patna registration of real estate projects and real estate agents is going on at a snails pace in the state it has been five months since the fullfledged real estate regulatory authority rera came into effect in the state but only 140 ongoing projects and 10 real estate agents have so far procured licences under section 3 of the real estate regulation and development act 2016according to rerabihar officials around 626 builders and promoters have applied for registration of their ongoing projects since aprilrajiva bhushan sinha a rerabihar member said the main reason behind slow processing of real estate projects was shortage of manpower shortage of staff at rerabihar has led to delay in scrutiny of application forms submitted by the builders and promoters rerabihar chairman afzal amanullah has written several times to the urban development and housing department to recruit of more staff for office work but to no avail he saidamanullah said the authority had submitted the last proposal to the state government for staff recruitment in april i hope that the proposal will be approved in the next state cabinet meeting he saidamanullah added the most timetaking job is scrutiny of application forms which are full of discrepancies the builders and promoters are providing wrong details regarding finance type of project and commencement of the project some of them have submitted incomplete and fake documents rerabihar is functioning with just seven staff including two members in most cases the staff visit the construction sites to verify the authenticity of information he saidmany builders and promoters apply for new projects however upon physical verification of their projects it is found that the projects are halfdone and the builders are already getting income from them amanullah addedrerabihar is also planning to develop its website and rope in a private company to build a database of ongoing projects in the state the authority has started collecting information from urban local bodies and development authorities about the ongoing real estate projects under their respective jurisdictions