Rajasthan

• 28 Apr 2023

Rajasthan Housing Board got National Award for Real Estate

Why in News?

On 26 April 2023, a central government agency named the National Real Estate Development Council (NAREDCO) presented the National Real Estate Award to Rajasthan Awasan Mandal.

Key Points:

• Rajan Bandelkar, National President, National Real Estate Development Council and Anand Kumar, Chairman, RERA Delhi and senior IAS Anand Kumar conferred this honour on Rajasthan Housing Commissioner Pawan Arora at a national level function.
• Rajasthan Housing Board was awarded this important honour for registering the maximum number of housing projects in the country under RERA, selling a maximum number of houses and doing excellent work in the field of real estate.
• It is known that the award was to be given to Mandal by Union Housing Minister Hardeep Puri, but he could not attend the program due to the Prime Minister's Review Meeting.
• Earlier in the function, Rajasthan Housing Commissioner was specially invited for a panel discussion on the topic 'Real Estate in the Era of RERA'. The Housing Commissioner was also honoured on this platform.
• Housing Commissioner Pawan Arora said on the occasion that RERA registration in houses works like ISI mark. He said that RERA instils confidence in the common man and the buyer towards the developer and builder and brings assurance of providing the best quality housing in a stipulated time frame.
• The Housing Commissioner said that Rajasthan Housing Board has become the biggest organization to register 101 projects RERA numbers. He said that usually government agencies avoid RERA registration, but Mandal has got all the projects registered with RERA for the sake of the confidence of the customers.
• It is worth mentioning that in the last 4 years under the leadership of Housing Commissioner Pawan Arora, the board has received a total of 15 awards. These include World Book of Records in house sales, Scotch Award-2021, Award of Excellence, Honor by National Real Estate Development Council, National Housing Award, I.B.C. and prestigious awards like 'Star of Governance-Gold Award'.