A study of the public record
What India's states actually disclose about a real-estate project
Every state runs a RERA register. They do not publish the same things — and the gap between the fullest and the thinnest is most of the record.
RERA is one national law implemented by 30-odd state authorities, each running its own portal, its own form and its own idea of what the public is entitled to see. In practice that means the answer to “what does the register say about this project?” depends heavily on which state it is in.
This counts the difference. For every state in the corpus, it measures how many of its published records actually carry a promised completion date, a revision to that date and a declared project cost — and, separately, whether the register publishes a complaints file, quarterly progress and an escrow declaration at all.
It is the one measurement that requires holding all the registers at once, which is why it has not been published before.
What each state's register carries
| State | Records | Possession date | Revised date | Declared cost | Complaints | Progress | Escrow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maharashtra | 49,380 | 100.0% | not published | not published | published | published | published |
| Gujarat | 17,548 | 100.0% | not published | 69.4% | published | published | published |
| Telangana | 11,162 | 100.0% | not published | not published | not published | not published | published |
| Karnataka | 8,956 | 100.0% | not published | 99.6% | published | published | published |
| Andhra Pradesh | 7,106 | 100.0% | not published | 100.0% | not published | not published | not published |
| Madhya Pradesh | 5,320 | 100.0% | 29.6% | 98.2% | not published | published | published |
| West Bengal | 4,788 | 100.0% | 2.9% | not published | not published | not published | not published |
| Rajasthan | 4,364 | 100.0% | 21.4% | 99.8% | not published | not published | published |
| Uttar Pradesh | 3,800 | 100.0% | 42.4% | 97.2% | published | not published | published |
| Tamil Nadu | 3,790 | 61.0% | not published | not published | not published | not published | not published |
| Chhattisgarh | 2,150 | 100.0% | not published | 87.8% | published | published | published |
| Punjab | 2,092 | 100.0% | not published | 88.6% | not published | not published | published |
| Bihar | 2,022 | 100.0% | 0.4% | 100.0% | not published | not published | published |
| Kerala | 1,636 | 99.5% | not published | not published | not published | not published | published |
| Odisha | 1,253 | 61.6% | not published | not published | not published | not published | published |
| Assam | 1,211 | 99.9% | not published | 76.8% | not published | not published | published |
| Jharkhand | 1,177 | 99.0% | 8.5% | 65.3% | not published | not published | published |
| Goa | 475 | 100.0% | not published | 70.5% | not published | not published | not published |
| Himachal Pradesh | 284 | not published | not published | not published | not published | not published | published |
| Tripura | 234 | 100.0% | not published | not published | not published | not published | not published |
| Haryana | 148 | 27.7% | 17.6% | 60.1% | not published | not published | published |
| Delhi | 140 | 88.6% | not published | 31.4% | not published | not published | published |
The first three columns are the share of that state's records carrying the field; the last three are whether the register publishes that section at all. Ordered by number of records held, largest first — order carries no other meaning.
How this was counted
- Every project record in the corpus is grouped by state. The possession date, revised date and declared cost are counted per record: the percentage is the share of that state's records carrying a usable value.
- Complaints, progress and escrow are counted differently, because they are properties of the register rather than of a record: a state either publishes that file or it does not. Those columns therefore read “published” or “not published”, not a percentage — a percentage there would have said 100% for every state that publishes the section, which means something quite different from what it appears to say.
- Where a per-record field is absent from every one of a state's records, it is reported as “not published” rather than 0%. A portal that carries no cost field at all is not a portal where no promoter declared a cost.
- Percentages are of that state's records in the corpus, not of every project the state has ever registered.
What it does not show
- A high disclosure percentage is a measure of what a portal publishes, not of whether a project is well run, and not of whether the filed values are accurate. Horizon does not audit filings.
- Coverage differs by state: the corpus holds what was readable at the last read, which for some states is a subset of their register.
- Fields can be missing because a state files them somewhere Horizon does not yet read, not only because they are unpublished.
- Only what the register itself carries is counted. Coordinates, neighbourhood detail and government guidance rates shown elsewhere on Horizon are added by Horizon from other sources, so they are deliberately not in this table — including them would credit a state with disclosure it never made.
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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1,29,036 project records counted, according to Horizon's count of India's state RERA registers (https://gethorizon.in/research/what-india-discloses).
Horizon. “What India's states actually disclose about a real-estate project.” Computed from India's state RERA registers. Retrieved —. https://gethorizon.in/research/what-india-discloses