Developers in NCR to resume construction work
Developers in NCR are ready to resume work at construction site and have made isolation room available in case of a suspected patient.
While Haryana had started giving permission for in-situ construction in the last week of April, Delhi and UP have also allowed construction from Monday.
“The guidelines issued by the district administration are fully complied with, in these projects to ensure prevention of virus infection as the work starts. Although the construction has been resumed in limited scale, the real challenges before the developers is how to cope with the completely changed atmosphere,” said RK Arora, chairman of Noida based Supertech group.
Developers also fear that despite easing on construction ban, it will be diicult to convince workers to stay if they have the option of going back.
“With various government allowing migration of labourers to home town, there may be some shortfall of labourers particularly in the pre-monsoon period. But we are hopeful most of them will come back once economic activities are allowed on a full-scale,” said Manoj Gaur, MD of Noida based Gaurs Group.
With no cash ow, developers say they can’t incentivise the labourers.
“It can only be hoped that laborers staying in project do not move and the construction activity can be started,” said Ashish Bhutani, CEO of Bhutani Infra.
Various authorities in NCR towns such as Gurgaon, Faridabad, Noida, Greater Noida and Ghaziabad have come up with online portal for instant approval.
“We would want the construction to start as soon as we get the approval from the district authorities on restarting the process. A major hindrance to the resumption of construction activities is about getting our labour back to work from their hometowns. We have only a handful of labour at our site to start the construction post-approval. Till the time inter-district and state movement restrictions are imposed it is diicult to get the construction work back in full swing. We would be needing Building materials also to start the eective construction,” said Ashish Sarin, CEO of AlphaCorp.
Developers say that projects may take some more time to eectively take o till suicient workforce could be brought in.
“The real estate sector which was already in redprior to outbreak of the pandemic, had no sale, no booking and no collection during the lock down period due to which their liabilities have been compounded and the developers are under severe liquidity crisis. Salaries and wages of employees are pending for several months in most of the projects,” said Arora.
“We have already initiated the paper work for the government’s approval to restart our work, mentioning all the essentials which are required. We will start as soon as we get the green signal from the authorities in a planned way following all the necessary precautions,” Pankaj Jain, Director-KW Group.
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