new delhi the supreme court on monday asked chief secretaries of all the states to respond to the queries raised by the centre on implementation of real estate regulation and development rera act 2016 rules in their jurisdictiona bench of justices dy chandrachud and surya kant said that in march 2022 the centre has written to all the states seeking certain information with regard to the agreement of sales rules notified under the rera act and their compliance but only five states have so far responded to itin order to facilitate the exercise carried out by the union of india we direct all the chief secretaries to respond to the queries raised with rera rules on or before may 15 the bench saidit added that additional solicitor general aishwarya bhati and amicus curiae devashish bharuka will file a status report after receiving all the relevant information from the statesthe bench posted the matter for further hearing in the third week of julyat the outset the bench asked amicus about the status of the report to which he said that they have received some responses from the state governments and some deviations were found and he has asked for the reasons for such deviationshe said that so far only five states have responded to the queries raised by the centre with regard to the rera rulesthe bench said it is posting the matter for further hearing after the summer vacation and till then more responses from states will comeit said that once the report is prepared it will direct the union ministry of housing and urban affairs to upload it on its websitebhati assured that it will be doneon february 14 the top court directed the centre to examine whether the rules framed by various states under rera act are in conformity and subserve the interest of home buyersit had given three months to the centre to examine if there are any deviations in the rules framed by the states to the rules framed by the centre in 2016 and to place the report by the first week of may 2022it had appointed advocate devashish bharuka as amicus curiae in the plea by advocate ashwini upadhyay seeking implementation of a builderbuyer agreement to safeguard the interest of home buyers and requested him to assist the union ministry of housing and urban affairs to examine the rules framed by the statesthe top court noted that the central government shared the draft agreement for sale in 2016 after the enactment of rera with all the states and union territories and currently west bengal jammu and kashmir and some northeastern states are yet to notify the rulesbhati had earlier said that the rules have been framed by the central government and many states have notified them of some changes keeping in mind the local conditionsthe top court had said that there may be some local conditions that need to be taken care of by the states but most of the rules should be in