4.6 lakh homes may miss delivery deadline in 2020

New Delhi

“If not for COVID-19, the top seven cities were to see the delivery of nearly 4.66 lakh units by 2020-end. Launched after 2013, many of the projects were on the final leg of completion. With almost zero construction activity in the last few months due to the lockdown, the completion deadlines for almost all these projects have got extended,” it said.

As per the report, the National Capital Region and the Mumbai Metropolitan Region have over one lakh units each lined up for delivery in 2020. Before the pandemic, Pune had 68,800 units lined up for completion in 2020, Kolkata had 33,850 units and Hyderabad had nearly 30,500 units to be completed during the year. Chennai had least pending delivery at around 24,650 units. The year 2021 was to see completion of nearly 4.12 lakh units across top seven cities.