with thanks : Hindustan Times : link above
Monday, May 30, 2011
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Property Tax Collection Camp in Priyadarshini Vihar
The Priyadarshini Vihar RWA organized a Property Tax Collection Camp in the colony on Saturday, 28th May 2011, for the convenience of the residents of Priyadarshini Vihar and nearby colonies; and to assist MCD to collect more tax, About 100 people including from Laxmi Nagar, Guru Ram Dass Nagar, and East End Enclave paid their property tax and obtained receipts. Priyadarshini Vihar RWA organizes this camp every year. Most of the visitors were senior citizens, who felt very happy and appreciated the good effort made by the RWA.
Shri B. B. Tyagi, the area Councillor also paid a visit and appreciated the RWA for its efforts in helping the MCD in collection of property tax. He also thanked the MCD staff for their co-opertion.
Ram Gupta
General Secretary
Priyadarshini Vihar RWA
Thursday, May 26, 2011
RWAs entitled to charge fee from residents: Court
New Delhi: Owners or occupants of a house are bound to pay the membership fee to the Residents Welfare Association (RWA) of the colony to fund its various welfare activities and services, a Delhi court has said.
"Being an occupier of flat, the person is bound by the terms and conditions of the RWA and he is also bound to pay the monthly subscription as he is being benefited by the welfare activities which are carried out by the association," Additional Senior Civil Judge Gautam Manan said.
The court gave this judgement in an over six-year-old dispute, asking S S Rana, a resident of Maurya Enclave at Pitampura in North West Delhi, to pay Rs 3,900 with interest to his RWA, calculated at the rate of Rs 50 per month.
The RWA had filed a suit against Rana contending that as per its rules, it is mandatory on his part to be member of the...association and pay the monthly subscription as it is carrying out welfare activities such as cleanliness of block and park and is also providing watchmen, sweeper, electrician and plumber service to its occupants members including Rana.
This was refuted by Rana saying he is neither a member of the RWA nor bound by its rules and regulations.
The court after hearing both the sides ruled in favour of the RWA and said if the owners and occupants of houses will not pay the fee, it will be impossible for the RWA to carry on with welfare activities and services.
"I am of the considered opinion that the RWA is working for the welfare of its flat owners and occupiers and for extending service to the occupiers it is charging a monthly fee...These activities cannot be carried out if the occupiers stop paying the association their monthly subscription," the judge said....
with thanks : financial express : link above for detailed news.
RWA NEWS : RWA maintained parks better kept than GMADA's
MOHALI: While over 400 parks in Mohali, under the care of Greater Mohali Area Development Authority (GMADA), are faced with abject maintenance and upkeep for the last 12 months, resident welfare associations (RWAs) in various sectors and phases have been maintaining and beautifying 90 such designated green zones for the same time with contrasting results. After years of spending crores of tax payers money on the issue, GMADA recently took over the maintenance aspect of the said parks from the municipal corporation.
On the other hand, the RWAs have been going about their business with consummate ease and are receiving money from GMADA each month for maintenance of the parks at the rate of Re 1.30 per acre.
Manish Nagpal, a RWA member of Phase-IX said, ''We have been maintaining the neighbourhood park in our locality for the past one-and-a-half years. But parking of vehicles or stray dogs making the park their abode needs to be checked. Though we have asked GMADA authorities to hand over a couple of parks to us for maintenance, they have been reluctant to do so.''In June 2010, GMADA was poised to hand over the periodic maintenance of parks to the council but the local body objected to just being given maintenance charge of the parks and wanted a significant amount of cash to be able to carry out the maintenance of these parks.
with thanks : Times of India : link above for detailed news.
Discoms for conservation
If you paint the exterior of your house, especially the rooftop, white and put sun-control film on the glasses of your windows, your home will need up to 20% less air-conditioning than it does now. Tips and tricks like these will go to 27 lakh power consumers across the city from power distributors BSES Yamuna and BSES Rajdhani, which launched the "My Cool Ideas" campaign on Tuesday.
The campaign has invited ideas from residents, students, professionals — essentially everyone who is a power consumer — to conserve electricity through innovative ways and beat the heat.
Consumers of the two discoms supplying in majority of Delhi have been invited to participate and contribute ideas to the company’s website,www.bsesdelhi.com.
In addition to that, the discoms, are also using all their public awareness tools like the Synergy newsletters attached to electricity bills, SMSes, RWA forums etc to engage people in this campaign.
with thanks : Hindustan Times : link above for detailed news.
Councillors reject wards' public panel
To promote greater public participation in the decision-making process of the MCD, in March this year, the then mayor PR Sawhney had announced that the civic agency will set up a resident wards committee (RWC) in each of the 272 wards of the city. Through these committees, resident welfare associations (RWAs) will be able to have a say in the policies being made by the councillors.
However, when the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) held a meeting on Tuesday with municipal councillors, most of them rejected the idea saying it will lead to more problems.
Headed by present mayor Rajni Abbi, the meeting was attended by about 30-odd councillors. They said that each ward has a dozen RWAs and if the scheme is implemented, each RWA will demand work only in their area and there will be disputes between them.
Sawhney's idea was that the RWC will be constituted by involving a representative from each RWA within a ward and will be chaired by the ward municipal councillor.
with thanks : hindustan times : link above for detailed news.
An Open Letter
An Open Letter (to whom they may concern and the authorities at the helm of affairs, right from Hon’ble Lt. Governor and Hon’ble Chief Minister of NCT of Delhi)
We highly appreciate and acclaim the efforts being made at the top level by holding ‘video conferencing’ and having ‘bhagidari’ scheme, e-governance etc. etc. These are all, of course, get wide publicity through the media! But what is the situation at the ground level! This is worth probing into! Kindly also appreciate and help to resolve the problems. They are innumerable which have been ventilated through various communications and channels to the authorities concerned but no avail. Hence we are expressing over here with expectation that ‘some positive action’ will be taken in the right direction to resolve the problems on a time-bound programme basis.
Why we are in the age and time of e-governance the authorities concerned do not give publicity to their e-mail addresses, besides the help lines etc. which are hardly attended to and even attended, there ends the matter! We have been repeatedly requesting and pleading with the authorities concerned only two minor things and these too are not attended to or complied with! Can you make them alive to the situation and respond to the various complaints made? We request them first to acknowledge all communications received by them and second to reply within a time limit and in case of difficulty to appreciate the problem better, give a call to the signatory to meet them in person to understand the problem in proper perspective and answer them at the spot what they propose to do! Are we asking for more? Be yourself be the judge!! Herein we are only highlighting and confining to the problems of the Anand Vihar Society which is one of the two biggest cooperative residential housing societies in East Delhi .
Let’s go department-wise so that there is clarity and direct the grievances to the authorities concerned to respond within a time-limit and give us a target date by which the works required to be carried out will be completed.
- DJB: Water pipelines were laid over 3 decades back and they are getting corroded and warrant replacement;
- With the increase in population the gauge of the water pipe lines which may be replaced warrant a wider gauge
- The sewer lines too, which were laid over three decades back warrant replacement with a wider gauge to meet the requirements. Meanwhile, a thorough mechanized cleaning of the sewer lines is urgently needed to avoid blockade.
- Timings of supply of water to be publicized for information of all residents.
- OHT, which has become redundant and obsolete should be replaced with UGR at the same location.
- Billing system to be streamlined and simplified replacing the existing one.
- MCD: Inner roads and service lanes are in a very bad shape and they are required to be re-carpetted at the earliest.
- The entire storm water drains warrant thorough cleaning up and malba to be removed soon thereafter.
- The drains to be covered with appropriate size of concrete slabs where they are exposed to the sky.
- Kitchen gardens to be demolished to make space for parking of vehicles which has become a menace
- Builders to be warned not to block the roads with construction materials and malba which are required to be stacked properly and removed periodically.
- We appreciate the efforts being made by the local sanitary staff in maintaining cleanliness of the colony to a large extent despite mounting garbage!
- BSES: Switch boxes at the appropriate places should be fixed on the street light poles to save electricity which will be taken care of by volunteers in the Society
- CFL bulbs to be made available at subsidized rates to the residents or at cost price which could save electricity.
- We highly appreciate the sincere Herculean efforts being made by the BSES in maintaining/repairing and attending to complaints promptly!
- DDA: No attention is being paid to one portion of the District Park (Anand Vihar side) facing the railway line for cleanliness, planting, watering, repair of the boundary walls etc.
- The walk-path requires repair/smoothening and avoid obstructions.
- A tree which had fallen a few months required to be removed.
- Provision of mast-light is urgently required for the benefit of senior citizens etc. who use the walking path in the nights as well.
- A few more concrete benches are required on this portion, indicated above, for the benefit of senior citizens
- Railway: The entire portion of land belonging to the Northern Railway at Anand Vihar railway station, Delhi Division, warrant through cleaning, lighting, sineage with display of timings of trains passing through this halt station and a clear path to reach the Anand Vihar terminal from this Anand Vihar suburban station. Frequent ticket checking is required to be made and eliminate unauthorized loading of commercial goods from this station to Ghaziabad etc.
T.K. Balu
Hony. Secretary
Railway Board Employees’ Cooperative Housing Society Ltd.
Anand Vihar, Delhi-92.
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
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