gurugramnoida haryana and uttar pradeshs rera rules leave a majority of ongoing real estate projects in ncr outside the ambit of the new real estate law with the number as high as 90 in gurgaon according to government and industry officialsthe figures from noida the city worst hit by delays in delivery of flats were not immediately available but industry watchers expect little difference with gurgaon because uttar pradesh and haryana have used the same yardstick for ongoing projects to be included in their real estate regulation and development act noida and greater noida together currently have 82 ongoing builder projects both states have decided to keep outside the purview of rera projects that have been issued or applied for occupancy certificates this is a significant difference from the central rera notified on may 1 this year that had completion certificates as the benchmark for exemptionin gurgaon for instance 90 of the estimated 17 lakh units flatshouses that are in various stages of construction or completion have either already received occupancy certificates or applied for it or have received partcompletion also an occupancy paper these will not be part of the haryana rera part completion does not mean the entire project is excluded from rera a tower still under construction will have to be registered afresh even if other towers in the project are completehomebuyers in both cities said they were unhappy at what they called a dilution of the act because the main problem here is delayed possession an occupancy certificate does not address that as ongoing projects where construction is complete but amenities arent can get occupancy papers buyers in these projects therefore cannot bank on rera for solutions similarly if a housing project has 20 towers of which three have occupancy papers those three towers will also not come under rera though amenities will be built collectively for the entire projectindustry and government sources in gurgaon said new projects where work has recently started mostly those launched in the last year and old projects abandoned midway because of a developer facing financial crunch will come under the haryana rera a homebuyers group in noida met mla pankaj singh to express their disappointment and seek a review of the rules before the act is finally notified the centre has asked all states to notify the act by july 31 haryanas cabinet cleared the rules on july 25 a large number of applications for occupancy has been made over the past month with the noida and greater noida authorities this means a large number of ongoing apartments will fail to reap the benefit of rera as these projects would not be legally required to register this leaves buyers in a compromised state said rashesh purohit founder ncr homebuyers associationgaurav prakash a homebuyer in new gurgaon added rera was introduced to address the pain of homebuyers so how can the government lose sight of it why replace completion certificate with ocbut the ground reality is such that this may have