With Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh on Monday launching the portalwww.hprera.in for registration, Himachal Pradesh has become among a few states in the country to start the registration work of promoters and estate agents online.

"It has been done to give seamless, transparent and efficient services to the promoters and buyers," an official said.

The Himachal Cabinet in its meeting held on August 5 approved the HP Real Estate (Regulation and Development Rules), 2017. The web portal which has been developed for registration of promoters and estate agents will also have link for making complaints against such developers who fail to discharge their responsibility as per law.

Urban Development Minister, Sudhir Sharma said that the department of HP Town and Country Planning would ensure that all the promoters were registered with the Director, TCP, who has been nominated as designated officer, for Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA). All promoters are required themselves to be registered with RERA within 30 days and the general public has been advised not to buy any plot or apartment or flat from any developer who is not registered with RERA.

The Minister said RERA aims to make the registration of real estate project compulsory besides imposing liability on the promoter to pay such compensation to the allottees in the manner as provided in the Act.

The Real Estate Regulation  and Development Act, 2016 provides to impose an obligation upon the promoter not to book sell or offer for sale, or invite persons to purchase any plot, apartment of building, as the case may be, in any real estate project without registering the real estate project with the Authority.