Mohali RERA Projects Due From 28 Feb Get 4 More Months मोहाली के अट्ठाईस फ़रवरी के RERA प्रोजेक्टों को चार माह और ਮੋਹਾਲੀ ਦੇ ਅਠਾਈ ਫ਼ਰਵਰੀ ਦੇ RERA ਪ੍ਰੋਜੈਕਟਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਚਾਰ ਮਹੀਨੇ ਹੋਰ

Every registered housing project in Mohali carries a completion date on the record of the Punjab Real Estate Regulatory Authority. For a large group of projects, that recorded date has now moved. A common order of the authority extends the registration and completion timeline of eligible projects by four months, without any application from the promoter and without any fee.

The order also states plainly what it does not touch. The extension, it says, applies only to the dates recorded with the authority and does not alter the rights and obligations of promoters and buyers under their agreements for sale. This piece explains which projects the order covers and why it was issued. It also sets out what it changes for buyers in Mohali, Zirakpur, Kharar and New Chandigarh, and what it leaves exactly as it was. The table with this piece sets out the order point by point.

The order and where it came from

The order was issued by the Punjab authority under section thirty seven of the Real Estate Regulation and Development Act of twenty sixteen, which lets the authority issue directions that bind promoters and allottees. The authority's website lists it among its circulars and orders with a date of issue of the seventeenth of September twenty twenty six. The memo number and date on the published copy of the order itself could not be read, so the date given here comes from that listing alone.

It follows an advisory from the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs dated the thirty first of July. The ministry wrote that the situation in West Asia had disrupted global supply chains and caused shortages of construction materials. It noted that an office memorandum of the Department of Expenditure, dated the twenty ninth of April, had treated the West Asia situation as war for the purpose of force majeure clauses.

On that basis the ministry advised every state real estate authority that it may grant a four month extension of registration and completion timelines to projects whose completion date falls on or after the twenty eighth of February twenty twenty six. It also suggested a single common order, so that promoters would not have to apply project by project. The Punjab order takes up both suggestions.

How force majeure works under the real estate law

Section six of the Act lets the authority extend a project's registration because of force majeure. The Act defines force majeure as "a case of war, flood, drought, fire, cyclone, earthquake or any other calamity caused by nature affecting the regular development of the real estate project".

In the normal course, a promoter seeking an extension applies to the authority. The Punjab rules framed under the Act set out that route, through an application in a prescribed form made before the registration expires. An application on the ground of force majeure carries no fee under the same rule.

The September order replaces that individual route for this one cause. The authority has treated the West Asia situation as a war for the purpose of force majeure, and it has granted the extension to every eligible project at once.

Which projects the order covers

The order covers registered projects whose completion date falls on or after the twenty eighth of February twenty twenty six. It counts a revised or extended completion date in the same way as the original one. For those projects the registration and its completion timeline stand extended by four months. The order counts the four months "with effect from the last date of validity of the registration".

Two limits follow in the order itself. Projects that received a completion certificate or an occupancy certificate on or after the twenty eighth of February are not eligible. The order also says it applies only to projects validly registered on or before that date.

So a project whose recorded completion date had already passed before the end of February gains nothing from this order. A project that finished and received its certificates after that date also falls outside it. The order is aimed at projects still under construction when the cut-off date arrived, or due to finish after it.

What changes for a buyer

The first change is to the record. For an eligible project, the date by which the promoter is registered to complete the work now sits four months later than before. A registration that would otherwise have run out during that period stays valid for the extra time.

The second change is to the paperwork. The order says there is "no requirement for the submission of separate individual applications or the payment of any fees for this extension". A buyer looking for an extension letter for a particular project may therefore find none. The common order is the extension.

The order does not say whether the dates shown on each project's page on the authority's website will be updated to reflect the four months. A project page that still shows the earlier date is consistent with an extension granted by common order.

What the order leaves unchanged

The third clause of the order is the one that matters most to buyers. It says the extension "pertains solely to the validity of registration and completion timeline of the project as recorded with the Authority, and shall not, in any manner, alter the contractual rights and obligations of promoters and allottees under the Agreement for Sale".

That wording is significant because of how the Act treats delay. Section eighteen makes a promoter liable to buyers if it fails to complete or give possession "in accordance with the terms of the agreement for sale" or by the date specified in it. A buyer who stays in the project is entitled to interest for every month of delay until possession. A buyer who withdraws can seek the return of the money paid, with interest.

On the order's own words, the four months move the date in the authority's register. They do not rewrite the possession date in a buyer's agreement. Whether a promoter can still argue force majeure against a particular buyer's claim is a separate question. That argument would turn on the agreement and the facts of each case, and the order does not settle it.

What the order does not say

The order is brief. It does not list the projects that qualify, so the count of Mohali projects covered is not public. It does not explain how the four months relate to the actual delays faced by any project. It also says nothing about the promoter's other duties under the Act.

The order also says nothing about projects registered after the twenty eighth of February. On its plain words, those projects fall outside it.

Where this leaves Mohali buyers

For a buyer waiting on a flat or plot in an eligible project, the record now gives the promoter four more months before its registration timeline runs out. The buyer's own agreement, and the possession date written into it, stays where it was.

The record of what the promoter promised therefore sits in two places. One is the authority's register, which has moved. The other is the agreement for sale, which the order expressly leaves alone. Any delay claim before the authority still starts from the agreement.

Related reading

- Builder delayed possession in Mohali: what RERA Punjab actually awards
- Punjab RERA penalty hearings for Kharar and Zirakpur projects
- A Zirakpur flat allotment cancelled after the possession date passed
- A Mohali buyer paid in full without a sale agreement

Sources: Punjab Real Estate Regulatory Authority, office order under section thirty seven on the extension of registration of real estate projects affected by the West Asia situation, listed on the authority's website with a date of issue of the seventeenth of September twenty twenty six, since the date on the copy itself is illegible. Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Housing Division, advisory to all real estate regulatory authorities dated the thirty first of July twenty twenty six. Real Estate Regulation and Development Act of twenty sixteen, sections six, eighteen and thirty seven. Punjab Real Estate Regulation and Development Rules of twenty seventeen, rule six. The sources we use are listed on our Editorial Sources page.

This piece describes a published order and a government advisory, along with the text of the Act and rules. Nothing here is legal or property advice, and the effect on any one project or agreement turns on its own facts and on the authority's decisions.