CII Water Innovation Summit [caption id="attachment_3031" align="aligncenter" width="921"] CoRWA Team with delegates at the 5th CII Water Innovation Summit.2019 5th CII Water Innovation Summit-2019[/caption] The CII Water Innovation Summit was held on 18th and 19th Sept., 2019 at New Delhi is attended by Col TP Tayagi, Mrs Ranju Minhas, Mr Joseph Verghese and Mr Ashish singh. Mrs Ranju Minhas proposed that the corporates and the industries should allocate CSR funding on raising awareness on preventing water pollu…
The Forum for Senior Citizens Tarnaka (FSCT), observed the World Elders’ Day on October 2 nd , coinciding with Gandhi Jayanthi. The programme was held at the Nagarjuna Nagar Community Hall, Tarnaka. Professor K Venugopala Reddy, President Nagarjunanagar Welfare Association welcomed the gathering, while Shri Om Prakash, general secretary, FESCO spoke on the significance of World Elders' Day. Prof. VLS Bhimasankaram spoke on the relevance of Mahatma Gandhi's teachings while retired IAEA scientist, professor GVSRK Somayajuly spoke on …
The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Telangana State Council, Hyderabad, has invited Professor B. R. Sant to be a member of the Panel on Telangana Culture & Tourism. "In view of your vast experience and interest in this field. I am writing to cordially invite you to be a Member of this Panel for the year 2019-2020,” Ms Vanita Datla, Convenor - CII Telangana Culture and Tourism Panel said in a message to him. In its first meeting held recently, Professor Sant submitted a proposal on TOURISM DEVELOPMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE OF ENCR…
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…
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…
Latest data from the Telangana Ground Water Department portends a dire situation for the state with ground water levels depleting more than ever Tarnaka Times, Hyderabad Notwithstanding the onset of monsoons in the state, albeit several days late, the rains do not auger well for denizens in Telangana. Rather, if latest studies by the Ground Water Department, are anything to go by, dry days will be the order of the day with acute water shortages foretold for the state in the coming days and months. Telangana ended the Water Year 2018-19 (June t…
Hyderabadis are sucking dry Mother Earth faster than the Rain Gods are able to quench her thirst. So much so, they are using up water at a rate that is 600% to 140% of the annual recharge rate of the water table in the city, the Hindu newspaper reported quoting government scientists. “The groundwater table in Hyderabad and Telangana is going down rapidly as the extraction rate is high. On an average, Hyderabad is drawing 340% of the annual recharge volume,” the newspaper quoted Pandith Madhnure, Director of the Telangana Groundwater Department…
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…
Resident associations have strongly protested the removal of up to 1000 hanging baskets in the Ghaziabad area which they say were not only beautifying the area but also effectively controlling pollutions. Chairman RWA Federation Col.T.P. Tyagi said that for the past 20 years, crores of rupees were spent on plantation of lakhs of trees in the area. And as part of this drive the hanging baskets that were set up were meant not only for beautification but also to fight pollution. Shri Mukeh Agarwal Federation Secretary said hanging baskets can be …
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…
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…
Mother’s Day celebrations were held with gusto by the newly formed Tarnaka Women’s Welfare Association (TWWA), at the Tarnaka Community Centre on Sunday 12 May 2019. The fledgling body is the Women’s Wing of the Standing Committee of Tarnaka Residents’ Welfare Association (SCOTRWA), and includes women representatives from the four colonies of Tarnaka–Gokul Nagar, Keemti Colony, Nagarjuna Nagar and Tarnaka. Events were spread over four days and started with Lalitha Sahasranamam chanting at the Mahila Bhavan at Nagarjuna Nagar. Unmindful of the …
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…
A report on Long Term Care of Elderly prepared by HelpAge India was released on 18-03-2019 by Dr. Imtiaz Ahmed, Mathew Cherian, J.R.Gupta, Dr.A.B Dey, Kiran Karnik, Manmohan Sharma, Prof. Sivaraju, and Ms.Caitlin Littleton. The report was based on the problems faced by elderly in Leh (J & K), Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) and Coddalore (Tamil Nadu), where 59% of the elderly suffer from long term diseases and need help to carry out basic activities such as bathing and dressing etc. On this occasion, Hari Baskaran,(70), was welcomed and felici…
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 …
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