mumbai the mumbai grahak panchayat mgp has demanded that the state government set up the housing regulatory authority immediately mgp chairman sirish deshpande said there are everincreasing complaints of flat buyers in maharashtra against builders secondly with the passing of the real estate regulatory authority rera act by the centre the maharashtra housing regulatory act 2014 stands repealed the rera act came into force on may 1 but only with some sections as the others are yet to be gazetted as per the gazette notification sections 2 2039 4158 7178 and 8192 have come into force toi had reported flat buyers to be hit as centre fails to act may 4 that the centre had given state governments a year to establish the housing regulatory authority till then developers and builders need not register with the authority as section 4 of the rera act has not been notified deshpande said the act acknowledges that setting up of the regulatory authority would take time section 20 of the rera act mandates that the state governments designate any officer preferably the housing secretary as the regulatory authority as a stopgap arrangement said deshpande we wrote to the state government in march to use the provisions of this section and set up a regulatory authority he said vinod sampat an expert on cooperative laws said by notifying only certain sections of the rera act the centre has ensured the victory of builders tnn a senior housing department official said it was for the government to take a decision on whether it would appoint the housing secretary as a stopgap arrangement or go ahead and appoint the committee as a regulatory authority