Noida Authority to tweak land policy for group housing | Noida News

Noida Authority CEO Ritu Maheshwari

NOIDA: The Noida Authority is planning to alter its land allocation coverage for group housing societies, making it necessary for builders to pay the whole lease quantity upfront to it. Till now, builders have been making funds in instalments.
Builders within the metropolis that has seen a ballooning pattern of unfinished tasks and mounting dues owed by builders won't be allotted the land till they pay 100% of the quantity to the authority, officers mentioned on Sunday.
The proposal is more likely to be offered on the subsequent board assembly of the authority. The date is but to be finalised.
Underneath the present coverage, builders needed to pay only a 40% quantity for the land leased initially and the remaining in instalments through the years.
As soon as the decision is authorised by the board and carried out, builders will be unable to depart the tasks incomplete halfway or divert funds since they might have already invested a sizeable quantity as a part of the authority's dues, officers of the planning division informed TOI.
The choice will assist homebuyers get possession of their flats in time. “They needn't battle to get the registry achieved,” an official mentioned on the situation of anonymity. For town, the transfer will cut back the burden of instances arising out of tasks mired in insolvency proceedings, the official added.
“The authority has already made adjustments within the land allotment coverage for industrial and residential plots. It's now pondering of modifying its coverage for group housing class additionally and a proposal might be mentioned within the subsequent board assembly to allot land after taking the overall quantity quite than in instalments,” mentioned Noida Authority CEO Ritu Maheshwari. The CEO was referring to the adjustments made by the authority this 12 months. Builders who've been allotted industrial plots will even must make the whole cost on the time of allotment. They needed to pay the quantity in instalments earlier. For residential plots, builders now have a 12 months to deposit the whole cost as a substitute of the three years earlier than.
TOI had reported on Could 19 that the authority was contemplating passing a decision to take the complete quantity for land lease from builders. The shift in stand was prompted after the Supreme Court docket dominated final week that the Authority might be given an operational creditor standing, as a substitute of the monetary creditor, taking away a few of its powers within the decision course of after insolvency. At current, builders of housing societies owe Rs 20,000 crore in dues to the authority. Greater than 50,000 homebuyers are but to get their flats registered.
A report by the Comptroller and Auditor Normal of India (CAG) final 12 months had highlighted lacuna within the metropolis's coverage, stating how builders had taken benefit of the relaxed circumstances for buying land. From 2005 to 2018, Noida allotted 24 schemes for land spanning throughout 71.03 lakh sqm to builders for group housing tasks. Dues for these schemes quantity to Rs 20,000 crore now.
Throughout the identical interval, 1.3 lakh flats have been sanctioned however solely 72,697 items have been accomplished until March 2020.A majority of allotments have been additionally given until 2010-11. Regardless of a decade having passed by, 57,308 flats are but to be accomplished.
Till 2006, the authority used to demand an preliminary cost of 40% for the land leased. This was lowered to twenty% from 2008 and additional as much as 10% from 2009. In 2017, Noida once more went again to the 40% cost however many of the land for housing tasks had been allotted earlier, the CAG mentioned.
Authorized specialists imagine that the choice, if cleared, is a major step. “Noida is without doubt one of the few authorities that allot land on an instalment foundation. That is additionally town the place homebuyers run from pillar to submit in getting possession of flats. It is a much-needed step to place the onus on builders to finish the challenge,” mentioned Supreme Court docket lawyer Prashant Kanha.