saumitra Vihar dashboard.

1. Log in at upavponline.in with the same credentials you used at registration. The portal's ledger and property section shows every scheme you have registered against, the deposit you paid, and the payment receipt.
2. Look for a lottery result notice on upavp.in's public notices section once the Parishad announces a draw date for Saumitra Vihar. Results for Parishad schemes are usually published as a list of successful registration or application numbers rather than sent out individually, so you need to check the notice yourself against your own registration number.
3. Match your registration number and applicant name against the published list carefully. UPAVP schemes have had cases where similar names caused confusion, so confirm the match using your full registration or application number, not name alone.
4. Call the Jan Suvidha Kendra on 1800-180-5333 (toll-free) or 0522-2236803 if the portal ledger does not reflect a payment you made, or if you cannot find your name on a published result. Keep your registration number, the e-challan or payment receipt, and your Aadhaar number ready when you call, since the helpline staff will ask for these to pull up your record.
5. Watch for the allotment letter after a successful draw. The Parishad typically issues this through the portal and by post, and it carries the payment schedule for the remaining plot price. If a reasonable time has passed after the draw and no letter or portal update has appeared, that is when to escalate through the helpline or the Lucknow circle office rather than assume allotment.

Since the Parishad has not yet published a fixed registration or draw calendar for Saumitra Vihar specifically, checking status regularly through the portal and the helpline is more reliable here than waiting for a one-time notification, and it also protects you against relying on unofficial dates circulating on property websites.

Common reasons for rejection

Parishad schemes of this kind reject registrations or hold up allotments for a narrow set of recurring reasons, most of which are avoidable at the time you register.

• Mismatch between Aadhaar, PAN and bank account details. If the name or date of birth on your Aadhaar does not match your PAN, or if the bank account you enter is not in your own name, the portal or the Parishad's verification can flag the registration. Fix this before registering, not after, since corrections once a registration is submitted are harder to process.
• Incomplete or unclear uploaded documents. A blurred photograph, an unsigned form, or a scanned identity document with missing pages is a common reason applications are set aside during verification. Check every upload on the portal before final submission, since most Parishad portals do not allow re-upload after submission.
• Deposit payment not reflecting due to a failed or delayed e-challan. If the payment gateway times out or the challan is generated but not paid within its validity window, the registration can be treated as incomplete. Always confirm the payment status on the portal ledger and keep the transaction receipt, rather than assuming a debited amount means the registration is complete.
• Registering under the wrong scheme or circle. UPAVP runs several schemes in Lucknow at the same time, including other projects near Jail Road. Registering deposit money against the wrong scheme name is a real and reported problem with Parishad portals, and getting a wrongly-credited deposit moved to the correct scheme takes a written request to the Parishad, not a portal self-service option.
• Claiming the land-pooling farmer route without matching pooling records. If you believe you are entitled to a plot as a farmer who pooled land, but your name does not match the Parishad's own pooling and lottery records for Saumitra Vihar, your claim will not be processed through the general public registration form. That entitlement has to be reconciled with the Lucknow circle office against the original pooling agreement, not filed as a fresh public registration.
• Missing the payment schedule after a successful draw. Even after allotment, failing to pay instalments by the dates in the allotment letter can cause the allotment itself to lapse under the Parishad's standard terms. Track the payment schedule as carefully as the registration deposit itself.

Since UPAVP has not yet published the specific scheme brochure for Saumitra Vihar, some rejection grounds particular to this scheme, such as category-specific documentation, cannot be listed with certainty; the reasons above are the ones that recur across the Parishad's plot and flat schemes generally and are worth guarding against regardless of the exact brochure terms.