Now again a protest against a builder in Mohali

23rd September 2022 at 3:45 PM

Residents of Preet City Housing warned of big action

Warning to surround local MLA's houses in front of media

Builder accused of not providing basic facilities

If this condition is near the capital then what will happen to the rest of Punjab

Officials of Preet City Housing Society addressing the press conference 

Mohali: 23 September 2022: (Gurjit Billa//Karthika Singh//Input-Punjab Screen Desk):

On the one hand, big politicians and rich people in the country were engaged in building farm houses of many acres at many places, then at that time itself there was a danger that there might be a serious crisis of living land for the general public. After all, when this crisis started coming to the fore in a serious form, builders came out like angels.

Those who used to show flats of many floors in TV serials and films, their presence started appearing in Punjab also. Colonies like big societies, hi-fi security system at the gate, sparkling lights, swimming pool inside the society, club, community hall and many more outdoor facilities too. Totally dazzling lights.

For those who had forgotten to sleep peacefully in the bullets going on in the streets during the era of terrorism, for them all this was nothing less than a supernatural atmosphere. This is where the boom in this business started. Big people and big officers came and entered it. Big advertisements in newspapers and big claims in advertisements. These advertisements and claims quickly attracted people. People put their deposits in making this dream come true. Every rupee added to hard earned money was invested. When the investments were lacking, they completed this amount by selling jewelry. Even then, if there were any lack in paying the whole amount, then they have to take the loan.

This thought was not accidental, in fact it is every person's dream to build a house by adding every rupee of his hard earned money. A similar case was put forth by the residents of Preet City Housing Society Sector 86, Mohali by buying a flat in the same society, due to lack of facilities, this decision has become a headache for them. Even after having several meetings with all the political level officials and ministers of political parties, there is no electricity and water in the area. These views were expressed by Preet City Housing Society, Sector 86, Mohali President Daljit Singh and General Secretary Sanjay Gupta during a press conference at Mohali Press Club today.

Daljit Singh said that the government has established Preet City Housing Society, Sector-86, S.A.S. Nagar, Mohali. It was approved for the mega project in the year 2005. Only after this approval, almost all the residents have registered themselves after purchasing residential/commercial flats and the due payment has been made as per the demand of the developer. In the year 2012, in addition to the value of plots at the rate of Rs 3333/- per square yard for residential flats and Rs 7232 per square yard for commercial plots, an amount of crores of rupees was deposited on the demand of the developer. Sanjay Gupta told that he has deposited EDC charges of Rs 7200 hundred per yard for commercial plot and Rs 60-70 crore for residential plot. A total of 1200 plots have been made in the society, in which more than 250 houses are not being given electricity connection. At this stage expensive electricity had been brought up through candles or generators. He said that the officials of the electricity department and the developer have mutual understanding. The developer has demanded a NOC of 30-50 thousand rupees for giving electricity connection. Society member Rajwinder Kaur emotionally said that she is living in complete darkness and is forced to live a life like hell even after depositing lakhs of rupees. GMADA is sending her a notice to vacate the plot. Deputy President Satnam Singh said that every person dreams of building a house by adding every rupee of his hard earned money. This case was brought up by the residents here as they are regretting their decision of buying a flat in this society, which unfortunately had become a headache for them.

All the residents of the society are forced to live a life like hell in the state of despair and it has become difficult for them to live in this society due to lack of basic facilities. They announced that they are fed up with the officials and ministers. If their demands weren't met, they might have to protest in front of the houses of the local MLAs. Inderpal Singh, Malkit Singh, Lakhwinder Singh, Harjit Singh and Kanwar Singh Gill were present on the occasion. Developer Charan Singh Saini said that 70 per cent of the plot owners are defaulters and all of the facilities cannot be provided until full payment has been made. He further added that many of them haven't passed their maps from GMADA. Houses have been built without approval, due to which water and electricity connections are not available till date.

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Skylark Resident Disclose everything before media

 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.

Parents Associations against High Charges by Schools united

Fri, May 5, 2017 at 6:09 PM

Started media info campaign from a nationwide platform 

From New Delhi Press Club:

We had created a nationwide platform for all the activists working against the commercialization of the education back in February 2017. But in many states, the parents' associations have been actively working for the several years on these issues. We have studied all the aspects of this gigantic problem. Some have staged peaceful protests, some have filed cases before the courts and while pursuing our aim we have been getting tremendous support from the media also. Accordingly, we have decided to keep informing the media about the details of all such developments periodically i.e. various aspects of this gigantic problem, solutions we have in our mind and our actual field works either by way of launching protests and filing cases before courts.

Discussions at today’s press conference:

 A) Main aspects of the problems-

1) Anubha Sahai from IWPA said that there is no uniform law for education all over the nation. Some states like Maharashtra have comparatively effective law whereas states like Madhya Pradesh and Union Territory Chandigarh have no law to curb commercialization of education at all.

2)  Gurpreet Kaur from Chandigarh Parents Association said that though there are comparatively effective laws present in few states no implementation of such laws has been followed e.g. law to put behind the bar for 3 years for an offender collecting capitation fee exists since as back as 1988 in Maharashtra but it has not been implemented despite the fact that education department itself has mentioned in its hundreds of reports that many schools have collected illegal fees. Similarly, in the state of Punjab, the government and the administration have totally failed to implement refund orders from the schools which were decided by the Fee Regulatory Committee appointed by the Punjab & Haryana High Court. These refund orders are in corers of rupees. Even the schools continue to charge exorbitant amount in the form of annual charges, readmission charges, development fund, activity charge, computer charges, smart class charges and other charges.

3) Sunil Verma of Dwarka Parents Association said that most brutal method used by the schools is removing the child from the school for nonpayment of fees. All the incidents we have seen in past few months are those where schools have removed children for want of illegal payments only. Many schools resort to mental punishment to the students who are debarred from attending classes and are made to sit in the library whole day long.

4) Manoj Sharma of Haryana Abhibhavak Ekta Manch said that the schools force the children to purchase books & uniforms from some specified shops who sell these at much higher rates. The schools change the books frequently so that the previous books cannot be reused and schools & the shopkeepers make the huge profit.

5) Gautam Vohra from Faridabad Parents Association said that schools are not following mandatory requirements under RTE act e.g. submitting their audit reports every year under Form II which they fear would expose their actual profiteering.

B) Our strategy so far planned and implemented-

1) Nitin Goyal, president of Chandigarh Parents Association informed that we have created India Wide Parents Association, a nationwide platform to unite all the activists working against the commercialization of the education. We do provide legal and other assistance to any activists or parents approaching us from all over the nation. Recently we had staged protests at CBSE and met NCPCR representative who immediately took cognizance of our complaint and as soon as their orders of inquiries were passed schools immediately restored the admission of the expelled children. Some of our activists have worked at local levels also and have successfully restored the expelled students whereas incidents where errant schools have refused to restore the expelled students we are initiating legal proceedings as well as criminal and civil actions not only against the school authorities but against public authorities too who are deliberately neglecting to perform their statutorily binding duties.

2) Narender Munjal from Faridabad Parents Association said that we have also prepared legal drafts and same shall be filed before various courts and commissions all over the nation against illegal fee collections by the school authorities and also against the negligent public authorities. We will also pray to prosecute such negligent public authorities.

Swaroop Singh from Ludhiana all School Parents Association informed that “Today we met the members of NCPCR to discuss on pending issues since many months related to child harassment and corporal punishment and request them to resolve the pending disputes immediately. SCPCR across India has failed to perform their duties.”

Manjit Singh from Ludhiana said that we demand the central and state governments to review the minority status granted to these institutions after the enactment of RTE Act. To conduct a thorough enquiry to verify whether they are imparting education to minority children or not and to verify the records as to how many children from minority background are studying in these institutions and to cancel the minority status of these schools which are taking undue advantage of this status granted to these institutions and also take criminal action against these institutions which are targeting children They are misusing the  minority status to escape from their obligations under RTE and other laws. All provisions of RTE must be applicable to minority institutions.

Rajiv Sharma from Ludhiana In the past three months since the formation of IWPA we have been successful with few practical difficulties and are able to contribute for the society. We plan to spread this movement further and request your popular newspaper and news channel to publish/broadcast the same.