Hundreds of homebuyers across residential projects in Noida and Greater Noida take out a protest march seeking possession of their homes “right now today”. The home buyers allege Noida is not acting against builders.
Noida Extension Flat Owners’ Main Association, NEFOMA, which is a group of home-buyers waiting for possession of their homes, on Sunday took out a protest march against the Central and State governments. They began the protest march from Noida Sector-15 metro station and reached Rajnigandha Chowk via Captain Vijayant Thapar Marg in the city.
Nearly one hundred home-buyers, waiting for getting possession of flats in various stalled housing projects in Noida and Greater Noida, raised slogan against the governments, builders and development authority. They also carried flash cards and banners urging the governments, builders and authority to stop playing politics over their misery. “We don’t need assurance and consideration, we want our homes today itself,” the protesters said and raised slogans against the BJP governments in Centre and in Uttar Pradesh.
An ex-army officer, Colonel R P Khanna, who booked flat in Aprapali Zodiac, a residential society in Sector-120, said that he along with family members have been residing in Noida in a rented house for a long time. “The builder is yet to give me my house that I booked,” he told City Spidey.
“I pay monthly rent to an owner from whom we had taken house on rent in Amrapali Platinum, another residential society in Sector-119. Initially, I had assumed that the builder would ready the flat within six months. But my assumption was wrong as the builder still has not made the flat livable. Now, development work on the site has stopped because of which possession is delayed,” he said.
There are hundreds like Col Khanna.
“I am not only the buyer, going through this problem. There are many others as well. There are housing projects, which are yet to begin. Buyers of these housing projects including of mine have lost trust on the property developers in these two cities. Now it is clear they had given faulty assurances. Same sort of assurances being given now are not going to solve our problems. We want our as soon as today itself. It is the developers’ headache and we did not care for them any longer. They should finish the remaining work at the housing projects site,” Khanna said echoing the sentiments of all the victims like him.
Annu Khan, president of NEFOMA, said all the protesters wanted to draw the governments’ attention towards this problem. “Now when thousands of home-buyers have been running pillar to post for getting possession of their homes, the development authorities have not initiated any action against the builder,” Khan said.
The officials are not cooperating with the buyers who are fighting for their just rights, Khan added.
