Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA) chairman Anthony de Sa said Madhya Pradesh has become the first State in the country to extend the applicability of Real Estate Act to the entire State.
Earlier, projects only in the 153 planning areas were required to be registered with RERA. In an important decision, the RERA has decided to extend the requirement to non-planning areas also, thus bringing the entire State under the purview of the Act.
RERA was receiving information from various sources that various residential and commercial complexes were being constructed in non-planning areas also, but their allottees could not avail of protection under the new Act on the grounds that Act was initially applicable only to those projects situated in planning areas.
Anthony de Sa said that an allottee cannot be denied protection of the Act merely on the pretext that a project has been developed in a non-planning area. Such classification would be unjust and discriminatory.
The RERA has extended benefits of the Act uniformly to all citizens of the State, irrespective of whether the project is being developed in planning or non-planning area. Now onwards, projects coming up anywhere in the State will have to be registered with the RERA and allottees of such project will get all the protection available under the Act.