Pokhara, April 20: A total of 302 depositors with the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) have applied for apartment blocks under the “Pokhara Housing Project” launched by the epf in Pokhara.

The EPF had called for applications for the apartment buildings from the depositors on installment basis on March 3. The deadline for the application was till April 19.

Out of the applications collected at the Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF) Biratnagar, Pokhara, Bhairahawa and Nepalgunj branch offices, 38 applications have been filed for the 33 low-income apartment blocks, 57 for the 27 medium income group apartments and an additional 207 for other 49 apartments.

According to the EPF, not a single application was made in Dhankuta Branch while Kathmandu and Pokhara handled the maximum number of applications.

The apartments would be distributed to the applicants after processing the applications as soon as possible, chief of the EPF Pokhara branch Kedarnath Gautam said.