Dengue: Accept the problem first to find a solution
India is under attack by the Aedes Aegypti mosquito leading to hundreds of suspected dengue deaths this season. And depending on which media you follow, Telangana and Delhi seem to be the most affected with the former having the dubious distinction of having the most affected patients, 4500 to 10,000, with some 150 plus cases reported in Delhi. According to News18 the death toll in Telangana on account of the dreaded vector borne illness has already crossed 56. However, this is only a guestimate as there are no verifiable official figures …
Greener Interior, Greener India, An Appeal to RWAs
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 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…
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…
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…
Administration in the District
More than the re-organisation of states, it is important to re-organise the 700 existing districts and multiply them by four times for the purposes of administrative viability, their specific development needs, as well as for self-governance. It is the British who formed the districts as administrative units in all the territories under their direct rule. Their formation was mostly based on their historical situations and military, revenue and administrative viability. After independence too, in the interests of consolidating national integrit…
Voter Awareness Campaign by UFERWAS
In the recent elections to the Telangana State Assembly, capital city Hyderabad recorded the lowest turnout at just 50% of the electorate. While this was attributed to voter apathy to a great extent, others pointed out to the widespread instances of missing names in the voter lists. Given that the General Elections are just 10 days away, the United Federation of Resident Welfare Associations (U-FERWAS) has joined hands with the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) to improve polling percentages in the city. Towards this, the apex RWA…
Homage to Martyrs
[wowslider id="6"] Several RWAs and Senior Citizens Associations all over T.S. and A.P conducted rallies with candles paying homage to the soldiers killed in Kashmir by terrorists.
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…
Our National Election Commission
By Dr.Rao VBJ. Chelikani It is time that the Election Commission of India becomes pro-active to promote better democratic practices on the part of our political class. It is probably one of the very few valiant institutions about which an average voter is not very cynical and whose objectivity, he does not doubt much. It has been, so far, able to protect the citizens’ statutory right to vote freely and fairly. With the introduction of the electronic voting machines with the possibility to visually verify one’s vote, its efficiency has increas…
Religions and Culture in India
With the emergence of an independent and awakened India, its culture is becoming more humanist, pacific, universal and inclusive, bereft of political or religious ideologies. By Dr. Rao VBJ Chelikani It would be interesting to understand a phenomenon that occurred very often in history in different parts of the world. We can produce a formula out of it: the higher the sophistication of a culture or civilisation of a nation, the lower would be its capacity to defend itself. Why did the mighty civilisations, so easily, succumb to physically das…
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…
Peoples’ engagement in infrastructure planning stressed
Survey points to why city residents should have a say in what their cities look like and better infrastructure execution TT News Network If expert opinion and the results of surveys carried out worldwide are anything to go by public engagement is the missing link in planning and executing public infrastructure in major cities globally. A recent survey of over 10,000 people in 10 global cities has shown that half or more respondents say there are interested but lack opportunities to provide feedback on infrastructure planning and decision-makin…
‘Pavement literacy’ a must for builders, owners, vaastu shastris
We must help planners, builders, architects, vastu shastris , vastu vidwans become “pavement-literate” to guide clients to leave footpaths encroachment free By Professor B. R. Sant* Vastu shastra Ancient Hindu architectural knowledge was a highly developed science more devoted to building of temples, but fairly advanced for dwellings too. Varahamira’s Brihat Samhita is perhaps the oldest Indian (Sanskrit) text that describes vastupurusamandala to plan cities and buildings including roads and pavements. Footpaths are for pedestrians Very m…
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…
Will pedestrians finally have their footpaths?
With the civic authorities resuming the drive to clear footpaths of encroachments perhaps there is still some hope for pedestrians in Hyderabad. With the dust settling on the election trail and elections to the State Assembly now over the city administration seems to have revived its drive to unsettle the footpath settlers in right earnest. The Telangana Today newspaper reports that the Enforcement Vigilance and Disaster Management (EVDM) wing of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has resumed its drive to clear encroachments …
18th AISCCON Conlcudes Successfully
The All India Senior citizens Confederation’s 18 th Annual National Conference was organized on 29 th and 30 th November, 2018 in Hyderabad hoisted by the Association of Senior Citizens of Hyderabad, with the support of local federation TESCCON and FESCO- T. The conference was organized by patrons, Hon’ble Justice Subhashan Reddy and Sri. Vijaya Rama Rao, Ex- Director, CBI with Organising Committee Chairman Sri. R.N. Mital and co-chairman, Sri. I.M. Bhalla with Sri. T. Hanumantha Rao and Sri. V. Mohan Reddy as Vice- Chairmen. The total n…
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