patna the real estate regulatory authority rerabihar will take the help of dms and state urban development and housing department in conducting a survey to get the exact data on the ongoing building construction projectsthe purpose is to identify the builders who have not applied for registration of their projects with the authority rerabihar chairman afzal amanullah said at a press conference on fridayregistration of new and ongoing projects with the authority is mandatory under the real estate regulation development act 2016 and the deadline for it in bihar was april 30though theres no mechanism to know the number of construction projects underway in bihar it is estimated there are more than a thousand of them amanullah said and added only 345 builders had however applied for registration with the authority so farnot a single developer or promoter from 30 of the states 38 districts has registered any project with the authority almost 90 of the applications received till april 30 are from patna alone while the rest are from muzaffarpur bhagalpur purnia gaya and begusarai among others amanullah saidof the 345 applications received online till april 30 hard copies of required documents were received for only 181 of them while 15 projects have been registered queries have been issued in connection with 40 other projectsthe rerabihar has also decided to penalise the developers and promoters for delayed registration in order to safeguard the interests of consumers we have decided to impose a fine of rs 1 lakh or 100 of the registration fee of the project whichever is higher on the projects being registered after april 30 rerabihar member rajiva bhushan sinha saidaccording to another member subodh kumar sinha even those applicants who filed applications online till april 30 but do not submit the hard copies of the required documents till may 11 will have to pay a penalty of rs 1 lakh or 100 of the registration fee