From WBHIRA to WBRERA: Everything West Bengal Homebuyers Need to Know in 2026
If you have been on the lookout for a house in Kolkata, Durgapur, or Siliguri in the last few years, you must have come across the term WBHIRA. However, if you search for it now, you would see that it is gone from official sites and replaced with WBRERA. What happened? Was WBHIRA a failure? Or did it just evolve? Here is the overview of how West Bengal tried to do real estate differently and see where things stand now. What was WBHIRA? In 2017, the Central Government of India had come up with RERA (Real Estate Regulatory Authority) to clean housing sector. But West Bengal took a somewhat different approach. The state government, however, came up with its own version in the form of the West Bengal Housing Industry Regulation Act, 2017 (WBHIRA) instead of adopting the central law. It became operational in June 2018. The Act was meant to protect buyers from being ripped off by builders. West Bengal had a "watchdog" for the first time to make sure that people who paid...
