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NOIDA: Developers of nearly 900 projects incomplete and under-construction that suffered due to the pandemic will be given an extension of six months for completion, Uttar Pradesh Real Estate Regulatory Authority (UP-Rera) secretary Rajesh Kumar Tyagi said on Monday.
The deadline extension was announced by the state government during the lockdown, but the policy initially covered only those projects that were due in 2020. However, Tyagi said builders of all projects that were under construction on March 26 last year or later will get the benefit, regardless of the scheduled year of completion.
Halt in construction activities across the city due to the lockdown announced in March last year led to a mass exodus of labourers. In Gautam Budh Nagar, which is a dense construction hub of realty projects, a few builders managed to retain only around 40,000 workers. Before the pandemic outbreak, the district had around four to five lakh labourers working at c
The group also distributes shoes among the needy. (Photo: Abhishek Anand / India Today)
A group of residents of high-rise apartments at Greater Noida West has been distributing blankets to the underprivileged in their nearby localities. The residents identify areas where underprivileged people stay at nights in this bone-chilling cold in the national capital region, and distribute blankets among them. We started this campaign after spotting many underprivileged people, including women and children, with not enough clothes to keep them warm. We raised this issue in WhatsApp groups and other social media platforms and many residents came forward to help them. So far, we have gifted blankets to over 150 people, said Manish Kumar, a resident of Supertech Ecovillage 1 of the area.
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