Pathetic Puravankara-Sunshine just an example

Review On Puravankara Builders, Bangalore

"Buying flat is a

dream for many, investment for some;Selling flats is

business for many, way of cheating for some."

Recent real

estate boom would have tempted many of you to be part of one or the other

category. This article is written and broadcasted to many as part of anti-Purva

campaign. This is written not only to educate to stay away from these

rogues but also as an attempt to tell how pathetically this 420 company

has looted money in name of Purva Sunshine project situated on **Sarjapur road,

Bangalore**.“Purva Sunshine” was one of some

15 projects launched by these rogues called Puravankara. Some of the projects

executed by this company based on Ulasoor road, Bangalore got completed as they were

outsourced to L&T.However several other projects, for that matter off late

all projects went into complete mess due to lack of foresight, business acumen, immaturity and arrogance shown by its MD Gireesh Puravankara.

Being launched in 2004, Purva Sunshine, still stands incomplete on Sarjapur Road as a proof of

lack of commitment by management When this project was launched Purva charged at

least 20% more than surrounding flats.The promised date of delivery was August

1. Right from the day one, Purva Sunshine was in soup.For premium which was

paid to these rascals, one would have expected a little maturity in executing

the project.As the MD himself was negligent, no wonder his subordinates hardly

showed any interest towards the project.If at all they were committed then it

was only for demanding installment amount, without showing progress on project.

Their

crookedness came to fore from the day of signing application for an apartment.

This is even before signing construction and sale agreements.The shameless

fellow YN Rao who handles After Sales department started telling for any delay

one has to pay the penalty. While begging like this these thugs should have

known, on their part there should not be any delay in bringing up project.

Within 8 months

of launch Purva Sunshine, construction came to a complete halt. Obviously

anxious investors wanted to meet the After Sales department headed by YN Rao.

This fellow started telling he is unaware of any happenings and he has not got

any feedback from Engineering department. Incidentally it must be noted that this

YN Rao is only contact person for all flats and all projects of Purva. So no

wonder, his mobile always remained off. Yes, there are two more buffoons in the

ring. One Sankarnarayanan and other Naina who are from public relations and

marketing departments respectively. These people are also good for nothing for

the fact that they don’t even know what happens at site.

Inspite of

sending several mails, memos and making phone calls management never bothered

to come forward and address its customers. So in a nutshell, there was no one

to inform why project is stopped. Finally good number of buyers of Sunshine

barged into office and demanded MD Gireesh Puravankara to come forward and

address. This insensitive MD did not even bother to come and listen. When he

realized that people are not going to move out he had no way but to come and

address.Following were his excuses...1.It rained heavily in Bangalore and hence construction got

delayed. (2)BDA asked him to stop and relinquish part of land

because of proposed peripheral ring road.(3)The village panchayat threatened workers because

village was getting disturbed at night.

However he

said, Purva is committed to complete work within 2 months. He was assuring this

when all floors were not even in near sight.

It did not take

much time for people to realize inside story. When BDA asked Purva to

relinquish part of land, Purva’s after sales office sold some of the flats

which were supposed to belong to landlord Nagaraj Reddy to other customers.

This guy brought the work to a halt demanding for his flats. However Purva

management never bothered to convey message to investors that they had to give

away substantial land and instead of that they got approval from BDA to

construct 2 more floors. Purvankara sold these extra flats at much higher rates

to new customers.

After multiple vociferous

meetings also construction never proceeded. During one of such meetings Gireesh

Puravankara said, the contractor has ditched him. Now Purva has to build with

its own resources. At no point of time one could see more than 20 people

working on this large project which had around 250 flats.As this senseless MD

kept telling he has quality workers and kept committing vague dates, everyone had

understood that he has no sense of what business he is into. Many a times he

even went on to say project is almost completed whereas nothing was there at

site. To overcome such meaningless talk, he was asked to come to site for

meetings. Though he agreed to come, he stayed away from on site meetings,

quoting that he had more urgent work to do. During one of the meetings held at

office, he introduced two more buffoons- Subhan and Suhas Kulkarni who

maintained safe distance all the time from project and people who had concerns.

If one person kept his mobile off, other one always said either he was in Delhi or Dubai

and he has lots of other issues to look at.Each department of this company has

shown no concern to customers beyond Marketing. Modification department headed

by Maregowda does not even bother to inform about consequences of

modifications.

However their charges are sky high and once you make payment

they will not even bother to address your queries. For shifting an electric

point they charge Rs.1800/ . To put a water tap it costs Rs.7000/-

Though in this

article Purva Sunshine has been mentioned, the facts hold good with any Purva

project as same people handle all projects here.Several projects which they

say that they have completed are actually incomplete.For Purva Sunshine,

though management may say, many have taken possessions, not even one has done

that happily.They have taken mainly because though the project is not in a

livable state, even after 1 year delay, Puravankara has not paid late penalty.

On the other side, many lived in rented houses where they had to pay the rent

as well.The unrealistic and impractical dates given by Purva made many people

to take admissions in schools around Sarjapur road.So they had no way but to

move in while construction is still in progress.The worst part of Purva is

that they kept on blaming contractors, cement prices, rain, local panchayat, land

lord etc.Whereas the fact is they never had capacity to build such a building.Today problems galore at site; many flats which Puravankara claims are complete

have un-leveled tiles, water gushes in, doors and windows don’t fit and lifts

not working.Walk into this Purva Sunshine even today, you will not see more

than 25 workers who do everything right from tiling, painting, septic

tank, electric fitting to compound wall.It has been 3 years since this project

got launched.No one here at site, has any prior experience in construction.Above all Gireesh

Puravankara says this is one of his best quality projects.This shows how much

he understands quality and how much of ground realities he is familiar with.

This Pathetic Puravankara is not

something on which you can count.These are not guys worth your time or money.

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