hyderabad at a time when telanganas real estate market is booming experts say there is a need to protect homebuyers from erring builders and agentshowever with a defunct real estate regulatory authority trera things have been difficultset up in 2017 in line with the rera act of 2016 to protect the interests of customers the body continues to be dysfunctional five years later the only major state apart from west bengal to remain noncompliant with no permanent authority tribunal dedicated chairman or even regular membersand the proof lies in the statewise rera status report available on the union ministry of housing and urban affairs mohua website it confirms that telangana still has only an interim authority that has so far disposed of zero rerarelated casesmembers of the central advisory council cac rera explain how this renders trera meaningless with no powers the rera act categorically directs state governments to appoint an authority within a period of one year from the date this act came into force given that period has lapsed even if a homebuyer now approaches trera with a complaint against a builderagent the latter can challenge it stating the authority is invalid said abhay upadhyay cac member based in kolkata he urged the local industry body to raise the issue with the central council so that it can intervene and start a dialogue with the telangana government the problem is the hyderabad industry itself is divided on the issue while one section wants tsrera to be strengthened another is comfortable with the way it is for various reasons it does not want to come out as a collective and demand for a permanent authority said an industry representative