Every Maharashtra promoter knows registration day. Fewer can list, from memory, the eleven or more filings that day commits them to every year, which is why 8,212 projects received Section 7 show-cause notices in a single sweep in May 2026 for missing one QPR deadline. This is the complete filing year, with the order numbers behind each obligation and a working view of what non-compliance now costs.
Key takeaways
- Quarterly progress reports are due within 20 days of quarter end: 20 July, 20 October, 20 January, 20 April (Order 18/2021 as amended; Order 33/2022).
- Form 2A, the quality assurance certificate, is due within three months of financial year end; Form 5, the CA-audited annual accounts, within six months.
- Forms 1, 2 and 3 are not calendar filings: they accompany every withdrawal from the 70 percent account and their copies must be filed on the portal.
- Non-filing now means show-cause notices at scale, penalties up to 5 percent of project cost, and public listing, and every miss is visible to buyers on your project page.
Why the calendar deserves a page on your wall
MahaRERA organizes all promoter disclosures into seven categories by frequency: quarterly updates, the withdrawal-linked forms, annual filings, event-driven updates, and completion filings. Three properties make this regime different from ordinary paperwork. The deadlines are absolute dates, not rolling windows. The filings publish immediately to your public project page, where buyers, lenders and competitors read them. And since 2023 the enforcement posture has hardened: web notices, penalties scaled to project cost, public defaulter lists, and the grading system that turns your filing record into a scorecard.
Iqbal, our second-generation Thane builder (illustrative, as ever), learned the third property the expensive way: a QPR his site engineer forgot cost a show-cause notice, and the notice appeared on the same project page his sales team was sending to prospects. Compliance is not back office anymore. It is marketing.
The filing year, in order
- 1
20 April: Q4 QPR
Quarterly progress report for January to March: construction status with Form 1 and 2 backing, booking status, incremental approval changes. Order 33/2022.
- 2
30 June: Form 2A
Quality assurance certificate for the completed financial year, within three months of FY end. Annual since the 2023 regulations amendment; quarterly under Order 5/2018 before that.
- 3
20 July: Q1 QPR
April to June quarter. Same content set, same 20-day discipline.
- 4
30 September: Form 5
Annual statement of accounts, CA-audited, within six months of FY end, confirming collections and withdrawals complied with Section 4(2)(l)(D).
- 5
20 October: Q2 QPR
July to September quarter.
- 6
20 January: Q3 QPR
October to December quarter.
- 7
Whenever money moves: Forms 1, 2, 3
Architect, engineer and CA certificates for every withdrawal from the designated 70 percent account, proportional to certified completion, with copies filed on the portal (Rule 5, Maharashtra RERA Rules).
- 8
As they happen: event updates
Plan revisions, professional changes, litigation updates, extension applications. Kept current, not batched.
- 9
At completion: closure filings
OC upload, final certificates, and the handover documentation to the allottees' association.
Source: MahaRERA Orders 18/2021 and 33/2022, Order 5/2018, 2023 regulations amendment, Rule 5 Maharashtra RERA Rules
An analogy: the GST-ification of project reporting
A decade ago, indirect tax compliance was an annual negotiation; GST made it a monthly, system-enforced rhythm where non-filing blocks your business mechanically. MahaRERA has done the same to project disclosure. The QPR is your GSTR: miss it and the system, not a human, flags you; file it late repeatedly and the record follows you into every future registration, lender review and now the public grading. Developers who treat the calendar like GST, owned by one accountable person with system reminders, simply stop appearing in enforcement sweeps.
What a miss actually costs
The penalty architecture has three layers, each more expensive than the fee it replaced. First, the statutory layer: Section 7 proceedings can suspend or revoke registration, and penalties for continuing default scale up to 5 percent of the estimated project cost, which on a Rs 200 crore project is a Rs 10 crore exposure for paperwork. Second, the public layer: non-filing is displayed on the project page, the defaulter lists are published, and the grading system converts filing discipline into a comparative score buyers can sort by. Third, the commercial layer, the quiet one: lenders' project-finance teams and institutional buyers read filing gaps as governance risk, and buyers are now taught, including by us, to treat two silent quarters as a walk-away signal.
Source: MahaRERA enforcement action reported May 2026
Running the calendar without drama
Four practices separate the never-noticed from the show-caused:
- One owner, named. The filings fail when they are everyone's job. Make them one person's, with the CA, architect and engineer on a standing quarterly cadence rather than summoned per filing.
- Certificates before demands. Forms 1, 2 and 3 gate your own money. Projects that run the withdrawal cycle on a fixed monthly rhythm draw from the 70 percent account smoothly; projects that certify reactively starve their own sites between demand letters.
- File the bad quarter honestly. A slow quarter filed on time reads as governance; the same quarter filed late reads as concealment. Buyers and lenders both price the second worse than the first.
- Audit your own public page quarterly. Read your project the way a buyer reads it: dates current, filings present, no accidental red flags. Your page is your prospectus whether you curate it or not.
Deadlines and penalty figures in this article are as of the orders cited, current to mid-2026. MahaRERA revises procedure regularly (the QPR window itself moved from 7 days to 20), so confirm against the live circulars page before relying on a date.
The register reads both ways
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