India is under attack by the Aedes Aegypti mosquito leading to hundreds of suspected dengue deaths this season. And depending on which media you follow, Telangana and Delhi seem to be the most affected with the former having the dubious distinction of having the most affected patients, 4500 to 10,000, with some 150 plus cases reported in Delhi. According to News18 the death toll in Telangana on account of the dreaded vector borne illness has already crossed 56. However, this is only a guestimate as there are no verifiable official figures …
The Apex Court also upheld the right of pedestrians to free footpaths and directed civic authorities to clear all encroachments. It also stressed on innovative solutions to parking woes Passenger vehicle sales in India have hit rock bottom, down 30% in August, the steepest fall since the year 2000. The sector is facing production shutdowns, portending widespread job losses and a deep recession in the Indian economy. However, while the Indian auto industry is battling the problem of too few customers, the Supreme Court of India …
The 73rd Independence Day was celebrated with fervour and patriotism by constituent members of the SCOTRWA and CoRWA across the country. Here is a pictorial recap of the Celebrations! Nagarjuna Nagar, Tarnaka Railway Colony, Hyderabad Gokul Nagar KPHB colony, Hyderabad Kalakshetram in Tarnaka Sanath Nagar Tarnaka Women Welfare Association Saidabad Senior Citizens Association & Walkers Association Vaishali Gardens, Tarnaka Gouthamnagar, Sanitation Committee S.R Nagar Shanthinagar club and welfare Assn Army Public School, RK Puram MMRWA, Pha…
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 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…
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 …
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 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…
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,…
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…
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…
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