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To avoid stringent Act builders get OCs for incomplete projects

If a builder allows people to live in incomplete buildings, this is a serious violation of law. We will examine all these cases: Shishir Singh

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Residents in Noida, Greater Noida, and Gurugram have come forth with complaints that many developers whose buildings are not even ready yet have managed to procure Occupancy Certificates (OC). The residents have urged the authorities concerned to initiate a probe into the alleged scam.

"This amounts to playing with lives of thousand of people as the structures are incomplete as per the National Building Code and the authorities have allowed occupancy in such buildings. If the authorities do not pay heed, we will stage a dharna and protest against tainted developers and the authorities," Amit Gupta, a home buyer in Noida, said.

According to complainants, these OCs have been procured to avoid following the guidelines of the stringent Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act (RERA), 2016, which came into effect all across the country on May 1, 2017.

All 'ongoing' projects that did not receive the OC before the commencement of the Act will come under its purview. For projects where the OC has already been issued, the developers need not go for registration under the new Act. To avoid the strict RERA rules, several builders have got the OC from local authorities.

As per RERA, all those projects where all development work has been completed and sale/lease deeds of 60 per cent of apartments/houses/plots have been executed or where all development work has been completed and application has been filed with the competent authority for issue of completion certificate, will be considered as complete projects.

As per the UP Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Rules, 2016, notified on October 27, 2016, a housing project without an OC will also be considered an 'ongoing project' and then it will be mandatory for the developer to get the project registered under the new regulatory authority.

When queried, Noida Authority's Additional CEO Shishir Singh said: "If a builder allows people to live in incomplete buildings, this is a serious violation of law. We will examine all these cases."

Meanwhile, some builders in these areas are constructing residential societies that are not according to the layout maps that they got sanctioned.

"A prominent Noida builder has constructed additional 96 flats, while in another project, over 100 extra flats have been constructed against the sanctioned layout map," a senior UP government official said, requesting anonymity.

It is pertinent to mention that following a High Court order last month, the Greater Noida Authority had sealed "illegal" flats in Supertech's Czar Housing Society in Omicron Sector of Greater Noida. The Allahabad High Court had, on April 18, ordered sealing of more than 1,000 flats in the Supertech Czar residential project in Greater Noida as they were allegedly constructed without due approvals.

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