lucknow almost six years after uttar pradesh real estate regulatory authority uprera came into existence to control the illpractices in the real estate sector and safeguard the rights of consumers it has settled close to 30500 cases however the homebuyers and developers still see scope for improvementspeaking at the new urban india transforming urban landscape conferencecumexpo at indira gandhi pratishthan on tuesday uprera chairperson rajiv kumar said uprera resolved 40 of the total complaints across the country even during pandemic we settled nearly 14000 cases out of 15000 by coordinating with developers homebuyers and using technologyover the years uprera has helped bridge the trust gap between developers and homebuyers he saidrs 150 crore was recovered against 1000 recovery certificates and the sum was transferred to the accounts of homebuyers similarly 342 projects were fined rs 17 crore for delayraunak group director rajan bandelkar who is also national real estate development council naredco president said the real estate market is no more dominated by developers but by consumers there are hardly any complaints from homebuyers for new projects but there is a need to bring government departments and authorities under rera act ambit to help the sector growconfederation of real estate developers association of india credai vicepresident manoj gaur said government agencies and departments like pollution control board labour department etc block timely completion of projects they often misuse their powers and need to be brought under rera act many developers have opened a reconciliation desk to resolve matters with homebuyers before taking it to reraappreciating uprera consumer activist abhay upadhyay said now there is fear among developers due to rera but still we witness cases of promoters handing over incomplete projects we need online monitoring of projects so that immediate action can be taken before its late