February 5, 2024:Â The Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA) of Himachal Pradesh has said that once drawings sanctioned for a housing project are obtained, their renewal is not mandatory. This was revealed by RERA Himachal Pradesh chairman Shrikant Baldi, at the second day of the 16th Naredco National Convention, Fostering Trust with Transparency; Pathway 2047, held on February 3. He added that the government of Himachal had already extended such a deadline from the earlier period of 3 years to 5 years some time back.
Given the tempo and enthusiasm with which the real estate sector has begun to grow at a rate of approximately 10 percent per annum in the recent past, the RERA of Himachal Pradesh approached its government and succeeded in persuading it to make the validity of once sanctioned drawings for real estate and housing projects an endless period of time, said Baldi.
Baldi, who is also the president of the All-India forum of the RERA, further informed that this was the demand of developers in general and other stakeholders, and the sustainability limit for sanctioned drawings was extended for a great deal of period for a win-win situation. The government of the state permitted its RERA to undertake the proposed move incorporating necessary changes in the state’s town planning statutes.
The chairman also informed that the RERA of the state does not accept physical documents for registering any housing and real estate projects, nor does it entertain any requests for complaint lodging by any stakeholders in Real Estate. Instead, it entertains compliments and complaints online to ensure that transparency is strictly observed in every format through which real estate activities are permitted in the state.
According to him, the aforementioned steps are mooted at the all-India level because real estate, in general, has started looking up from the level of 7% last year to that of 7.3% at present. Similarly, investors in this sector are upbeat given its growth, with bank credit showing an upward trend for the sector from 7.3% of the national GDP in the last year to that of 8.7%.
In his welcome remarks, President Naredco G Hari Babu pointed out that real estate and construction activities have to be given preferential treatment across the country because they contribute massively to the national GDP and national growth, with a particular focus on employment.
Babu, however, pointed out that approximately Rs 1 lakh 50 thousand crore has been deposited with various governments by real estate developers throughout the country as labour cess. The objective of creating such a fund was to be utilized for the benefit of their labor and their wards, as each developer is required to contribute 1% of the project cost to the respective state government. However, the fund is hardly serving the stated objective, and the money is languishing. Therefore, steps are needed to utilise this fund.
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