Thanks to the suffering we are facing on account of pollution, concern for safeguarding the environment is at its peak. Air pollution, including indoor air pollution, is perhaps as damaging as most other forms of pollution, especially to children and senior citizens apart from women who spend more time than men in the house. As we all know, the atmosphere sustains life in nature by providing oxygen for humans to breathe and carbon dioxide for plants to make food. Air clean and not so clean We the humans consume oxygen in the ai…
From Sri S.Muralidharan of MH2 Owners welfare Association: Which is the competent authority for registering the Resident Welfare Association? 1. Apartment Owners’ Associations (consisting of either one or more towers) can be registered: Under Rule 7 (c) of Telangana Apartments (Promotion of Construction & Ownership) Rules, 1987 (Rules). The Competent Authority to register the Association is Commissioner for Co-operation and Registrar of Co-operative Societies. Requirement to be fulfilled: Minimum number of members 5 – S…
Voice of Gajuwaka: A Brief Profile Visakhapatnam, called the City of Destiny, is the biggest city in the State of Andhra Pradesh, a port city, often called as "The Jewel of the East Coast", with a population of about 20 lakhs. The Voice of Gajuwaka (A Federation of the Resident Welfare Associations (RWAs) of Gajuwaka (GVMC – Zone V), is a part of our APFERWAS (AP Federation of RWAs). Having stood as a municipality and later as Special Grade Municipality and by virtue of being amidst several leading & important industr…
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…
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 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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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