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The Uttar Pradesh Real Estate Regulatory Authority (UP RERA) is an authority. Established through the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016, the authority is responsible for regulating the real estate sector in the North Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

Organisation
The authority comprises one chairperson and three members. The chairperson—currently Rajive Kumar—is usually a retired officer of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS).

The authority has two offices – one in Greater Noida and the other in Lucknow. Each office houses two members of the authority who hear cases.

Chairperson
The chairperson of UP RERA is responsible for its functioning and also administers the oath of affirmation to its members. Generally a retired IAS officer, the chairperson is also responsible for making benches of the authority. The first and current chairperson of the authority is Rajive Kumar, a retired IAS officer and a former Uttar Pradesh chief secretary and Union Shipping Secretary.

The chairperson receives the same pay as the top civil servant of the state, the chief secretary, that is, the level 17 (or the apex scale) of the pay matrix.

Members
The Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016 mandates that an real estate authority should have three members in addition to the chairperson. A member of the authority gets the same pay as the chief secretary of a state government. The current members of Uttar Pradesh Real Estate Regulatory Authority are.