NOIDA: State-owned NBCC (India) Ltd has started the remaining work at Amrapali’s seven housing projects in Noida and Greater Noida, the Supreme Court-appointed receiver said. To begin with, the construction firm on Wednesday started mobilising workforce for Amrapali Sapphire-I located in Noida’s Sector 45 to complete the work on some necessary facilities such as firefighting system, lifts, and final paint work, a move that will offer relief to about 1,000 families living in the society.
According to NBCC officials, the work at Sapphire-I will be finished in the next six months. There are about 1,300 flats in the Sapphire-I project and about 1,000 of them are occupied.
“As per the directions of the Supreme Court, we have started flat registration in those Amrapali projects in Noida, whose documents have been verified. Flat owners may start getting registry done from January 9. Also, NBCC has started mobilising workforce to finish remaining work in housing projects so that apartment owners get required basic facilities,” said court receiver R Venkatramani.
On July 23 last year, the apex court had appointed Venkatramani to control the Amrapali’s housing projects and carry out further activities, including registration of ready flats, accepting money from buyers, selling unsold flats and dealing with the NBCC that has been directed to complete the stuck housing projects.
The NBCC-hired contractor on Wednesday took stock of Sapphire-I project so that it can start work to finish facilities, which were not completed by the beleaguered developer. Apartment owners have been suffering due to lack of common facilities since 2014, when they were made to shift into partially ready projects by the developer.
{{/usCountry}}The NBCC-hired contractor on Wednesday took stock of Sapphire-I project so that it can start work to finish facilities, which were not completed by the beleaguered developer. Apartment owners have been suffering due to lack of common facilities since 2014, when they were made to shift into partially ready projects by the developer.
{{/usCountry}}In the first tranche, NBCC had in November last year invited firms to compete for tenders for the following projects: Centurion Park in Greater Noida’s Sector Techzone-4; Silicon City-I and II in Noida’s Sector 76; Zodiac in Noida’s Sector 120; Sapphire-I and II in Noida’s Sector 45, and Princely Estate in Noida’s Sector 76.
“As of now we have awarded work to one private contractor for Sapphire-I and the contractor has been told to finish the work at the earliest. We are likely to award work order of Zodiac on Thursday. Work order for Sapphire-II is likely to be awarded by next week. We aim all works are awarded by January-end,” said an NBCC official on condition of anonymity, as he is not authorised to speak to media.
In Sapphire-I, there are six towers. But only 12 lifts are working and six are yet to be made functional.
“We are living in fear because the builder did not install all three lifts per tower. The maintenance of lifts is in poor state. We hope the NBCC will install three lifts in each tower and also finish other remaining work at the earliest as we are suffering for long,” said Pallavi Singh, an apartment owner in Sapphire-I.