The buyer who is hit the most hit by the delay as he continues to pay the
EMIs as well as the rent and the wait for the flat turns into a
prolonged agony
The coloniser is not just allowed to use the large sums of money thus collected for his business interests and now with the burden of interest being shifted to the flat buyers, the project faces delays the development of the area and the possession of the flat.
They are making profit by putting the EDC on the salable area per square feet from the buyers. The whole procedure varies from one colonizer to another.
The flat buyer usually at the time of payment of 3rd and 4th installments submits the EDC to them, but according to practices, they should deposit it to them in six monthly installments spread over four years.
According to the Town and Country Planning, it was reported that the colonisers are paying EDC to the Department as per the prescribed rates, although they charge the EDC according to their preferences.
Normally maximum projects are sold to the colonizers during the soft-launch itself before procuring the license that is an illegal practice but a norm in Haryana and no action is taken against it.
The colonizers increased the rate of EDC by including the interest because the plots/flats were sold in different years over a span of three years after obtaining licenses from the Haryana Government.
This is charged to the owners of the property or flat buyers in return for services like sewage, roads, water supply and few other town-level facilities provided by the HUDA.
This is charged to the owners of the property or flat buyers in return for services like sewage, roads, water supply and few other town-level facilities provided by the HUDA.
EDC is a terminology that is know to every flat buyer of Haryana. External Development Charges is one of the sources through which funds come in for the Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA