NEW DELHI: Coming together after years of being discriminated against, various apartment owners' associations and residents' welfare associations of cooperative group housing society (CGHS) complexes in the Capital have appealed to owners of all such 5,000 complexes in Delhi to come forward and form their respective Apartment Owners' Association to make the management truly democratic.

At a meeting held at Naveentam Apartments in Sector-9 of Rohini this past week, the problems faced by lakhs of general power-of-attorney holders of flats were discussed at length.

Implementation of the Delhi Apartment Ownership Act, 1986, in the housing complexes and the problems being faced by the existing Apartment Owners' Associations in their respective group housing complexes due to the actions of the management committees of CGHS were also discussed threadbare.

Presiding over the meeting, Sanjiv Kumar, president of Delhi Residents' Front, said though the majority of the flats in CGHS complexes had been transferred by their original allottees, the status and rights of the transferees had not been recognised by the Delhi Co-operative Societies Act (DCS Act), 2003, which governs them. ``The DCS Act, 2003, tends to discriminate between residents by giving more powers and status to one section known as original allottees while relegating others as second class citizens which are known as GPAs,'' he charged.

Stating that over 15 lakh transferees had been facing injustice, harassment and humiliation in the hands of corrupt people in the management for more than a decade, he said the DCS Act had failed to address their problems and set them free from the diktats of those who have sold off their properties but still retain the voting rights in CGHS management.

Though the Delhi Government did not take measures to implement the DAO Act, he said "Associations of Apartment Owners are being formed all over the Capital to take over the management -- undemocratically functioning till now -- and administration of the housing complexes from the hands of the group housing societies."

The secretary of the Naveentam Apartments Owners' Association, Naveen Gupta, said numerous problems were being faced by the GPA holders in various societies as there was non-cooperation by the society management, they are denied voting rights, they have no say in society affairs, there is discrimination at the hands of society management and illegal entry fee is charged from them.

A member of the Sai Apartment Owners' Association, G.L. Sahni, conveyed his displeasure at the fact that money of the residents has been lavishly spent and wasted by various CGHS management committees over the years in the absence of proper accounting

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