GPAs AT CROSSROAD AGAIN

<h1>GPAs AT CROSSROAD AGAIN</h1>Author: <a title="Satish Chandra Sharma" href="http://www.articlesbase.com/authors/satish-chandra-sharma/89388.htm">Satish Chandra Sharma</a> Tuesday 7th April, 2009
GPAs again at crossroad: Cooperative House Building societies in Chandigarh bogged down by malpractices, bungling. 
 
Chandigarh: The cooperative movement was supposed to be a backbone in a country like India and that it was based on the assumption that it shall provide affordable housing to people of the city but was proved just a myth and nothing else. 
 
Cooperative house building societies were set up in Chandigarh in eighties to provide affordable housing to the members, but with passage of time, these societies were turning defunct as many of those who originally registered as members starting deserting the shares held by them on the instrument of the power of attorney.
Gradually a large class of the GPA holders emerged on the scene, their money became instrumental in completing the projects, and this saved them from getting defunct. However once the projects were completed and the original allottees became miniscule in numbers, they played havoc and those who had sold their flats and alienated their legal rights in the dwellings played the shots and started treating the GPA holders as second class citizens in the societies. This led to creeping in of malpractices, bungling and defrauds in the functioning of these societies.
GPA holders were outraged against this treatment and started an agitation, which was led by me. Thousands of families were to benefit from the outcome of the agitation; and the victory was achieved once the administration agreed to regularize the occupancy rights of the GPA holders in these societies. However, this achievement could not assuage the hurt feelings of the GPA holders as they were made to pay hefty transfer fee running into several lakhs.
Protests continued and I was finally able to get a public friendly policy notification which was hailed by one and all as the transfer fees was drastically reduced and was fixed at Rs. 15000/ for Category C, Rs. 25000/ for Category B and Rs. 50,000/- for Category A flats. These transfer rates were notified by the administration in a partial modification of its earlier order pronounced on 21 st August 2008.
Under the modified policy notification, the Presidents of the managing bodies of these cooperative housing societies are authorized to act as a nodal agency and to screen the GPA documents and transfer the share in his / her favour on deposit of the requisite fee. This simple procedure is turning complex by imposing various conditions of their own liking causing huge mental tension and harassment to the GPA holders
Some of the conditions are not only utopian are laced with corruption to extract money from the GPA holder. This comes as demand for development and range between 10,000/ to 50,000/. Then one society management says that the GPA is useless as their byelaws assert that the GPA holder should be a Gazetted Officer of their department. Another society asserts that as a few of the flats remain to be completed, they will start the work only after the flats get completed. In addition, the incomplete flats belong to such allottees that are defaulters of payment to the society and such flats may not get completed in the near future.
Whatever be the excuse, the only idea behind putting such bottlenecks is that they still want to play the shots in the management of the societies. This has put the hapless GPA holder at a crossroad again who is now very afraid of his plight. That is why I had said, “A battle has been won by the GPA holders, but the war is on.”
Satish Chandra Sharma,
General Secretary,
Chandigarh Social Welfare council,
Email: <a href="mailto:sharma.ambakripa@gmail.com">sharma.ambakripa@gmail.com</a>
Cell: 9888 255 128About the Author: A Post Graduate in Economics from University of Delhi and a Social activist now. Presently as General Secretary of Chandigarh Social Welfare Council, an NGO, am working in the field of up gradation of infrastructure and regularization of the General Power of Attorney holders in cooperative housing societies at Chandigarh.At my initiative, Chandigarh Administration has done a re-look into the matter raised by me. The rules sought to be applied till now have been observed as "repealed" by the JSF, Chandigarh Administration, yet some of the junior level functionaries are passing on the matter to their seniors in a mechanical manner and hence the woes of the hapless GPAs have yet to be redressed by the Administration. I shall continue writing on the subject and every subsequent article shall endeavor to bring out the anamoliedArticle Source: <a href="http://www.articlesbase.com/">ArticlesBase.com</a> - <a href="http://www.articlesbase.com/writing-articles/gpas-at-crossroad-again-854469.html" title="GPAs AT CROSSROAD AGAIN">GPAs AT CROSSROAD AGAIN</a>

Tuesday 7th April, 2009

GPAs again at crossroad: Cooperative House Building societies in Chandigarh bogged down by malpractices, bungling.

Chandigarh: The cooperative movement was supposed to be a backbone in a country like India and that it was based on the assumption that it shall provide affordable housing to people of the city but was proved just a myth and nothing else.

Cooperative house building societies were set up in Chandigarh in eighties to provide affordable housing to the members, but with passage of time, these societies were turning defunct as many of those who originally registered as members starting deserting the shares held by them on the instrument of the power of attorney.

Gradually a large class of the GPA holders emerged on the scene, their money became instrumental in completing the projects, and this saved them from getting defunct. However once the projects were completed and the original allottees became miniscule in numbers, they played havoc and those who had sold their flats and alienated their legal rights in the dwellings played the shots and started treating the GPA holders as second class citizens in the societies. This led to creeping in of malpractices, bungling and defrauds in the functioning of these societies.

GPA holders were outraged against this treatment and started an agitation, which was led by me. Thousands of families were to benefit from the outcome of the agitation; and the victory was achieved once the administration agreed to regularize the occupancy rights of the GPA holders in these societies. However, this achievement could not assuage the hurt feelings of the GPA holders as they were made to pay hefty transfer fee running into several lakhs.

Protests continued and I was finally able to get a public friendly policy notification which was hailed by one and all as the transfer fees was drastically reduced and was fixed at Rs. 15000/ for Category C, Rs. 25000/ for Category B and Rs. 50,000/- for Category A flats. These transfer rates were notified by the administration in a partial modification of its earlier order pronounced on 21 st August 2008.

Under the modified policy notification, the Presidents of the managing bodies of these cooperative housing societies are authorized to act as a nodal agency and to screen the GPA documents and transfer the share in his / her favour on deposit of the requisite fee. This simple procedure is turning complex by imposing various conditions of their own liking causing huge mental tension and harassment to the GPA holders

Some of the conditions are not only utopian are laced with corruption to extract money from the GPA holder. This comes as demand for development and range between 10,000/ to 50,000/. Then one society management says that the GPA is useless as their byelaws assert that the GPA holder should be a Gazetted Officer of their department. Another society asserts that as a few of the flats remain to be completed, they will start the work only after the flats get completed. In addition, the incomplete flats belong to such allottees that are defaulters of payment to the society and such flats may not get completed in the near future.

Whatever be the excuse, the only idea behind putting such bottlenecks is that they still want to play the shots in the management of the societies. This has put the hapless GPA holder at a crossroad again who is now very afraid of his plight. That is why I had said, “A battle has been won by the GPA holders, but the war is on.”

Satish Chandra Sharma,

General Secretary,

Chandigarh Social Welfare council,

Email: sharma.ambakripa@gmail.com

Cell: 9888 255 128

A Post Graduate in Economics from University of Delhi and a Social activist now. Presently as General Secretary of Chandigarh Social Welfare Council, an NGO, am working in the field of up gradation of infrastructure and regularization of the General Power of Attorney holders in cooperative housing societies at Chandigarh.At my initiative, Chandigarh Administration has done a re-look into the matter raised by me. The rules sought to be applied till now have been observed as "repealed" by the JSF, Chandigarh Administration, yet some of the junior level functionaries are passing on the matter to their seniors in a mechanical manner and hence the woes of the hapless GPAs have yet to be redressed by the Administration. I shall continue writing on the subject and every subsequent article shall endeavor to bring out the anamolied

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