The recent observations of the Supreme Court of India on the functioning of Real Estate Regulatory Authority are indeed significant. When the highest court openly acknowledges gaps and failures in implementation, it signals that the system is not entirely insensitive. That is where hope lies.
That corruption, influence, and misuse of legal processes distort justice. When power and money override fairness, institutions lose credibility. Yet, it is equally true that systems do not collapse overnight—they weaken slowly when citizens disengage, when officials compromise, and when accountability becomes selective.
Ethics and Sanatan values cannot only be confined to books.Principles mean nothing unless they are lived in public life—by Legislators, Administrators, Judiciary, Professionals, Academicians, Businesses, and Citizens alike. A society cannot run on laws alone; it needs character. At the same time, one cannot underestimate the resilience of people. The fact that citizens continue to live, hope, work, and raise families despite injustice is not just a mystery—it is strength. It is also a reminder that reform is always possible because society has not given up.
What really needs to change
For the wonderful vision of “Viksit Bharat” to become real, three things must happen together:
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Institutional accountability
Every authority created by law must function for the purpose it was created—not as a procedural formality. Performance must be measurable and transparent.
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Speed and accessibility of justice
Laws like RERA were meant to give quick relief. If implementation becomes slow or biased, the very objective is defeated.
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Ethical leadership and civic pressure
Reform does not come only from within institutions—it also comes from citizens who question, document, vote, and persist
Will authorities introspect and act? Some will. Some won’t. Change will be uneven.
But history shows that when public awareness, judicial scrutiny, and civic insistence come together, reform does happen—sometimes slower than we want, but real nonetheless. Let noble thought translate into noble action.
This is not just a prayer—it is also a call to conscience for every institution and every citizen.
TVG Krishnan
(Personal Views)
( Modified version of this Comment appeared in Money Life dated 12/2/26 against the article "Better to abolish RERA,It only helps Builders.)
2 comments:
In the case of RERA, the main question is why a Central RERA and separate states' versions?
The answer lies in the fact that Contracts and Transfer of Property fall under the Concurrent List, while Land falls under the State List.
Therefore, the Central Government can only provide the Framework (The Master Act), while the States must provide the Rules (The Implementation).
Because states were given the power to draft their own "Rules", many states diluted the original intent of the Central Act to favor local interests.
It is time for the Supreme Court to stop watching from the sidelines. We need a landmark directive that harmonizes land laws across India, ending the regulatory confusion that leaves ordinary homebuyers at the mercy of varying state rules.
The proposed bill on the new Karnataka Apartment Ownership Act to fall line with RERA is yet to be implemented. Ad long as there is alleged nexus between ruling party and Real Estate mafia, nothing is going to change. The prosperity of the wicked and the poverty of the righteous will be pondered for eternity
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