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 government officers have been working very intensively wi…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Prime Minister has announced a massive package totaling 10% of India’s GDP or Rs 20 lakh crore to revive the economy. Dubbed the Atmanirbhar Abhiyaan , is no doubt very much needed. Since he also announced his intention to develop Infrastructure, Mr. Nagarjunan from an NGO called ‘Focus’ in Chennai has seized on the occasion to suggest spending a good part of it on a mammoth project for ‘Rejuvenation, Inter-Linking and Equitable Distribution of River Waters’ in the country. Such a long term project woul…
Though in the annual GB Meeting held in Nov.2019 in New Delhi on the occasion of the 7th NCRWA, it was decided to hold the 8th NCRWA Conference at Chennai, our Sr.Exe Vice President, CoRWA, Sri JMS Nagarjunan, in view of the developments since March, 2020 found it not feasible to envisage it in Chennai. However, in the 3rd Anniversary Conference of RERA recently organised in virtual mode from Mumbai by CA Ramesh Prabhu, in which some of our CoRWA members have participated, the following developments have taken place. 1. A new member is i…
Necessity they say is the mother of invention. Locked up, as they are, within the confines of their homes for the past one month thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic, citizens have realized finding fresh vegetables and supplies has become the biggest challenge. No worries! Retail chains and farmers alike have risen to the occasion innovating, and in fact reinventing age old practices of cooperative sourcing. Several farmers across cities like Hyderabad, Bengaluru and NCR region, have now taken the initiative of reaching out to RWAs…
The Director General of Police, Telangana State made a fervent appeal to the residents of the Apartment-buildings and Colony associations to form a committee of 2 members in each association to cooperate with him to prevent the Corona virus contamination. Self-Confinement and Personal Cleanliness in Kurnool An appeal is made to the public before the Collectorate office to observe the Janata Curfew as proposed by our Prime Minister, Sri. Narendra Modi on 22 nd and to take other measures of self-c…
Women’s day Celebrations, at Delhi From Ranju Minhas
Maharashtra Societies Welfare Association (MahaSeWA), Mumbai 1. A meeting was convened by CA. Ramesh Prabhu, Chairman, MahaSeWA in order to prepare a representation to the chief minister on the implementation of GR dated 13-9-2019 on 13 th March 2020 in MahaSeWA conference room. In the meeting chaired by Hon'ble Shri.Nirmal Deshmukh, IAS (Rtd) former CEO of SRA, the following have been invited to participate: (1) Ar.Manoj Daisaria, Past President PEATA (2) Ar. Arvind Wadke, Treasurer, Indian Institute of Architects, Mu…
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