THANE'S RECOVERY FILE: TWO-THIRDS OF BUYERS' MONEY STILL UNENFORCED

NONE Of Rs 74 crore in MahaRERA recovery dues attributable to Thane district, Rs 23 crore has been recovered — leaving roughly Rs 51 crore in adjudicated, warrant-backed homebuyer money unexecuted in the district this newspaper serves. Behind that figure are families who did everything the system asked: complained, proved their case, won, obtained a warrant — and then met the one stage RERA cannot compress, the revenue recovery process at the Collectorate. Accountability here has an address. Section 40(1) makes the district collector the executing authority; the Maharashtra Land Revenue Code gives the office powers of attachment and auction that most private creditors can only envy. The tools exist. The question this desk will keep asking, issue after issue, is why they move at one-third speed for homebuyers — and which files, specifically, are waiting. Readers holding unexecuted Thane warrants: write in. Names of parties in active proceedings will be withheld per editorial policy; the pattern will not be.