chennai developers are complaining that their projects are delayed as staff shortage has hit registration of housing projects with the tamil nadu real estate regulatory authority tnrera the rera act mandates registration of all ongoing housing projects with a minimum of eight units and 5000 square feet including housing layouts meant for sale following concerns over lack of staf slowing work the real estate regulator is formalising service rules to appoint permanent workersaccording to industry sources registration of housing projects with tnrera consumes a minimum of two months rera registration is crucial because housing projects would qualify for loans only after nod from the tnrera moreover housing units cannot be publicised or sold to customers in the absence of the rera registration number a developer who preferred to stay anonymous said we have done three registrations in the last two years and acute shortage of staff is affecting speedy disposal of applications another developer engaged in construction of commercial office spaces saidtnreras registration dipped this year with 256 housing projectsunder its ambit till september 4 while 380 projects were registered during the corresponding period of 2018 though tnrera has 26 sanctioned posts it hardly has a handful of workers on payrolls with retired officials from the chennai metropolitan development authority being appointed in senior positions confederation of real estate developers association of india credai tn chairman s sridharan said the developers body got complaints from their members over delay in registrations with the tnrera the authority must fix a deadline for registrations he said k gnanadesikan chairperson of tnrera said incomplete applications which is a lacuna on part of developers were the main reason for delays moreover there is no dip in registrations because we are receiving fewer number of applications this year compared to 2018 so far more than 1100 projects have been registered across tn since the inception of tnrera in june 2017 he added