T.V.Gopalakrishnan (Fortworth, Texas)
23 Aug, 2011 04:37 AM
The editorial is apt and timely and calls for an immediate action from authorities. The real estate sector needs a comprehensive law and an Ombudsman exclusively to protect the interets of home buyers. The corporates involved in real estate business have umpteen ways of extracting money from prospective buyers of properties and practically there is no accountability for the funds raised by them. Transparency in accounting and auditing is virtually absent and buyers have nowhere to look forward to register their complaints. Money is raised towards corpus funds without any standardised approach towards maintenance, funds for car parking are raised again without any standardised guidelines, terms and conditions are altered without the knowledge of customers, final terms included in the deeds are not maintained and undivided share of land included in the deed are subsequently sold without the knowleddge of customers,etc. are some of the very common mal practices the companies resort to. It is time an audit by a Govt appointed agency is conducted in all multinational companies who indulge in real estate business along with other business and mix up all accounts. Corruptive practices in multi national companies are perhaps worse compared to those in Government and needs to be closely monitored. It can help to bring down the real estate prices and minimise black money transactions also. Such checks and balances definitely bring some order in the transactions.
(This appeared ET E paper on 23rd august).
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