Realtors’ unfulfilled promises: Capt Amarinder Singh asks Principal Secretary, Housing, to hold investigation

Tribune News Service

Mohali, August 5

Taking a serious notice of real estate developers not providing facilities promised to buyers in Mohali, Kharar, Kurali and New Chandigarh, Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh has handed over the investigation in the matter to the Principal Secretary, Housing and Urban Development Department.

In a letter to the CM, Lok Sabha MP from Anandpur Sahib and former Union Minister Manish Tewari had recently raised the issue of developer not fulfilling their obligations after selling plots and flats to people who invested their hard-earned savings.

In his reply to the MP, Capt Amarinder Singh said, “I have directed the Principal Secretary, Department of Housing and Urban Development, to look into the matter and submit a report in a fortnight.”

It is pertinent to mention here that residents of Mohali, Kharar, Kurali and New Chandigarh had apprised the MP of the problems they were facing at the hands of real estate developers, including lack of basic amenities.

Ten days after registering cases against 48 builders for raising illegal colonies in Kharar and Balongi areas, Mohali SSP Satinder Singh had on July 27 constituted a special investigating team (SIT) under SP (Rural) Ravjot Kaur Grewal to look into it.