The MHADA Pune Lottery 2026 application process has been disrupted by a technical failure on the Maha-IT server, leaving the barcodes on applicants’ domicile and income certificates unverified and preventing many people from completing their applications before the 15 October deadline.
The Pune Housing and Area Development Board has offered 4,862 homes across Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad in the lottery. More than a lakh applications have reportedly been submitted so far, increasing pressure on the verification system as the closing date approaches.
Applicants cannot pay the required deposit or finalise their forms until the mandatory documents are approved. The problem has left hundreds of applicants waiting for their certificates to be verified and has prompted many of them to visit MHADA offices in person for assistance.
According to information cited in the report, more than 18,000 document verifications are currently pending at MHADA’s backend because of the disruption in the Maha-IT system. Applicants whose documents remain unverified are repeatedly attempting to upload the same certificates, adding to the load on the system and worsening the difficulty of completing the process online.
The application deadline was initially set for 30 September but was extended to 15 October after technical problems affected applicants. The continuing server issue has therefore persisted despite the earlier extension, leaving applicants with only a few days to complete the remaining stages of the process.
MHADA has said that the problem is not related to its own website but to a technical failure involving the Maha-IT server, which is used to verify the barcodes on income and domicile certificates issued by tehsildars. The board’s information and communications technology department is following up with Maha-IT to resolve the fault, according to the report.
The disruption has also created an administrative burden at MHADA offices, where officials are dealing with applicants affected by the online error. The reported backlog has made document verification the immediate bottleneck in the lottery process, since applicants cannot proceed to the deposit-payment stage without approval.
Senior MHADA sources said efforts were under way to restore the server at the earliest. They said the administration was monitoring the situation and would discuss an extension with senior officials if the technical problem was not resolved in time, so that applicants would not be disadvantaged by the failure.
A decision on any further extension will depend on the status of the Maha-IT server and the progress of pending document verifications. The present deadline for submitting and completing applications remains 15 October, unless MHADA announces a change.
