chennai two homebuyers approached the tamil nadu real estate regulatory authority tnrera against a leading developer who failing to deliver their apartments on time it is likely to be the first such inquiry after tamil nadu notified the rules for the centres real estate regulation development act 2016 in june this year the ambitious act was framed to weed out the flybynight promoters and safeguard interests of consumers the state housing secretary and the interim chairman of the tnrera will hold an inquiry over the grievance of the buyers next weekofficial sources said the two complaints were pertaining to a developer who had housing projects near kalpakkam on east coast road and pondur around sriperumpudur the two homebuyers have registered a complaint that the developer has not completed the project and abandoned it midway the complainants have paid more than 50 of the total cost of the apartments an official privy to developments told toithe developers housing projects does not figure in the list of ongoing projects that were exempted from the purview of rera the construction for these projects that began in 201011 was supposed to be completed by 2013 but the projects are incomplete as per the complainant the official saidon an average tnrera receives 15 complaints from dissatisfied consumers every week most of the grievances pertain to delay by promoters in delivering projects but a majority of these complaints are made over phone as per the act complaints should be filed using a prescribed format so far only these two complainants have been formally registered the official said sources said that an adjudicating officer from the legal fraternity would be soon appointed for looking into issues pertaining to compensation for buyers