About CGRF - CREDAI Chennai - Real Estate Development in India, Chennai

Aims And Objectives

To protect consumer in case of genuine grievance against developers.
To promote litigation -free healthy business environment in real estate sector.
To create healthy relationship between developers and their consumers.
To self-regulate as far as possible.
To eradicate unscrupulous practices from real estate business and improve its veracity, stature and public image.

It needs to be noted that CGRF shall function neither as quasi-judicial nor as an arbitrator but only as a mediator.
The Secretariat of Association shall admit the grievance in writing from consumer against any member of the association only.
The CGRF shall seek comments from the member against whom the grievance has been admitted.
The concerned member shall be required to respond to CGRF in respect of the grievance within 21 working days.
On receipt of the comments from members, CGRF shall send the same to the complainant.
If the complainant is not satisfied with the reply of the member, the CGRF shall hear both sides initially separately and independent of the other and if necessary, later, together at a joint meeting of both parties.
The joint meeting may not be required if the consumer accepts what CGRF conveys to him/her/it after having spoken to the parties separately as stated in point no.6 above and having conveyed the concerns and solutions, and if both the parties continue coordinating and sorting the issue of grievance. If this does not happen, CGRF shall try to mediate putting certain modalities acceptable to both the sides and shall prescribe certain time frame for closure of the case as deemed suitable to both the sides.
If deemed necessary, the CGRF shall carry out inspection at the site.
CGRF shall make its oral observations and try to get them accepted by both parties. It shall record minutes of settlement and in absence of settlement, shall issue observations after hearing both sides and shall close the matter.
The grievance once resolved shall not be entertained on complaint from the same parties again.
If no communication from complainant is received within a period of three months from the date of admitting the respective grievance in respect of issues which have been once resolved, CGRF shall not take up the issues again.

Consumer Grievance