Wednesday, September 9, 2009
What are the ways ahead?
The approval of local body for our layout is still pending. Reason - no roads laid or other amenities as stipulated by the CMDA provided by the society in the layout. The society is expected to provide all the amenities and also pay development charge to the local body. But the Society asks us to pay them Rs.20/- per sqft which,they say, they will pay to the local body. This amount (more than one crore) would be used to lay the road and provide other amenities.
Who has to pay the development fee? What is happening in other societies and the other layouts sold by this society? The price fixed by the Society includes the cost of development of the bare land into layout, development fee to be paid to the local body, other expenses incurred by the society and their profit. So, the development fee for this layout has already been loaded into the price and collected by the society from the members. When that is the case, where is the need for asking the members to pay it once again?
The contention of the society is that the development fee was not communicated by the local body for a long time and they have now charged at the current market value of the property. But is it a reasonable answer? The society has undertaken to pay the taxes, fees etc. due to the government in respect of the plots of the layout in the sale deed, upto the point of allotment/sale of plots. The development work should have been undertaken by the society well before the plots have been alloted to the members. Therefore, the due arise well before the allotment of plot and registration of the sale deed. In such case, who is liable to pay the development fee?
The reason attributed by the society that they cannot afford paying the development fee now is not fair, just and not acceptable. In any transaction, one may make profit and at times may also incur loss. One cannot go back on the agreement just because they need to pay up some due and with that may incur some loss on the transaction.
The society has sold 483 plots of various sizes in the layout. The total area of the plots would be approximately 425 x 2400 =1020000. Presuming that they would have got Rs.25 per sqft on the layout for selling the plots, they would have roughly got Rs.1020000 x 25 = Rs.2,55,00,000/-. When such is the case, they should not be making any fuss about this payment and stall the development of the area. It is also understood that they have earmarked Rs.1.34 crores as Amenity funds for this project.
So, what are the ways ahead?
1. Let us all gather ourselves and meet the SO and give a Memorandum signed by all, with a copy to all concerned - the Registrar of Co-op Society, Secretary, Minister concerned and the CM.
2. Give a time period of 4 weeks to solve the issue and if it is not solved by then, stage a dharna before the Society.
3. Call the press and give a wide coverage of the issue.
4. Parallely, we shall also explore the legal ways by consulting a leading Civil Advocate about the possibility of obtaining legal remedy.
Solicit your suggestions.
Blog team
chennai.metrocity@blogspot.com
Who has to pay the development fee? What is happening in other societies and the other layouts sold by this society? The price fixed by the Society includes the cost of development of the bare land into layout, development fee to be paid to the local body, other expenses incurred by the society and their profit. So, the development fee for this layout has already been loaded into the price and collected by the society from the members. When that is the case, where is the need for asking the members to pay it once again?
The contention of the society is that the development fee was not communicated by the local body for a long time and they have now charged at the current market value of the property. But is it a reasonable answer? The society has undertaken to pay the taxes, fees etc. due to the government in respect of the plots of the layout in the sale deed, upto the point of allotment/sale of plots. The development work should have been undertaken by the society well before the plots have been alloted to the members. Therefore, the due arise well before the allotment of plot and registration of the sale deed. In such case, who is liable to pay the development fee?
The reason attributed by the society that they cannot afford paying the development fee now is not fair, just and not acceptable. In any transaction, one may make profit and at times may also incur loss. One cannot go back on the agreement just because they need to pay up some due and with that may incur some loss on the transaction.
The society has sold 483 plots of various sizes in the layout. The total area of the plots would be approximately 425 x 2400 =1020000. Presuming that they would have got Rs.25 per sqft on the layout for selling the plots, they would have roughly got Rs.1020000 x 25 = Rs.2,55,00,000/-. When such is the case, they should not be making any fuss about this payment and stall the development of the area. It is also understood that they have earmarked Rs.1.34 crores as Amenity funds for this project.
So, what are the ways ahead?
1. Let us all gather ourselves and meet the SO and give a Memorandum signed by all, with a copy to all concerned - the Registrar of Co-op Society, Secretary, Minister concerned and the CM.
2. Give a time period of 4 weeks to solve the issue and if it is not solved by then, stage a dharna before the Society.
3. Call the press and give a wide coverage of the issue.
4. Parallely, we shall also explore the legal ways by consulting a leading Civil Advocate about the possibility of obtaining legal remedy.
Solicit your suggestions.
Blog team
chennai.metrocity@blogspot.com
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Let us enrol all the members into Association !
Dear Members,
It appears the Association will be convening the AGM in October, 2009. It is quite understandable that people from various walks of life are our members and convening a meeting in short notice is a difficult proposition. However, we have to act fast well before the start of monsoon to clear the waste out of our layout and to consider and if approved, to survey and lay the boundary stones for the plots and plant avenue trees.
We shall all participate in the meeting without fail, when it is convened. Let us also try to enrol all those who have not joined the Association. It seems not even 25% of the members have joined the Association yet. We need more members to join us. Only then our voice would be louder and will be heard by the people concerned. More members will also help in lesser contribution by each one of us.
Let us make a drive for enrolment.
Best wishes,
Blog team
chennai.metrocity@gmail.com
It appears the Association will be convening the AGM in October, 2009. It is quite understandable that people from various walks of life are our members and convening a meeting in short notice is a difficult proposition. However, we have to act fast well before the start of monsoon to clear the waste out of our layout and to consider and if approved, to survey and lay the boundary stones for the plots and plant avenue trees.
We shall all participate in the meeting without fail, when it is convened. Let us also try to enrol all those who have not joined the Association. It seems not even 25% of the members have joined the Association yet. We need more members to join us. Only then our voice would be louder and will be heard by the people concerned. More members will also help in lesser contribution by each one of us.
Let us make a drive for enrolment.
Best wishes,
Blog team
chennai.metrocity@gmail.com
Saturday, September 5, 2009
Precarious state of the Layout
It's almost 9 months since we formed the Association. The association is taking steps through various means to solve the issue of non-approval of the layout by the local body - the Tiruverkadu Municipality. It appears that the various attempts made by the association to negotiate with the Society and the Developer, Mr.Rajan to find a solution to the above problem have not yielded any fruitful result sofar. However, we presume efforts are still being taken on this count. Let's pray for an early settlement.
While this is an issue which has been dragging since the time the plots were allotted to us in 2001/2002, we are now forced to tackle another major problem in the form of spoiling the entire layout. It is seen that industrial plastic waste has been dumped in various places of the layout by some unscrupulous elements during the last few months. When this was informed to a couple of office bearers of the Association, it seems from their reaction that they were also aware of it. It's the most unfortunate thing to happen to us and unless we take some immediate steps to set right the issue, our area may also look like a Perungudi or Kodungaiyur dumping yard. This may look a little far fetched as of now. But unless we act immediately, we never know, we may have a waste dumpyard in our layout.
So, what can be done? We have to remove the waste immediately and put a board warning such elements of severe action. This needs immediate attention because in a few weeks, the monsoon will begin in full earnest and it will spread the waste from few places to everywhere of the layout. It would not only spoil the atmosphere there but also affect the market value of our land. Let us all contribute, for our welfare, to the association for taking up this task.
As they say "A stitch in time saves nine", an effective action by us immediately would do a lot of good to us. It would not only save our plots from getting spoiled in the monsoon but would also discourage more such dumping.
For those of you who are away from city, we have taken some photographs of the Layout as on 22nd August 2009 and have posted them here.
We hope atleast those of you who see this blog would wake up and approach the association to take effective steps immediately.
Shall come up with more updates shortly.
Wishing you all the best
Blog team
Email: chennai.metrocity@gmail.com
Link to Photos : http://picasaweb.google.com/chennai.metrocity/MetroCityAsOn23082009#
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