Dissatisfied home buyers decide to go ahead with protests on December 25, even as the CM promises 40,000 flats by year-end and another 40,000 by March 31.
UP CM in a meeting with home buyers at Amity University
UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath met home buyers in distress and lashed out at Noida Authority for its lapses.
After checking all the security measures across the city, Adityanath met hapless buyers at Amity University, where officials of all the three authorities - Noida Authority, Greater Noida Authority and Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority were present along with the heads of many home buyers associations.
During the meeting, the home buyers tabled their issues before the CM, and he made a note of them. He promised the buyers that 40,000 flats will be handed over to them by December 31, while another 40,000 will be handed over by March 31. He directed the three authorities to make a note of it.
Adityanath asked the authorities to draw up a list of defaulter builders, categorising them as per their position on the properties – firstly, those who will be able to deliver the flats on time, secondly, those who need help of co-developers to complete their projects and thirdly, those who won’t be able to complete their projects. This list is to be submitted to the three-minister panel to allow them to decide on which builders need help and builders against whom action ought to be taken.
However, the buyers were not satisfied with the promises made by the CM. According to members of the association, during the UP elections, the BJP candidates had promised flat buyers of GB Nagar that they would be given all possible support in securing possession of their homes. But, they alleged, since BJP’s win in the UP elections nothing has been done at the ground level for buyers.
“We have been hearing such promises for the past many years but no work has been done on the ground level. All these people just come and raise our hopes, but nothing is ever done. We have been left utterly hopeless,” said Shweta Bharti, general secretary, NEFOWA (Noida Extension Flat Owners Welfare Association).
On December 25, UP CM and Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Noida to inaugurate the Magenta Line metro. Home buyers of different projects in Noida, Greater Noida and Yamuna Expressway — such as Jaypee, Amrapali, Supertech, Unitech, Pan Oasis — have decided to protest against the government on the day at Film City in Sector 16A.
Ninety-four projects in Noida and around 190 projects in Greater Noida are stuck owing to financial reasons. In a high-level meeting held in September this year, UP chief minister had ordered officials to ensure that 50,000 home buyers got their homes in Noida and Greater Noida areas.
On December 4, the ministerial panel — during the course of a meeting with builders and officials of Noida Authority, Greater Noida Authority and Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (YEIDA) — declared that 32,500 flats would be delivered by the end of this month.
