Dev authorities too flouting UPRERA rules

LUCKNOW: Private realtors are not alone, development authorities are equal culprits when it comes to providing regular updates and information related to their projects on UPRERA portal - a mandatory prerequisite to enable the real estate watchdog to monitor their progress.

Forget furnishing project information, only 16 out of the total 28 development authorities in the state have registered themselves with the UPRERA. Like private players in the realty business, development authorities are also required to register themselves as a promoter with UPRERA before undertaking any housing project.

With the exception of Gorakhpur in providing information and updating their projects, none of the development authorities have provided project information, a fact check by UPRERA has revealed.

Projects registration and their updating is a mandatory exercise, which authorities and realtors are supposed to undertake every three months. Furnishing information on the number of units sold, bookings received and registries executed and money received etc after each quarter are mandatory upon promoters under RERA.

The regulator has now decided to act tough with those who do not update their records and impose a fine of ₹10,000 for each quarter delay and initiate proceedings for canceling the registration if such lapses reoccur.

The UP Avas Vikas Parishad, another government housing body, is no different. “Around 80 percent of the complaints with our Greater Noida bench relate to this region with UPAVP, GDA and NOIDA authorities having a fair share of them,” said a UPRERA official.

Recently, housing commissioner Ajay Chauhan found himself at the receiving end of the pent-up anger of harried homebuyers during one of his visits to Ghaziabad when he was ‘gheraoed’ by residents of Ganga Yamuna and Hindon Enclave in Siddhartha Vihar at the guest house in which he was staying. Started in 2011 by UPAVP, the housing scheme has 1292 flats out of which 700 are still lying vacant, while around 500 allottees, who have moved in are ruing the day they opted for the project.

“We have been waging a relentless battle for five years now to draw the attention of the authorities towards the appalling conditions and lack of infrastructure facilities. We have filed multiple complaints with UPRERA, the Prime Minister’s Office and the UP CM’s office but things have started moving only recently,” says Abhishek Singh, general secretary of the flat owners association.