Planning authorities asked to inform ORERA about housing project approvals
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Bhubaneswar: The housing and urban development department has asked all the planning authorities, including Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation, to mandatorily inform Odisha Real Estate Regulatory Authority (ORERA) about the plan approvals they give to different housing and plotting projects.
This will enable ORERA to conduct necessary follow-ups on the developers' activities. The move came after Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while chairing a Pragati review meeting, asked the state govts to strengthen ORERA and ensure proper execution of its orders in the interest of homebuyers.
According to sources, the ORERA chairperson recently wrote to the chief secretary, mentioning an eight-point agenda to strengthen ORERA and this includes the intimation of plan approval by the planning authority to ensure necessary follow-ups with the developers by ORERA.
Following the recommendation, the chief secretary held a high-level meeting with the officials of the housing department recently to discuss the matter. After the deliberation, the state issued the direction to the department for intimation of the plan approval to the authority.
During the meeting, it was also decided that the new website of ORERA should be linked to the SUJOG portal of the govt for real-time monitoring and updates of the plan approval status.
The govt uses the SUJOG portal for providing online approval to different projects.
"The authority has made some recommendations to strengthen the operation of ORERA. Out of the given recommendations, discussion on two important matters was taken up and the directions were passed on to the urban development department accordingly," a senior ORERA official said.
ORERA recently revoked the registration certificate of a prominent housing project in the city after finding that the approach road to the project used by the developer actually belonged to the railways. Sources said that confusion occurred during the approval stage.
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