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An Exemplary Green Enclave!

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 …

SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOCIATIONS UPDATE

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 Note on Registration of Apartment Owners’ Association

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…

Landmark judgement upholds homebuyer’s status as financial creditors to developers

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,…

Hyderabadis use WiFi the most in India

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…

A Letter to All Political Parties in Telangana in View of Forthcoming Municipal Elections

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…