PUNE: A brand new 10-member committee was appointed by the state authorities final week to review amendments to the Maharashtra Apartment Ownership Act, 1970.

In October final yr, a 15-member panel had submitted suggestions on the amendments. Nonetheless, simply after eight months, the state authorities has introduced one other committee. The transfer has raised eyebrows of activists within the housing sector. The sooner committee, constituted below the state cooperative division, had submitted a complete report detailing recommendations for amending the act. Nonetheless, the state authorities has remained silent on suggestions, neither implementing them nor offering any suggestions, activists mentioned. The state has 1 lakh buildings below the House Act, together with 15,000 in Pune district.

On June 7, the state housing division, by way of a GR, introduced the formation of a recent committee below the Commissioner for Cooperation and Registrar of Cooperative Societies together with members of the property registration division, dwelling division, settlement commissioner’s division, Pune collector and officers of the regulation division. This new panel is tasked with finding out the act and popping out with the amendments inside three months after the formation of the committee, a choice that has left many questioning the federal government’s intent. Advocate Shreeprasad Parab, skilled director, State Housing Federation mentioned that the committee appointed by the state authorities has already made amendments to the Maharashtra House Possession Act, Guidelines and Bye Legal guidelines to State Cooperative Division so the structure of a brand new committee with none consultants comparable to Pune Federation, a father or mother physique of residences in Pune or The Maharashtra State Housing Federation is a matter of concern. Many residence associations are actually passing resolutions to dissolve the affiliation and kind cooperative housing societies to ease the redevelopment course of. He mentioned that the state ought to severely deal with the considerations of the residence associations that are in majority in cities comparable to Pune, Thane, Navi Mumbai, Mumbai, Nashik, Nagpur, Sambhajinagar and many others and the amendments ought to resolve the current points comparable to redevelopment course of, he added. “It’s perplexing that as an alternative of appearing on the earlier committee’s report, the federal government has chosen to start out from scratch,” mentioned a housing activist. “This not solely a waste of time but in addition of the efforts of consultants who spent months drafting these suggestions.”Commissioner for Cooperation Deepak Taware mentioned that he would submit the report in session with the members. The Maharashtra House Possession Act, 1970, governs the possession, administration, and switch of residences within the state.

Maharashtra State Housing Federation chairperson Suhas Patwardhan mentioned, “We hope the federal government will make the amendments as proposed by the sooner committee as properly,” he mentioned. MK Rao, a member of an residence affiliation, mentioned that whereas the recommendations for amending the act was to make method for extra redevelopment proposals, eviction of these obstructing redevelopment gained’t be straightforward. “Folks could go to court docket and lengthen the matter additional,” he mentioned.