Cost-cutting under the eyes of buyer

Hyderabad: Apart from delays in handing over apartments, buyers say there are other deficiencies too in the services provided builders.

From using low-quality pipes to resorting to single brick walls for cost cutting to minor reductions in the height of the flats, there are several ways in which the buyers are impacted.

An owners’ association  had pleaded with the forum to order that “drinking water and sewerage connection to the apartment should be provided”.

The forum then ordered the builder to provide the facilities and also imposed a fine of Rs 2 lakh.