5 Years Of Demonetization
Real estate developers share their views on the five years of demonetization and its impact on Indian realty. Pritam Chivukula, Co-Founder & Director, Tridhaatu Realty, and Hon. Secretary, CREDAI MCHI, "It has been five years since the government took a stringent step by announcing demonetization while encouraging to adopt digital transactions over cash transactions. An important goal of demonetization was to reduce the use of cash in transactions and inspire people to pay using non-cash modes. The real estate industry has welcomed this move towards the positive side since it helped the sector to increase the direct tax collections. This has brought a large number of evaders in the tax net. It has indirectly made things more systematic, accountable and transparent. Overall, the move has declined cash transactions, increased the bank deposits and financial savings has seen an uptick too." Kaushal Agarwal, Chairman, The Guardians Real Estate Advisory, "Even though the sudden and initial impact of demonetization over the economy was severe and real estate was the worst hit sector. However, today I feel that it was a much-calculated move by the government to streamline the economy and bring transparency in key sectors. It has helped the sector to consolidate the market, it brought a level playing field for the organised and transparent entities. It has prevented the inflow of black money and nearly wiped-out the unorganised players. More importantly, it has paved the path for corporate and listed companies to expand and grow, which in other cases was tilted in favour of local and unorganised players. Demonetization has also increased the awareness about digital payments and online transactions amongst the home buyers. This has drastically helped the sector to eradicate the age-old menace of illicit transactions and dubious sales. In a nutshell, Demonetization along with RERA has made the sector more organized, transparent, and robust which appears to me as the stepping stones towards attaining the much-awaited industry status for Real Estate."
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