In a letter addressed to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, the Forum for People’s Collective Efforts (FPCE) has raised a fresh set of demands for the proper implementation of the Real Estate Regulatory Act (RERA) in the state.
The demands include repealing the UP state rules for RERA, formation of a permanent RERA Authority for the state, setting up a local RERA office for the Noida-Ghaziabad area and making the required changes in the UP RERA website.
The FPCE was formed by the members and patrons of Fight For RERA, a homebuyers' movement for the Real Estate Regulatory Act. In 2017, builders had petitioned the high courts of various states to terminate RERA, citing it as unconstitutional. The Supreme Court had later asked the Bombay High Court to club all petitions together and take a decision on them. This also created the need for a unified body of homebuyers. And thus FPCE was formed to uphold the plea of homebuyers against the builders.
Speaking to City Spidey, TP Tyagi, vice-president of FPCE, said that although RERA was implemented in the state, it was done in a half-hearted manner that failed to fully address the issues of homebuyers. “The state governments, both the current and the previous, have left out several provisions of the Act that are necessary for safeguarding the interests of homebuyers,” Tyagi said.
Abhay Upadhyay, president of FPCE and a founding member of Fight For RERA, told City Spidey that now the aim was to ensure proper implementation at the state level. “Our first demand was that RERA be passed by the Centre. After it was passed, various states made their own changes, many of which were against the welfare of buyers. Hence we are now concentrating on state-level implementation. If letters don’t work, we will meet the state authorities in person,” Upadhyay added.
