Reduce, Re-use and Recycle
An RWA Practical Guide to Water Management The Confederation of RWAs, the only national organisation of the urban residents is going to prepare and print a guide booklet of around 15 pages to be released at the 7th NCRWA in Delhi, and it will be a part its Annual National Status Report or the Souvenir. The Practical Guide will include the 20-Point RWA Charter for Swachh Bharat, which is already in wide circulation. The Practical guide can be released by every RWA in their place and in their regional language to coincide with the commemoratio…
Greener Interior, Greener India, An Appeal to RWAs
Greener Interior: Greener India :: An Appeal It is urgent that we now vote for a Greener India and thereby for a better quality of life in India. As Resident Welfare Associations we want to see by the end of the rainy season that there is a beautiful and lush green plant in each room in our houses, in our schools, in our offices, in our shops and in our eateries - at the windows, desks and counters, hanging plants in the corridors and halls, roof gardens, vegetable gardens, and creepers on the compound walls. Especially, the senior citizens an…
An Exemplary Green Enclave!
Setting an example for many other RWAs to follow, residents of the Gautami Enclave in Kondapur have been breathing life into the community through Project Neer for eight years now, reports The Hindu newspaper. That the 90 plus rainwater harvesting pits, the 100 plus foot injection wells, and speed breakers in the colony which double up as water channels, are indeed doing what they are intended to do is evident from the 5000 plus burgeoning saplings in the colony of 70 buildings. On a good rainy day, the Project Neer system helps save upwards …
SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOCIATIONS UPDATE
HelpAge India Awareness Session HelpAge India organised an awareness programme on MWPSC Act-07 with the support of Senior Citizens Association, Adilabad at Pensioners Bhavan. Later, they handed over a memorandum to Mrs. Sadana, Deputy-DM&HO, Adilabad, requesting her to implement MWPSC Act-07 section 20 (Health Security for Senior Citizens) in Adilabad district. Seniors Day Out [caption id="attachment_2817" align="aligncenter" width="1040"] Seniors Day Out[/caption] Deendayal Nagar Senior Citizens Welfare A…
A Note on Registration of Apartment Owners’ Association
A Resident Welfare Association which is an Apartment / Flat Owners’ Association can be registered under Telangana Apartments (Promotion of Construction and Ownership) Act, 1987. An Amendment Rule 7 of Telangana Apartments (Promotion of Construction and Ownership) Rules, 1987 was made by G.O. Ms. No. 42, MA & UD (M1) Dept., dated 02-02-2013 to enable Apartment / Flat owners’ associations to get them registered under the Act. The amended Rule lays down that: (c) The commissioner for Co-operation and Registrar of Co-operative Societies, Hy…
Landmark judgement upholds homebuyer’s status as financial creditors to developers
RERA & IBC sister acts, says SC Team TT Dismissing the plea of over 200 real estate companies holding the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) illegal and unconstitutional, a Supreme Court bench headed by Justice RF Nariman upheld the right of homebuyers for redressal under the new Code. In effect homebuyers will be considered financial creditors to the real estate companies and can take recourse to the IBC against defaulting developers. The Bench in its judgement on August 9, held that the RERA Act, which regulates the real estate sector,…
Hyderabadis use WiFi the most in India
Students in Hyderabad spend the most time on WiFi putting the city of the Nizam’s at the top of the list of cities spending the highest percentage of time connected to WiFi. Considered among the top university cities of the country, users in the Hyderabad spent a quarter of their time online using WiFi networks, according to Opensignal, a mobile analytics company that measures usage of mobile networks on various parameters. This puts Hyderabad ahead of Mumbai and Bangalore in the usage of WiFi notwithstanding the lower proliferation of WiFi in…
A Letter to All Political Parties in Telangana in View of Forthcoming Municipal Elections
15th July, 2019 Sir, There are going to be elections in the state of Telangana for the municipalities and corporations very soon and they will be followed by elections to the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation also under a new Act. Naturally, all parties would be nominating their candidates to be councillors and corporators. We wish you success in your party’s efforts, notwithstanding the fact that we are not sure that political parties should be involved in local self-governing communities. Now, on behalf of a number of civil society or…
AdvantAge - Discount Card for Senior Citizens
AdvantAge - Discount Card for Senior Citizens Helpage India offers a unique facility for senior citizens who can claim discounts on various products and services by enrolling for its Senior Citizen’s Discount card. The products and services include a range of offering beginning with discounts at chemists, path labs, clinics, eye and dental care centres, wellness centres, hotels, online travel sites and many more. Access smart living tips on care for your health, financial planning, choosing Insurance schemes, planning ho…
Link to city’s evolution snapped
Hyderabad’s heritage sites are a fast disappearing legacy if current trends are anything to go by. Nine out of 10 pre-historic archaeological sites in Hyderabad and its surrounding areas listed in the new Heritage Act of Telangana, 2017, are no longer traceable, writes Sirish Nanisetty writing in the Hindu quoting archaeologists and officials of Department of Heritage, Telangana. With the disappearance of these 3,000-2,500-year-old sites, Hyderabad has lost a part of its heritage that traced the city’s evolution to the late Stone Age period. …
Doctors’ Day Observed by TWWA
Over 150 members of the community benefit from free medical camp Tarnaka Women's Welfare Association conducted free Eye and Dental camps on July 1 2019 at Gokul Nagar grounds coinciding with the Doctors’ Day. Nearly 150 members of the community availed the opportunity to benefit the free service that was offered by the Clove Dental Clinic and the Anand Eye Institute, which also run their clinics in the Tarnaka and Nagarjuna Nagar areas. The role of doctors in society was acknowledged with gratitude on the day. July 1 is obse…
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