The Free Press Journal

RERA records nearly 11K projects on deadline day

- STAFF REPORTER

In total, 10, 852 realty projects were registered on the Real Estate Regulatory Authority website by the midnight of Monday. Officials said that the penalty amount to be levied on developers for late registrati­ons would be decided in the RERA committee meeting on Wednesday.

A senior RERA official confirmed that there are over 1,000 developers who have registered their projects after the deadline. The penalty amount would be the same for all developers due to late submission­s. Fearing action against them, developers rushed with all their project details to get them registered on the website. On the last day of submission­s, nearly 5,000 projects were registered in just 16 hours.

The total number of registered projects has crossed 12,000 till Tuesday afternoon. The authoritie­s have divided the areas of the state into six divisions namely Amravati, Nashik, Nagpur, Pune, Konkan and Aurangabad.

While the lowest number of registered realty projects was recorded in Amravati with only 90 registrati­ons, the Konkan division topped the list with more than 6,170 registrati­ons. It was followed by Pune division with 3,462 registrati­ons of projects. Officials said that the total number of registrati­ons from divisions like Nashik, Nagpur and Aurangabad was surprising since they had expected more participat­ions of developers from these areas.

The official added, “It is a possibilit­iy that the developers of rural areas are completely unaware about the process to register their projects and are finding it difficult to apply, however, the time period given to developers was more than enough. If a developer is ready with all the details of the project then it would hardly take more than an hour to get their projects registered on the website.”

The authoritie­s have also provided a new window for citizens to register their complaints against developers regarding any forgery or irregulari­ties in the project. The complainan­t would have to pay a minimum of Rs 5,000 for registerin­g their complaints on the website.

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