All the political parties while attracting the voters promise to provide them the basic amenities of life, that is, food, clothing and a decent home. Given the vast expanse and dense population in India, it is an impossible task for the government to build homes for all single-handedly. This paves the way for a new player, real estate companies, and government entities like MHADA to make homes to accommodate the rising population in urban centres. It is required by the private builders to get the proposal sanctioned by various important authorities and complete the construction as per the government norms.
As people pump in their hard-earned money to buy homes, it is the responsibility of the government and builders to serve hand in hand while keeping interest of people in mind. To avoid any mishappening and accidents, the government needs to devise some safety norms and builders have to work as per those.
A number of incidents have happened in recent times where buildings have collapsed, as the norms were not followed by the builders, resulting in the monetary loss and deaths of many people who were merely the victims’ corruption.
Even the media reports fail to show the plight of victims as the government and builders keep on blaming each other for incidents.
Fearing protests and opposition from all fronts, governments suspend some officers as a formality to depict their seriousness. Later, as the case dies a natural death, those officers are reinstated.
Many experts even blame buyers of not conduction proper inquiries of a housing project, builder’s profile, etc. before finalising the home. Even those who try to investigate the credibility of builders are satisfied with the false claims made by builders to attract buyers.
Even though the government has different legal, technical and inspection teams to monitor proposals and pass building plans submitted by builders and the government gets stamp duty, VAT, service tax, registration tax and development tax from home buyers, which has to be utilised for protecting the interest of buyer, corrupt and greedy officials pass defaulted projects to make money
Regarding the wrong practices, the government should punish those who violate building norms, ignore safety norms and cheat buyers. In addition, both builders and government have be held accountable while building homes for the general public