Independence Day Celebrations 2019
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…
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…
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…
CoRWA Updates
Alwal Civil Society sensitises GHMC of colony issues GAASA Team in Alwal met the Dy Commissioner, GHMC in the Prajavani programme and informed him of long pending problems being faced by Alwal Citizens. The DC was very pleased to receive the consolidated representation of the civic issues covering 133, 134 and 135 Divisions. The GAASA Team comprising of Dr G V Rao, Mr Upender Goud, Mr Venkatratnam, Mr Mathur, Mr Solomon Raj, Mr Ramchandraiah mentioned a number of issues to be resolved at the earliest, i.e. before J…
Election Watch – A.P.: Expenditure in Elections
Elections have become the preserve of the ultra-rich in India as expenditure in the recent elections shows with the money spent more than doubling to Rs 60,000 crore, several speakers at a recent Election Watch meeting expressed. The meeting on “Expenditure in elections and its regulation” was held at the Freedom Fighters Bhavan in Vijayawada on June 18, based on the results of a survey by Centre for Media Studies. Speaking, on the occasion the CMS Chairman, Sri. N. Bhaskara Rao expressed agony that the working of the EVMs and Election Commiss…
Strict action against Resident & Apartment Associations that Ban Pets
Restrictions against pets in residential complexes punishbale under Section 11 (3) of Prevention of Cruelty to Animal Act 1960 apart from going against Article 51 A (g) of the Indian Constitution It is a well-known that in the recent times, RWAs, apartment owners' associations, cooperative group housing societies and other gated complexes, have taken to imposing many unreasonable restrictions on pet-owning residents, such as disallowing the use of lifts or parks by pets, or even banning pets altogether. It is against the law to ban pets …
CoRWA demands measures for addressing footpath encroachments by house builders and buildings
CoRWA, the national apex body of residential welfare associations has appealed to the central government to direct the Urban Local Bodies (ULB)s to take stock of encroachment of footpaths by individual houses and large buildings across the country. In a communication to the Union Minister of Civil Aviation & Housing and Urban Affairs, Col Tejandra Pal Tyagi, Convener, CoRWA pointed out that among the three categories of footpath encroachers well heeled house and building owners are the who flout the law more blatantly while the other categ…
Punjab & Haryana High Court orders all registered RWAs to comply with RTI norms
The order makes it mandatory for all RWAs, to appoint a Public Information Officer (PIO), responsible for communication coordination and a first appellate authority designated to hear appeals. By S Sreedhar In a significant precedent-setting judgment that could have far reaching implications for RWAs, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has ruled that all societies registered under the Haryana Regulation and Registration of Societies Act (HRRS), 2012, have to become fully compliant with the provisions of the Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2005…
Mesures to control pollution in Ghaziabad
CoRWA Updates Air Pollution can be Controlled by Political & Administrative Will in Ghaziabad Induct 300 CNG City Busses in Big Cities : PM 2.5 in air pollution is created mainly due to vehicular emissions and stubble burning. If we have adequate number of CNG City busses whose frequency is known and whose destination is compatible to last mile connectivity, people will decrease the use of their personal cars. Consequently the deadly PM 2.5, PM 1 and Benzene will get diminished in the Air. (PM 2.5 means particula…
Resident Welfare Associations can contribute big to conserve water
A case study from JR Nagar RWA in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh Water is one of the vital components of life. The rapid pace of irrigation growth, urbanisation and industrialisation has put enormous stress on the water resources. Cumulative impact of the increase in usage of this precious natural resource has led to water scarcity in many regions of the country. Climate change has also resulted in change in the hydrologic cycle. Across the world, water is becoming scarce. The needs are increasing and the resources are dwindling. Hence, it is n…
FPCE demands MoHUA guidelines for “ready-to-move-in” real estate regime
Hyderabad, Team TT - The Forum for People’s Collective Efforts (FPCE), earlier known as “Fight for RERA”, which was at the forefront of the movement for enacting RERA, has urged the Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA), to facilitate a painless and gradual transition of ownership rights from developers/builders to homeowners. For this it is necessary that the MoHUA formulate guidelines to set in place the mechanism for a “ready-to-move-in” system to enable an easy and gradual transition for both developers and homebuyers devoid of mal…
Residents rise to protect lake in Hyderabad
RWAs in the Ramakrishnapuram Lake area have taken it upon themselves to map waterbody and demand it's protection from encroachments and better implementation of development works This could perhaps be the story of any other lake in the twin-cities that are on the verge of death and the proposed cure to revive them threatening to be worse than the disease itself. The Ramakrishnapuram Lake, also known as Mukidi Cheruvu, located in Neredmet, near Ramakrishnapuram Railway Station in Hyderabad, was home to many migratory birds not very…
CoRWA Updates
[caption id="attachment_1727" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Release of the All India RWA’s Manifesto 2019 by Shri. Dinesh Chandra, Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation along with Col. Tejendra Pal Tyagi[/caption] 28 candidates shortlisted from hundreds of nominations for Namma Bengaluru Awards Trust Invited the public to the 10 th Namma Bengaluru Awards on Saturday 27 April 2019 at Dr BR Ambedkar Bhavan, Millers Road, Vasanth Nagar, Bengaluru. Recognizing unsung Heroes who have had a positive impact on Namma Beng…
New Telangana Municipal Act should recognize RWAs, Trust and confidence should be cornerstone to new Act, RWAs to government
The new Municipal Act proposed to be legislated by Telangana, replacing the antiquated 1965 Act, should provide constitutional recognition to Resident Welfare Associations (RWA)s according them quasi-Urban Local Body (ULB) status, RWAs have suggested to the state government. Further, the new legislation should be predicated on a technology-assisted governance model based on trust and confidence for better service delivery by Urban Local Bodies (ULB) including the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), they stressed participating in an…
CORWA Updates - APFERWAS Spreads Wings, Vijayawada Chapter Soon
The relentless efforts of APFERWAS Core Team to spread the RWA movement across the state are bearing fruit with residential associations in Vijayawada gearing up to open up activities from this emerging global city. Nearly 40 members of 16 RWAs in the city attended an interactive meeting organised by APFERWAS at the Institution of Engineers hall in Dr.K.L.Rao Bhavan. While Sri Uday Shirname, President of APFERWAS welcomed the attendees, the Associate President Dr.K.S.R.Murty made a powerpoint presentation and explained the genesis, activities …
CoRWA: The Crusader for RWAs
The ultimate objective of CoRWA is to link the RWA Mission from state to city and up to even the Gram Panchayat level. Some models are being prepared to this effect. Significantly, CoRWA feels RWAs should form the fourth tier of local self-government in line with the central, state, and local bodies as the urban residents are unfortunately under-represented in all the three tiers of governance, says Dr K S R Murthy in this article that appeared earlier in Terra Green, the journal of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). A resident welfar…
CORWA Updates - JR Nagar gets national award for water management
[wowslider id="5"] JR Nagar Welfare Association, Visakhapatnam has been recognized among the top three best RWAs in India by the Ministry of Water Resources, Govt. of India. The Ministry recognizes RWAs every year in 14 categories. One of these is the Best RWA for Water Mangement. The Award carries a cash prize of Rs.1 lakh and a citation. The Awards were given at a function on 25th February by Sri Arjun Ram Meghwal, Minister of State, Water Resources at a function held in Mavalankar Auditorium, Constitutional Club, New Delhi. The Aw…
TS RERA Forced to extend deadline for registration a 5th time
Builders disregard advisories to register repeatedly despite the threat of hefty penalties by TS RERA Reflecting the obvious reluctance to be regulated, real estate developers and other players in the real estate sector, has shown a lukewarm response to the call by the Telangana Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA), to get registered with the Authority. To date applications from only 3100 of the estimated 5000 plus projects in the Telangana state have been received. As a result, the TS RERA has been forced to yet again extend the deadline …
MahaRERA Chairman asks home owners to test TS RERA rules in court
TS RERA organizes 1 st stake-holder workshop By B T Srinivasan Hyderabad, January 19 Quite expectedly, the first stake-holder interaction organized by the Telangana State Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA), on Friday, 18 January, saw divergent views and focus from developers, promoters and buyers pressing their own standpoints. Significantly, the Workshop convened by the TS RERA was addressed by none other than Shri Gautham Chatterjee, Chairman of the Maharashtra RERA (MahaRERA), on which the TS RERA is modelled. Further TS RERA also use…
It is Survekshan time again!
All participants gear up to put up a better show in the prestigious National level rankings for clean-city tag in the Survekshan With Union Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs Shri Hardeep Singh Puri kicking off the World’s largest cleanliness survey - the Swachh Survekshan 2019 on Friday, the die is cast for all actors in the exercise to play their part. The United Federation of RWAs (UFERWAS), body of over 3000 Resident Welfare Associations from Greater Hyderabad area, has accordingly upped the ante this year seeking to increase particip…
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