After mid-day prominently highlighted the inordinate delay in the hearings at MahaRERA, Forum for People’s Collective Efforts (FPCE) which is the member of Central Advisory Council (CAC)-RERA has sought the intervention of the Union housing ministry in this regard. The mid-day news report dated August 9, exposed the failure to get subsequent hearings if litigants don’t heed to the MahaRERA’s direction for conciliation in the first hearing.

Abhay Upadhyay, president of FPCE, in his letter (copy with this paper) has stated: “Not only MahaRERA has without authority constituted a conciliation forum but it is also part of the forum as MahaRERA secretary is its chairperson. The Section 32 of the Act doesn’t give any scope to interpret that MahaRERA can either constitute a forum or become part of it. Needless to say that this has been done under influence and for the benefit of the builders which becomes very clear when you see the composition of the conciliation forum of MahaRERA,” Upadhyay, stated in his letter.