From Draw of Lots to our first Dream Home: My Journey to Jeevan Bima Nagar
Have you ever dreamed of owning a beautiful house, where you can make countless happy memories with your loved ones? Well, dreams do come true! I'm here to share with you the story of how I managed to get the allotment of a Jeevan Bima Nagar house, where I spent eight prosperous and happy years from 1991 to 1999. The journey to get there was full of unexpected twists and turns, and it all started in September of 1990. That year, the Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) had organized a grand event in the Town Hall of Bangalore for the allotment of houses through a draw of lots. It was a widely advertised and well-organized electronic event, leveraging ECIL technology and software. As it was the first electronic draw, the procedure was explained in detail, and the audience was assured that what would normally take two to three days would be over swiftly in two to three hours. LIC was allotting four types of houses, P, L, M, and N, and the draw took place in reverse sequence, with N being...