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How often a promised possession date gets moved

Some states publish both the original promised completion date and its revision. Where they do, the distance between the two is on the record.

At registration a promoter files the date by which the project will be complete. Several state registers also publish a revised date when that promise is formally changed — which means, uniquely, the original promise and its revision both survive in public.

This counts how many records carry a revision, and how far the date moved.

It is a measurement of two filed dates. It is not a measure of whether a project was delivered, which the registers do not publish in a comparable way.

4,395records carry a revised completion dateacross 7 states that publish one
12 monthsmedian distance between the two datesthe middle value, not an average
100.0%of revisions move the date laterthe remainder move it earlier
Median months between the promised date and its revision
  1. Uttar Pradesh1,612 revised records
    6 months
  2. Madhya Pradesh1,576 revised records
    9 months
  3. Rajasthan935 revised records
    12 months
  4. West Bengal137 revised records
    12 months
  5. Jharkhand100 revised records
    36 months
  6. Haryana26 revised records
    24 months
  7. Bihar9 revised records
    12 months

Each bar: months, against the largest shown. Each bar is a median over that register's revised records only, so the bases differ — the count behind each is printed beside it.

Revised completion dates, by state

StateRevised recordsShare of that stateMedian months moved
Uttar Pradesh1,61242.4%6
Madhya Pradesh1,57629.6%9
Rajasthan93521.4%12
West Bengal1372.9%12
Jharkhand1008.5%36
Haryana2617.6%24
Bihar90.4%12

Only states whose register publishes a revision appear. Ordered by count, largest first.

How this was counted

  • A record counts as revised when its filing carries both an original promised completion date and a different revised one.
  • The distance is the difference between those two dates in months, and the figure quoted is the median — the middle value, which is not moved by a handful of extreme filings the way an average is.
  • Only states whose register publishes a revision field appear. States absent from the table do not publish revisions; they are not states where nothing is revised.

What it does not show

  • A revision is a formal change to a filed promise. It is not proof of delay: a project can be revised and still complete, or slip without ever filing a revision.
  • Records showing no revision may simply never have filed one. Absence of a revision is not evidence a date was met.
  • Median months are computed only over records that carry both dates, so the base differs from a state's total project count.

Computed from every project record Horizon holds, sourced from the state RERA registers and recomputed daily. Horizon publishes the record; it does not rank, score or advise.

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Free to quote, chart or republish with a link back to this page. No permission needed — the figures are counts of a public register. The numbers are recomputed daily, so a citation is worth dating.

4,395 records carry a revised completion date, according to Horizon's count of India's state RERA registers (https://gethorizon.in/research/the-promise-and-the-revision).

Horizon. “How often a promised possession date gets moved.” Computed from India's state RERA registers. Retrieved —. https://gethorizon.in/research/the-promise-and-the-revision