The Apartments rule was implemented in 2007 by the same government. However, now the government has decided to chart out new rules to help ease the problems being faced by buyers of flats.

According to Modi, who also holds the finance portfolio, the new rule would have provision for registration of builders by way of making payment of a fee.

The new rule would also legally deal with the builders violating the conditions in the agreements and also to prevent cheating of customers.

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The new apartment rules being framed should ease the problems of not only the flat purchasers but also of the residents in the adjoining buildings. There is probably no other state capital in the country where apartment builders daringly flout all the building norms with so much impunity. Practically on all fronts , the flagrant violations are mind-boggling. The builders do not follow norms for FAR ( floor area ratio), do not leave setback area all around the
construction, make no provision of parking space and do not construct sewerage and drainage as required under the law. There is no control, no supervision. The Director of the Urban Planning in Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC) admitted to a leading Indian daily that there were 400 illegal constructions in Patna. If the law had its way, these constructions would have been demolished through due process of law. The result is that Patna , with such a glorious historical and cultural past , is turning into a sprawling and stinking slum of concrete jungle with serious water-logging and hygienic problems. It is no surprise that Patna High Court, while hearing a petition from an aggrieved petitioner from Danapur remarked in January this year that “Patna is jungle . There is no rule of law here” (Indo Asian News Service,Januay 15, 2011).
Ramadhar, Patna