News: Over 75% of State RERAs Skip Annual Reports: FPCE-13-02-2026

More than 75% of state real estate regulators have never published annual reports, have stopped doing so or are behind schedule, the Forum for People’s Collective Efforts (FPCE), a homebuyers’ body, said on February 13, alleging a breach of Section 78 of the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016.

According to the forum, seven major states have not published a single report since RERA came into force; it named Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Goa. Nine states that began publishing have discontinued, including Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Telangana. This is despite clear statutory duties and repeated directives from the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, it said. The claims have not been independently confirmed by the ministry or state regulators.

FPCE wants the ministry to issue fresh directions to all authorities to publish reports in the prescribed format and to press state governments to use Sections 82 and 83 of the Act against those that do not. It also proposed a new section empowering the Centre to remove an authority or its members for disobeying central directions.

Annual reports are meant to give a full account of an authority’s work over a financial year, covering project registrations, complaints, completion status, enforcement of orders and action against defaulting developers. FPCE said the data matters to homebuyers judging the system’s credibility and to state and central governments framing policy, incentive schemes and tax measures.

Without reliable data, the forum said, awareness programmes create the false impression that RERA registration guarantees timely completion and promised amenities, and buyers are being misled in an organised way.

President Abhay Upadhyay said that unless credible data shows the sector has improved on delivery, fairness and keeping promises, "we are merely firing in the air". RERA, he said, has become a badge of honour that lets builders sell projects without responsibility under the Act.

The body cited the Amitabh Kant Committee Report, which recorded about 4.12 lakh stressed dwelling units nationwide in legacy stalled projects, 2.40 lakh of them in NCR, with a project value impact of about Rs 4.08 lakh crore. That failure happened despite a booming sector before RERA.

Upadhyay warned that tracking only registrations and not completions invites a repeat, with another committee reporting a new set of stalled projects in five or ten years. What counts, he said, is how many projects are finished on time with the promised facilities.