thiruvananthapuram three months after the state got an interim real estate regulatory authority the local selfgovernment lsg department has appointed t mithra who is now the additional secretary of the department as the new interim authority the move gives clear hints that the state may have to wait to get a fullfledged regulatory authorityas per the information collected through right to information rti rera rules were still being drafted lsg minister k t jaleel had claimed that it was in the final stage though details regarding the number of complaints and registrations received by the interim authority between march and june were also sought but lsgd evaded the querysources said that the interim authority has been set up as a perfunctory step and no serious activity was carried out under itmithra succeeds b ashok who is being transferred the government had appointed ashok urban affairs secretary as the interim regulatory authority in march after kerala real estate regulation and development act krera 2015 was repealed to enforce the central act real estate regulation and development act 2016 rerathe interim regulatory authority was established based on section 20 of rera 2016 as per the section the government can establish an authority to exercise the powers conferred on it and to perform the functions assigned to it under rera it also says that until the establishment of a regulatory authority the government shall by order designate any regulatory authority or any officer preferably the secretary of the department dealing with housing as the regulatory authoritythe government had repealed krera citing that it did not protect the interests of consumers and that many of its provisions are aimed at safeguarding builderskerala is one of the eight states in the country that has failed to notify the real estate regulation rules on time and establish a web portal as per the data available with ministry of housing and urban affairs there were 76044 companies operating in the real estate sector in the country as in 2016 of which 1270 companies were in keralathe order issued in march had cited that the decision to have an interim body was in the wake of increase in complaints and litigations in the absence of a regulatory authority