“Please take note of this. All builders should sell flats only on carpet area. At the exhibition today, I found that most builders were selling on carpet.” As the state housing minister Sachin Ahir made the statement at the MCHI-CREDAI expo, the builders flanking him - Bandish Ajmera, chairman of the exhibition committee, Boman Irani, MCHI secretary, and others - nodded their heads in agreement.

At the MCHI property exhibition at MMRDA ground, several stalls stuck to selling their stock on built-up area, instead of the stipulated carpet