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GPA holders for dissolving cooperative housing societies

Staff Reporter

‘GPA holders being deprived of equal rights’
‘The entry fee charged from buyers is illegal’

NEW DELHI: Unable to enjoy all the rights that are vested with original allottees, general power of attorney holders — who have bought residential units in cooperative house-building societies and are living there — have demanded that such societies be wound up.

Convener of GPA Holders’ Association V.N. Bali said on Sunday that while these societies were formed over 30 years ago to take land from the Delhi Development Authority and to distribute it among the members, now when over 90 per cent of the original allottees have sold their plots, a minuscule percentage of them continue to lord over the GPA holders.

“Ideally, after the development of the plots, all these societies should have been handed over to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, but that has not happened and GPA holders are being deprived of equal rights.”

Mr. Bali said the GPA holders would once again approach the Lieutenant- Governor, the Registrar of Cooperative Societies and the DDA to remove the anomaly by dissolving these societies which have lost their relevance.

“Section 94 of DCS Act was introduced by the Delhi government in 2003 to wind up those cooperative societies which have handed over their essential services to the MCD, but the law has not been implemented under the influence of corrupt managements of these societies,” Mr. Bali said.

“More than 15 lakh residents, constituting more than 90 per cent of people living in cooperative societies, are GPA holders. These residents have no voting rights or permission to run the society on a day-to-day basis,” he said.

Editor of Cooperative Era S.K. Chibber said another issue of concern was that “most of the residents are harassed by the original allottees and treated like second class citizens. These managements charge Rs.50,000 to Rs.1 lakh entry fee from buyers of houses, plots and flats. This money is unaccounted for, illegal and is enjoyed by government officials and corrupt managements.”

Another GPA Holders Association member Varinder Arora of Kiran Vihar said: “The neighbouring States of Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Haryana follow a people-friendly policy for the buyers or GPA holders of the cooperative society houses, plots and flats. A cooperative society is dissolved after allotment of the plot or house even globally.”

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