Saket Parisar Advanced Locality Management [ALM]

What is an Energy Audit? An energy audit is the first step to determine how much energy your home or business consumes and evaluate the steps to make the property more energy efficient. An energy audit provides you with the framework needed to establish or improve energy management such as increasing Energy Conservation, replacing existing gadgets by Energy Efficient gadgets, and using Renewable Energy to the extent possible.  It also provides a baseline for saving money and energy over time when corrected. Step 1: Desktop Analysis The energy auditor will first need to collect historical energy data, usually at least 24 months worth of energy bills. Often this can be obtained from your strata manager or requested from your energy retailer. With this information a desktop analysis will be conducted to: Investigate your sites pattern of energy use; this can be very useful to identify control issues and energy wastage. Check your regulated tariffs to make sure

April 30, 2015. The Hon. DCP (Traffic), Thane City, Thane. Respected Madam , Sub : Heavy Traffic Jams at Kalwa Bridge inconveniencing residents. Three months ago we  had written to you about the huge traffic snarls at Kalwa Bridge, daily in the morning and evening. The situation still continues unabated and residents from Saket and also of Rabodi are suffering every day. As pointed to you earlier, the problem has been compounded since opening of the Bhiwandi bypass arm of the Majiwade flyover. Since then all Tourist vehicles, trucks and Company buses climb down the arm and coming straight take a left turn on the Rustomjee built illegal service road, then take a right turn to come on Saket Road and head to Vashi from Kalwa Bridge. While doing so they use the entire width of the road - even the extreme right lane and thus causing a jam which stretches up to a kilometre. The lines of trucks parked on either side of the road add to the bad traffic condition. To sort

April 30, 2015. The DCP (Traffic), Thane City, Thane. Madam, Sub: Request to stop movement of Heavy vehicles thru Saket Complex premises. This is a fervent appeal on behalf of residents of Saket Complex. Our submission is as under: 1) Saket Complex is a small township of 24 buildings and 3 Towers and is situated adjoining the Nasik Highway /Bhiwandi bypass. 2) There are 2 approach roads to the complex - one from Kalwa bridge to Balkum Road, which is a very busy road and other is a small service road from the Mahalaxmi Temple in the complex leading to the Highway (going to Mumbai side). 3) This service road is essentially meant for small vehicles only. 4) There is a Nana Nani Park and a Children's Park on one side and complex buildings on the other side of this service road. Both parks are used by Senior Citizens and Children of the complex daily. 5) However, since the past week the police stationed near the Mahalaxmi Temple have been diverting all traffic

Special General Body Meetings: When a special general body meeting should be called . 98. A special general body meeting of the Society may be called at any time at the instance of the Chairman or by the decision of the majority of the Committee and shall be called within one month of the date of the receipt or requisition, in writing signed by at least 1/5th of the members of the Society or from the Registering Authority or from the Housing Federation, to which the Society is affiliated. The meeting so convened shall not transact any business, other than that mentioned in the notice of the meeting fixing date, time and place for a special general body meeting requisitioned. 99. The requisition for the special general body meeting of the Society, under the bye-law No. 97 shall be placed within 7 days of its receipt, before the meeting of the Committee, by the Secretary of the Society, for fixing the date, time and place for the special general body meeting of the Society. 100

WHY CHS ACTIVISM IS THE NEED OF THE HOUR  The CHS is the most basic unit of local self-governance. Unfortunately, few people have a proper understanding of CHS rules, laws, procedures and administrative/judicial mechanisms that provide our constitutional safeguards. The result is arbitrariness and misuse of power by managing committee members. Just like RTI activists, there is a need for “CHS activists” – people who acquire knowledge and experience of such matters, and help others by training and guiding them.  CHS activists also improve and fine-tune the existing mechanisms to make them more useable by the general public. A CHS activist in our state should have working knowledge of Maharashtra Cooperative Societies Act (MCS Act), MCS Rules, Model Bye-laws, guidelines and circulars issued by the office of Registrar of Cooperatives etc, Consumer Protection Act, and Right to Information Act (RTI Act). He should know how to conduct the affairs of a cooperative society in a l

CHS: The issue of leaking bathrooms In every one out of two housing societies in Mumbai there is a constant quarrel on who attends water leakage in the ceiling of a bathroom. In every such society residence of one flat out of every four flats faces this problem with no solution. Now this issue got recognition as a deficiency in service by housing society’s managements and is no longer allowed to persist. This was a fit case to insert a new Bye Law in the Model Bye Laws from the Commissioner and Registrar of Cooperative Societies based in Pune, Maharashtra. Recognising housing societies as service providers, a consumer forum has ordered one such housing society in Chembur to cough up an almost Rs 1 lakh in compensation to a member for the damage caused to his flat by renovation in the flat above. The forum held the society guilty of deficiency in service because neither did it take any action against the flat owner who caused the damage nor did it make any attempt to recov

SAKET SAARVAJANIK GANESHOTSAV Saket Complex is a cluster of 24 buildings situated in the heart of Thane. Spread over an area of 10 acres, the complex has a scenic view with over 1000 trees planted in the area. The residents of the complex have been celebrating SAKET SAARVAJANIK GANESHOTSAV in their premises for the past 15 years. The Utsav is celebrated with pomp and vigour for 5 days and has a footfall of over 12,000 people every year. Children and adults of the complex organize cultural programs to entertain the crowds. This year, the residents have planned publication of a Saket Directory – a dossier that shall contain names, telephone numbers and profession of the 700 members of the complex. The information shall be a excellent data bank for the advertisers. We request you to support the Ganeshotsav by either releasing an advertisement in the Directory or by sponsoring one day’s program or putting up an arch at the venue. The tariffs are as under: 1)     Sponsorin

MINUTES OF THE OPEN FORUM MEETING ON TRANSPORT HELD ON AUGUST 23, 2015. 1.    The meeting which was primarily held to review the new transport arrangements post SGM and have suggestions from actual users of the system, was well attended by 65 members. A background paper was distributed to all giving all details of the transport service. 2.    At the outset, the Chairman informed the members of the logistics, 740 people from Saket and 100 from outside Saket and Towers had availed of the service, against the estimated 1000 people we expected. 3.    Mr. Jaywant, Sunil Shinde, AshimDasgupta, Mrs. SandhyaKarnik, VijiIyer, Manish Barua, AhesaanVohra, HemantHajare, Samir Adhikari, ChanchalChatterjee, Jitendra Bade, Mr. Torgalmath -  all participated in the discussions. They pointed out lacunae in the time table, need to reintroduce the Sumo service, their opinion on the City Bus, how to increase members etc. 4.    A major decision was taken to review the transport scene every quar