Real Estate Regulatory Authorities

Haryana becomes the first State in the country to have set up two different Real Estate Regulatory Authorities for the convenient of all the stakeholders.

Facts :

• Mr Manohar inaugurated the web portal of Haryana Real Estate Regulatory Authority (H-RERA) of Panchkula and Gurugram.
• The Haryana Real Estate Regulatory Authorities of Panchkula and Gurugram have been set up to balance the interest of all the three stakeholders- allottees, promoters and real estate agents/brokers.
• Apart from redressing the complaints of the stakeholders, the H-RERA also ensures protecting their rights.
• In view of the complications faced by the people in unplanned real estate sector, the State Government has set up one H-RERA exclusively to deal with cases of Gurugram, the highly populated and developed city, and another authority in Panchkula to deal with real estate issues of rest of Haryana.
• After the launch of online portal of Haryana Real Estate Regulatory Authorities of Gurugram and Panchkula, the stakeholders could not only make complaints by sitting at their home but also check the status of their complaints.
• General complaints would be resolved by H-RERA within a time period of 60 days.
• State Government has decided to constitute an Appellate Tribunal with its Head Office in Karnal to hear the complaints of stakeholders against the decision of Haryana Real Estate Regulatory Authority (H-RERA).
• The Chairman of the Appellate Tribunal has been appointed whereas the process of appointing its members is in progress.
• Chief Minister appreciated the Haryana NIC team for developing the webportal. He also gave away letters of appreciation to five members’ team of NIC headed by Mr Deepak Bansal.
• After starting the functioning of H-RERA in February 2018, as many as 1500 complaints have been received by both the authorities out of which 450 complaints have been disposed off. Efforts are being made by the authorities to dispose of all the complaints within a period of 60 days.
• The status of application for registration of project could be viewed by the people at any time.
• Apart from this, district wise list of project is available on the website and the consumer would be able to see the project details including cost of the project and its lay out plan etc.
• Other activities including judgment of the authorities would also be uploaded on daily basis with an objective that people would not be required to visit the office of the authorities as the requisite information would be available on time.
• Both the authorities are working in coordination to ensure uniform judgement throughout the State.

Analysis :

• Real Estate sector act as the major contributor in the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and it contributes about 9 to 10 per cent in the National Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
• Homes being the necessity of almost every family, efforts are being made to ensure that the real estate sector shift from unplanned to planned.
• H-RERA has taken a historic decision to redress the complaints concerning both registered and non-registered projects.
• Setting up of H-RERA has given a ray of hope to those allotees who were feeling dejected earlier by the developers. On an average basis, the Authorities receive 15 complaints per day.
• CM Khattar said, H-RERA is not a complaints authority but a regulating authority which not only hear the grievances of the stakeholders but also facilitates the time bound disposal of these complaints.
• He said that within just two months of taking the reign of administration in the State, we have started e-registration in the State on December 25, 2014, which was observed as Good Governance Day.
• Thereafter, the State Government has made various services online to ensure that benefit of these services reach at the grass root level in a transparent manner.
   

By: Harman Sandhu