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NGOs' housing: light at end of the tunnel

Staff Reporter

Members of APNGOs' mutually-aided co-operative society would now get plots in Survey Nos. 36 and 37 of Gopannapally

HYDERABAD: T wo-decade-old wait of Government employees working in twin cities for allotment of house sites is over, thanks to the judgement by the Andhra Pradesh Cooperative Tribunal.

The members of AP Non-Gazetted Officers' (Gachibowli) Mutually-Aided Co-operative Society Ltd., would now get plots soon in Survey Nos. 36 and 37 of Gopannapally.

Giving the background of the case, APNGOs Housing Society president N. Chandra Sekhar Reddy and secretary P. Jagan Mohan Reddy here in a media conference on Thursday said that the Government had allocated 427 acres of land to its employees way back in 1991 in the name of four groups of employees - APNGOs, Telangana NGOs, Secretariat employees and High Court employees.

Four societies

But following some disputes in 2003, four separate housing societies for the above groups of employees were formed following GO 416 and an apex society with representatives from all the four societies. In 2004, the apex body decided the allotment of land to each society and Andhra Pradesh NGOs Mutually Aided Co-operative Housing Society Ltd., Hyderabad got 193.39 acres.

The APNGOs housing society filed two writ petitions in 2006 when a rival group that formed a parallel society subsequently demanded allocation of land from the apex society. The Tribunal in a 74-page judgement disposed of both the writs in favour of APNGOs society on April 3 thus paving the way for the release of first phase plots to its members.

Arbitrary

The Tribunal said the apex society had no authority to allot any land to the parallel Amanaganti Society other than the four original societies and termed the admission of that society as a member by the apex society was illegal and arbitrary.

The APNGOs Housing Society has 2,300 registered members and another 4,000 applications were under process against the total strength of over 10,000 employees. The effort was to give house sites to all the eligible members based on seniority of service. A decision would be taken in the general body meeting to decide about the extent of land to each member. The members of parallel society that ceased to exist now could join the APNGOs, they said.

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