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 Wednesday 20th July 2022 at 1:51 PM 

'We are forced to live hellish life': said Residents

* Accused of not providing basic facilities to the builder

* Stairs have to be climbed up to the 5th floor due to the lack of lift.

* Elderly and handicapped have experience like torture

Mohali: 20 July 2022: (Punjab Screen Bureau)::

It's the dream of every person to build a house by adding every rupee of his lifetime earnings. One such dream was fulfilled by the residents of Skylark Housing Apartments, Sector-115, Kharad, District Mohali, by buying a flat in this society; but their decision proved to be a hellish for them, as due to lack of basic amenities, it was difficult to live.

Addressing a press conference at Mohali Press Club here today, Smt. Prabhjot Kaur and Col Bachitar Singh, residents of the society, said that the Skylark Housing Apartment project at Laundran-Kharad Road was started by builder Gurmukh Singh in 2008-09 and was completed in December 2011. The said residents alleged that till date the said builder has not completed this housing project as per the terms and conditions and has not been able to provide basic facilities to the residents of the society as per its promise. He said that we have had many meetings with builder since last 11 years regarding our problems and he always assured to complete the above project with all facilities soon, but he kept avoiding providing these facilities.

He further said that there is a provision to install 7 lifts in the society, but only 3 lifts are running and due to lack of power backup, most remain closed or malfunctioning, causing discomfort to elderly and disabled people to reach upto their flats on 4th-5th floor. They have to face many difficulties. He expressed doubts that the builder has neither taken approval from RERA for this project nor obtained completion and occupation certificate from the concerned authorities. He said that even fire extinguishers were not installed during any untoward incident in the society. Along with this, the society has got potholes on the roads and now during the rainy days water stagnates on the roads and the general cleanliness in the premises is poor.

In the end, he said that in such a situation the life of the people of the society has become difficult and builder Gurmukh Singh is not ready to listen to us even a single word. He has requested the Bhagwant Mann government of Punjab to take necessary strict action against the said builder and bring us justice at the earliest so that we can get relief from living such a hellish life.

Apart from Prabhjot Kaur and Col Bachitar Singh, Manish Nanda, Manjit Sandhu, Vishal Thapar, Group Captain Amarjit Singh Dhillon, Paramjit Singh Sandhu, disabled residents Jatinder Sharma and Kamal Chahal were present on the occasion.

When the society wanted to talk to the builder Gurmukh Singh on two different mobile phones about the allegations leveled by the residents, he did not think it necessary to pick up his mobile phone.

CPI Press Note on GLADA

Where was GLADA when these colonies were  coming up?

Ludhiana(Rector Kathuria and SK Gogna)Reacting sharply to GLADA’s declaring 12oo colonies as unauthorized, the Communist Party of India Distt. Ludhiana questioned where was GLADA when these colonies were  coming up? Now when the common people have purchased land and built houses out of their hard earned money, the GLADA has declared them unauthorized. The private colonies are coming up because the government has no housing policy for the common people. In a statement issued here today Com Kartar Singh Bowani – Distt. Secretary, Dr.Arun Mitra & Com D P Maur – Asstt. Secretaries and Com Ramesh Rattan – City Secretary of the party said that earlier the government and the administration connived with the colonizers and let these colonies come up, but  now when common people have built up their houses the GLADA is declaring them unauthorized and without providing any alternative asking the people not to buy land in these colonies. This is totally wrong and injustice to the common people. What is needed now is that the required facilities as per GLADA’s rules should be ensured to the residents of these without any burden on the people living there. In the future GLADA should construct houses for the needy people which should be provided by lottery system. The system of auctioning should be discontinued as it facilitates only the rich people to buy land there.  
Dr Arun Mitra                                                           Date: 23.02.2013
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