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*Statutory Warning (Waidhanik Ishara)!
Please before you start reading, this is a Prank Writeup or say
April-Fool type stuff though somethings are facts also & take this sharing
as a Black Humour for real estate!
“It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of
vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion” … William Inge.
William
Motter Inge was an American playwright and novelist, whose works typically
feature solitary protagonists encumbered with relations. In the early 1950s he
had a string of memorable Broadway productions, including Picnic, which earned
him a Pulitzer Prize. Well, the occasion is New Year, the subject is resolution
for New Year & the front is real estate, then above words of Inge, I found
most apt though a bit bitter! One more year we left behind & on the
background of a world-wide epidemic which is still very much around but we have
learned to live with it (at present at least) this new year not just real
estate but the entire world is looking at with great hope! And on such
background, I sleep on the 31st Dec night (No party, I like to
wake up fresh on every day morn especially on 1st Jan) with the
thoughts of what I should be following as resolution as a builder (and engineer
too) as well what other entities related to real estate can have their
resolution for real estate & with these thoughts I dozed off. And when I
woke up on the 1st of Jan 2023 morning which happened to be a
Sunday, an excuse for many to start their resolution from Monday, first I went
for a newspaper pile on the table (old habits die hard) & the head line on
the front page caught my eyes & brain’s attention too!
The head
news was about the resolution of the Central Govt (Grand Parents, if State govt
is Mai Baap) for streamlining real estate in the country & for that they
have announced to give real estate status to that of an industry. And in
addition, the news also said that a nation level committee formation which will
have its sub committees at State & at City level too, at cities with
population above 30 lakhs. These committees are supposed to study issues (read
as problems) in-front of the real estate industry, & come up with the
solutions & action plan in a time bound program of three months from 1st Jan
23. This report/ outcome of all State level committees will be submitted to a
four-member apex committee with Finance Minister, Urban Dev Minister &
Housing Minister as members, headed by Hon PM himself, which will then
summarise & decide final policy for real estate of the country! This real
estate policy will cover all the black spots of industry such as income tax on
ready but unsold inventory, rationalizing GST on raw materials, land parcels as
well on homes in making & focus on promoting real estate for investment to
foreign investors. There will be an announcement of One Window Clearance for
all real estate proposals & local level only, which has been announced by
the Central Govt Spokesperson!
When I
turned the front page of the newspaper to the third page covering State news,
there was a second surprise (sweet one) & it was announcements from the
State CM who holds Urban Development Charge also. It's been said that in the
new year State’s priority will be housing for all & for that apart from the
State level committee mandatory by Central Govt, the State govt also will
proactively work for making real estate a business-friendly industry &
target will be anybody can build his own home too! That way anybody can become
a builder right now also but here after there will be registration for becoming
a real estate firm & norms will be framed for registration so there will be
only professionally qualified people in the business! At the same time Hon CM
ordered all the local governing bodies such as PMC, PMRDA etc to frame &
publish respective Development Plans within a fixed time span or else be ready
for punishment for blocking the revenue of the State. The State govt will also
be looking seriously towards other depts which are allied partners with UD dept
for real estate such as Public Works regarding road making, Power dept for
power supply, Irrigation/ Water for water supply & Revenue dept for city
survey & land records. For any property in the State demarcation will be
made by drone & will be made available on Net & no physical survey will
be required is decided & this too in time bond program. Registration (stamp
duty) dept has been allocated with budget for their Server systems as well
proper infrastructure will be made available to all registration offices across
the State for the people visiting these offices for registration & they
will be treated the way clients are treated in private establishments i.e.,
with respect & professionally. And a Principal Secretary rank officer post
has been created to monitor all these services which will be reporting to Hon
CM.
The UD
dept at State decided to form a three-minister committee to liaison with
Central Govt especially Defence Ministry for their clashes with Urban Planning
at local level for defence establishments across the State. Within three month
a policy is decided to form for developments along the defence establishments
so that once for all their norms will be frozen & this committee is
supposed to have experts from the private sector, planners also on it which
will submit its outcome to the apex committee by Central Govt. In this calendar
year every single norm related to urban development around & in defence
establishments in the State will be finalized forever is what is assured by the
State govt! At the same time water, power, drainage lines, roads are considered
as topmost priority for real estate growth & a budget has been allocated
for every town & city for these aspects by which no private developer has
to take burden of such basic infrastructure for developing his or her project.
Environmental NOC has been made Mandatory for Development Plans itself &
only if the use of the land is deviating from the use in DP, then the
Environment NOC will be necessary for the individual project! At the same time
Environment NOC will be focused on the damage of the environment if any going
to cause due to the project than focusing on the infra-available to the project
which will be sole responsibility of the local body only. Most importantly UD
ministry announced that if any project has been sanctioned with due process
from the local body, unless & until a valid reason is there on record, in
no case stop work notice will be given to such project just because some other dept
has raised an objection regarding the project!
With all
these shocks (pleasant ones), one more news caught my attention & it was
about Home Minister’s statement, which said in case of site accident first a
technical committee permanently in existence with Hon Collector as Chairman
will investigate the accident matter & in maximum fifteen days’ time will
produce its outcome & then only the local police should book the case or
frame charges against the respective culprits involved in the accident case. At
the same time till such a report is on record there should not be any stop work
issued for the said project. And the Home Minister also commented about the
illegal constructions issue, assuring criminal cases will be filed on every
person irrespective of his position, for his or her involvement in building
illegal buildings as well full police protection will be given to local body
staff for demolition of such illegal construction!
And
finally when I opened page 5 of newspaper which covers local i.e. city news
then my surprise quota was full really as its said the local civic bodies which
includes PMC, PCMC, PMRDA has jointly issued a circular saying from today there
will be single window sanction for entire Pune region & plans or proposals
of new projects can be submitted at any three of above local bodies &
entire scrutiny will be done online & faceless except submission of
necessary legal documents & all the NOC’s as well challans will be handled
from one window by the concerned civic body so neither architects nor the
builder’s firm has to run from table to table for the individual dept’s nocs’
such as drainage, road, garden or fire! On top of that all the three civic
bodies said they will be conducting monthly review meetings with the
representatives of the builder’s association such as CREDAI & MBVA along
with the Architect's association for clearing individual or policy issues
necessary for smooth sanction process of building permission!
Oh yes,
& on the Business page (which I rarely read) there was news about a
statement from RBI Governor which said, finance that too on lower interest
rates to the real estate projects will be made a priority by all the
nationalized as well private banks & housing will be considered as
infrastructure activity for funding!
After
reading all these news, I put down the newspaper & opened the WhatsApp to
check group reactions on CREDAI group (builders association) for such news
& to my surprise the group was also
flooded with resolutions from most of the builders & each was saying that
his or her firm will follow every good practice the business will be customer
centric only. Transparency won’t be a just word hereafter by the builders but
will be the action especially while dealing with clients. Most builders have
further resolved that they will be punctual in communication with not just
clients but with vendors & will give time to sort out their contractor’s as
well supplier’s issues such as timely payment!
After
going through all these I really felt dizzy as to how much good surprises a
human mind can take in one day & more than that I wondered what I should
write here after regarding issues of real estate & what’s there for now to
take-up as a resolution for the new year ahead by myself as a
builder! Just then the alarm clock beside my
bed rang loudly to make me awake from my sleep & I opened up news-paper
& the headline said, defence ministry has further reduced their no development boundary limit
to 50 m from 10 m from their premise boundaries & this will be a big
problem for development of the new projects in the city; when those words hit
my brain, I realized what I have shared above was a dream & I am back in
the real world now! I
felt actually happy that there is still a lot for me to write about real estate
& for me to make resolutions to make this industry better by my own
behaviour, at least that much I can do by myself to make the dream a reality,
right? Happy New Year friends, with this note!
-
Sanjay
Deshpande
Sanjeevani Dev.
Please view my sharing about real estate in Pune at
You Tube link below..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4xX7eopH5o&t=5s
Please do visit my blog links below to read about real estate & home
buying!
https://visonoflife.blogspot.com/2021/09/choosing-right-home.html
http://jivnachadrushtikon.blogspot.com/2021/09/blog-post_21.html
Creating Togetherness; team Sanjeevani Way (Click link below)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/65629150@N06/albums/72157627904681345
For any of your complaints about city, log in at link below
www.punecorporation.org
Take your issues to Hon PM at link below..
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May all your dreams come true !!! Nice blog
ReplyDeleteThanks pushkaraj, amen :)
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