Reflections on World Environment Day 2023
Dr Rao VBJ Chelikani The United Nations Organisation has declared this Day, after a series of consultations with member-states as well as with Non-Governmental Organisations across the world, in order to provide a platform for an annual review of the issue of our pre-occupation or the concept, as well as to a review of the past efforts for future orientation. The following remarks would be limited to challenging some old myths and inviting the readers to reflect afresh and adopt appropriate attitudes toward…
RWA Commitments for Better Environment
Dr. VBJ Rao Chelikani Change or evolution is in the nature of our Nature. But changes in man and by man have become more voluntary, faster and are impacting upon this entire planet. At present, we have not yet to be concerned about other planets and other galaxies. While the universe seems to be operating and evolving on an immutable logic of its own, the human being, however is able to gradually grasp the process of the Universe and understand the mechanisms of operation of the planet and is able to make changes to suit not on…
Eighth National Conference of RWAs Held Successfully
Hon'ble Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat inaugurating the meet virtually The eighth national conference of RWAs was organized at Ghaziabad UP from 23rd to 24th November 2021, at Krishna Engineering College by the Confederation of Resident Welfare Associations (CoRWA): the National Apex Body of RWAs and Confederation of Resident Welfare Associations-Uttar Pradesh (CoRWA-UP) -an Apex body of RWAs at state level of Uttar Pradesh. The focal theme of this conference was “Drinking Water”. The 8th NCRWA was endorsed and supported by M…
How RWAs can Help Mitigate Climate Change
The nature of our Nature and its environment is to change, since it is in constant flux, evolution and acceleration, whether it is induced by the human beings or not. In the course of the past life of the planet, many species have disappeared, but we want to survive! Since human habitations are also evolving and changing for the better, though not to the extent desired, we have to make efforts to see that the climate changes would be in harmony with our needs. Since the Industrial Revolution, our…
Vaccination Drive in RWAs
Mr. B.T. Srinivasan, General Secretary of UFERWAS, Hyderabad has convened a Zoom meeting on 26 th May of office-bearers of UFERWAS with the Hon’ble Minister for Finance Sri Harish Rao garu on vaccination camps to be organised in RWA areas. As a consequence of which, the Government of Telangana in their R.C. No./DPHFW/Peshi/ COVID-19/2021-72 has issued by the Directorate of Health has permitted vaccination of all above 18 years and authorized the private hospitals to proceed on the request of the companies, institutions and the RWAs. RW…
How Drunk-on-power Housing Societies Flex their Muscles ?
The White Tiger and its forensic scrutiny of class is now a Hollywood film but the author of the novel, Aravind Adiga, missed a trick when he portrayed his upper middle class characters’ contempt for the poor. The real pools of pure concentrated class hatred are the middle class and nothing embodies this hatred, the desire to make the poor invisible, to airbrush them out of the landscape, than Resident Welfare Associations. The minutes of one such RWA meeting in New Delhi ruled that, in the interests of preventing noise pollution, street …
Pandemic turns RWAs Atmanirbhar
Lockdown opens up new opportunities for residents' associations to lighten their bills Team TT Never waste a good crisis, said Winston Churchill. And some progressive retailers and RWAs alike seem to have taken it to heart to make the most of the current pandemic. Notwithstanding the widespread criticism of many RWA managements on their approach to running affairs during the crisis, there seems to be at least some positive outcome from it. True to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call for Atmanirbhar, many resident associations seem …
Covid-19 and RWAs - A Piece of Advice to One and All
We should, hereafter use the term Domestic Worker' as laid down by the Domestic Workers Act 2010. A “Domestic Worker” means, a person who is employed for remuneration whether in cash or kind , in any house hold ‘or similar Establishments’ through any agency or directly, either on a temporary or contract basis or permanent, part time or full time to do the household or allied work includes a “Replacement worker” who is working and as a replacement for the main workers for a short and specific period of time as agreed with the main worker; E…
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