The Forum for People’s Collective Effort – Karnataka has announced a protest in the city on May 18 against ineffective implementation of the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016 in the State.
The Hindu had recently reported on the slow progress of action on complaints made by home buyers against developers. M.S. Shankar of the forum alleged that Karnataka Real Estate Regulatory Authority (K-RERA) has been very lenient on builders and developers.
“The good thing is that around 90% of the judgments are in the favour of buyers, but the problem is with the implementation of judgments. Builders are not honouring K-RERA judgments. Execution is pending in almost 80% of the cases,” he said.
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The forum also expressed concern over the lack of progress in bringing unregistered projects under the RERA net despite repeated complaints. A total of 1,069 projects are still unregistered in spite of being reported by buyers.
The number of complaints pending before K-RERA is 2,372. “We have planned a demonstration to reach out to K-RERA and register our protest against poor enforcement of the RERA Act in the State and lenient view the authority has been taking on errant builders and developers, and also to demand speeding up of enforcement of K-RERA judgments,” the forum said in a statement.