Senior Citizens’ Associations Activities
The World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD)-2020 HelpAge India: HelpAge India is a leading charitable organization working with and for older people in India for the past 42 years (Estd in 1978). It runs Age Care programmes throughout the country & advocates strongly for the cause of the elderly and fights for their rights. It also advises and facilitates the Central as well as State Government in formation of policies related to the elderly. On 15th June every year HelpAge India observes World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD) and…
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U-FERWAS Minutes of the Zoom Meeting A meeting of the U-FERWAS was held online on 8 June 2020. In his opening remarks Shri B.T.Srinivasan proposed a dialogue with higher ups in the ministry on the fallout of the lockdown in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. Mr. Ashwin Naidu, Anita Chavali, Major Shiv Kiran, Venu from Vijayawada, Suryaprakash from Alwal, Syed Khaled Shah joined the discussions. A few Core Points: 1.Relaxation of lockdown is playing havoc with the lives of common people 2. Health Infrastructure needs to be our maj…
Senior Citizens Updates - June 2020
Senior Citizens Associations HelpAge India On 21st May, GE & HelpAge India have distributed 500 hygienic kits in 3 remote villages of Huzurabad, Karimnagar Dist. TS. Also in cooperation with Fullerton, they distributed 785 hygienic Kits to the needy people in Razole & Mangalagiri of East Godavari & Guntur Districts in AP. Further, on the request of Dr. Nageswara Rao,Vice President Aasara in GHMC, Mohammad Ali of ‘Let’s Serve Foundation’ has distributed four monthly ration kits to poor Muslim families at Sriramnagar of yousaf…
RWA Management During the Lockdown
By Rao VBJ Chelikani Society leaders at the 4th Tier of Governance should avoid the temptation to don the mantle of dictatorial control and rather choose expressions of ‘soft power’ by persuading and convincing people Are the Resident Welfare Associations (RWAs) becoming unpopular? Before we reflect upon it, we have to register certain facts and events that confirm the phenomenon of RWAs as the undisputed representatives of urban micro-communities. No authority can ignore them anymore. No order of the government or the co…
CoRWA Updates - June 2020
On RERA Act A Zoom conference was held on Sunday, 31st May, 2020 from 11 am to 12h30 pm On the subject of: Provisions in respect of Advertisement, Marketing and Promotions U/ S 12 of RERA and its applicable Rules. Program Moderator – CA Vinay Thyagaraj, Bengaluru. Speakers: 1. CA. Ramesh Prabhu Mumbai - Opening Remarks on Importance of Promotion and Advertisement under RERA. 2. Adv. E Suhail Ahmed, Bengaluru - Requirement of Sec 12 and types of promotions etc. 3. CA. Pulkit Mehta, Indore, MP - Circular / Guidelines …
RWAs - Do They Require Re-registration?
By G. Jagadeswara Rao, B.Com., FCA.,DISA (ICAI), Tarnaka, Hyderabad I have explained the necessity and benefits of registration of a Resident Welfare Association (RWA) in Tarnaka Times in the month of June 2019, wherein I have written that Resident Welfare Association can still be registered under Andhra Pradesh Societies Registration Act, 2001 as Telangana State Real Estate (Development and Regulation) Rules 2017 permit it, and in the same article I have also explained the reasons why it is better to register the RWA as a Mut…
A Citizen’s Letter to his Chief Minister
To 30 th April, 2020 Sri. K. Chandrasekhara Rao garu, Hon’ble Chief Minister, Government of Telangana, Hyderabad Sir, The management of the Lockdown due to COVID 19 by your Government and the Administration has shown exceptional levels of efficiency, which normally the bureaucracy is not considered to be capable of. No doubt, your personal leadership has contributed to it. All the governmen...
Civil Society Contributions upto Lockdown-3
By Rao VBJ Chelikani While in a theocratic society or in a monarchy, the God or the king may be responsible, but in a democratic society all the citizens are collectively responsible for the destiny of their society. Particularly, during a natural or man-made calamity or an emergency, it is the whole society, spearheaded by its active civil society forces that usually jump into action with personal sacrifices. The Corona virus or the SARS-NCOV-2, is different from other calamities like floods, famine or fire, where a vast majority of peopl…
"Covid-19 Should not be an excuse to protect undue rights of Real Estate Promoters"
An Appeal by Col. Tejandra Pal Tyagi Corona should not be used as a shield to protect the undue rights of the Promoters 1st May is celebrated as the RERA Day. This time both the Promoters and the home buyers are in great trouble. Most of the labour have left the construction site and gone to their villages not only on account of the Lockdown restrictions but also owing to the recurring need of crop harvesting during this time of the year. UP RERA has indicated that other things remaining the same, construction work may resume by mid May. H…
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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Events in Mumbai Road Safety - Our Roles & Responsibility On 16th January an interactive session was organised by ‘Together VCAN’ (V Citizens Action Network) with Mumbai Police, Traffic Division, where Sri Madhukar Pande, IPS, Joint Commissioner Traffic Police met with citizens at Royal Bombay Yatch Club to discuss Road Safety- Our Roles & Responsibility. Housing Societies Pitch in to Help Senior Citizens Gautam Saigal, who acts as the co-ordinator for Raheja Hillside society in Chandivali, said that since “No domestic work…
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