Mr. K.S. Chaudhari, Presiding Member—All these appeals arise out of common order of State Commission involving similar facts; hence, decided by common order.

2. These appeals have been filed by the appellants against the order dated 24.9.2009 passed by the Orissa State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, Bhubaneswar (in short, ‘the State Commission’) in CDC Nos. 218 to 222/1993 – Sudhakar Jogi Mohanti Vs. State of Orissa and Anr., Harun Rasid Khan Vs. State of Orissa and Anr., Bijay Kumar Mishra Vs. State of Orissa and Anr., Amarendra Sahoo Vs. State of Orissa and Anr. and V. Appa Rao Vs. State of Orissa and Anr., by which, complaints were dismissed.

3. Brief facts of the case are that Housing Board/OP No.2/Respondent No. 2 by an advertisement dated 28.07.1988 published in the daily ‘Samaj’ called for applications from intending purchasers in the prescribed form for HIG houses proposed to be built at Chandrasekharpur on Nandan Kanan Road and at Jagamara near Khandagiri under Self-Financing Scheme and HUDCO Financing Scheme at a provisional cost of Rs. 2.5 lakhs having plinth area of 1,200 sq. fts. The expected date of completion of the houses was given as 31.12.1989. The