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GPA holders pick holes in review panel report

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI, SEPT. 21. The Residents' Front on Delhi Cooperative Societies Act has criticised the report of the Review Committee entrusted the job of suggesting amendments to the Delhi Cooperative Societies Act 2003 to the Delhi Government on the grounds that it has failed to make suggestions that take care of the demands of the general power of attorney (GPA) holders.

Averring that most of the proposed amendments support the managements' cause and favour original allottees, the Front convenor, Sanjiv Kumar, said the GPA holders have been discriminated against as the Committee has pronounced a mandatory free-hold clause for them if they desire to become members in their respective societies. "Further, it has also endorsed a membership fee of Rs.10,000/- to be charged from the aspiring GPA occupants, which in reality is a way of legalising entry fee that has already been banned by courts in their rulings and also by the Registrar Cooperative Societies in his notification issued time and again," he said.

Mr Kumar said the Review Committee has not only rejected and ignored the suggestions of the GPA holders, it also did not bother to give them a patient hearing in this matter. "The aggrieved GPA's who have suffered injustice and discrimination for years altogether will not accept this humiliation further," he declared, adding that the Front would submit to the Chief Minister, Sheila Dikshit, its objections to the mandatory free hold clause associated with obtaining the membership in a society and would also fight against any move to extract Rs.10,000 as membership fee.

Stating that further objections against rate discrimination in different areas and between GPA occupants and original allottees pertaining to free hold conversion of flats by DDA would be raised, he said a memorandum would also be submitted to the Union Minister of Urban Development and the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi to rationalize the rates.

Simultaneously, he said, the Front would also debate the legality of the decision of Delhi DDA to the convert the multi-storeyed flat properties to freehold bypassing perpetual lease agreement on land with the respective societies.

And in case, the rights of the GPA holders are still ignored, he warned that they would resort to agitation to get their voice heard.

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