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The Supreme Court of India has directed the formation of a one-member independent committee to examine a long-pending housing project in Greater Noida, near Delhi. The project, allotted in 2004 to Golf Course Sahkari Awas Samiti (earlier JP Greens Employees Sahkari Awas Samiti) by the Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority (GNIDA), has left hundreds of allottees waiting nearly two decades. A former judge of the Allahabad High Court has been appointed to head the committee, which must report within four months. The panel is tasked with identifying genuine allottees, restoring the lease where possible, and charting a time-bound completion strategy.
The Supreme Court has stepped in to resolve a housing dispute in Greater Noida involving the Golf Course Sahkari Awas Samiti and the Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority (GNIDA). It formed a one-judge committee, led by retired Allahabad High Court judge Pankaj Naqvi, to conduct a detailed inquiry into the stalled project and recommend a roadmap for its completion Advertisement
The matter affects hundreds of people who have been waiting for their flats for nearly 20 years. The court observed that these allottees have endured 'immense hardship, apart from losing their hard-earned money' due to administrative delays and litigation dragging on.
The project in question was allotted by GNIDA in 2004 to the housing cooperative (formerly JP Greens Employees Sahkari Awas Samiti) for developing plot No. 7 in Sector PI-2, Greater Noida, measuring 10,000 sq m. It was to comprise four towers with about 140 flats and two shops under the name 'Shiv Kala Charms'. The construction was entrusted to Shiv Kala Developers Private Limited, with payments to GNIDA having stopped in 2007. The lease deed was cancelled on 9 September 2011 after repeated defaults.
The Supreme Court directed the committee to scrutinise all relevant records agreements, correspondences, approvals, affidavits and identify the genuine allottees. It also directed the committee to work with GNIDA to explore restoration of the lease, either fully or partially, once dues are paid. The panel is to propose a fair mechanism for payment of outstanding land dues by the allottees and prepare a detailed plan, in consultation with all stakeholders, for completing the housing project in a time-bound manner.
The court ordered cooperation from the Uttar Pradesh government, the housing commissioner of the Awas Evam Vikas Parishad, the district magistrate of Gautam Buddh Nagar, GNIDA and all the banks involved. The committee has been asked to submit its report within four months from the start of its work. An honourarium of INR 15 lakh will be paid to the committee chair in three equal installments over the four-month period.
The lead petition was filed by Ravi Prakash Srivastava and others against a 2016 order of the Allahabad High Court, which had disposed of the allottees' petition without granting substantive relief. The cooperative had sought restoration of the lease that was cancelled in 2011, which had stalled the construction.
Source PTI
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