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What is the Blue Whale ?

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What is the Blue Whale ? The Blue Whale challenge ends in suicide. You are forced to kill yourself, under the threat that if you don’t, the game’s developers will kill your family. You probably already know that the Blue Whale game presents a 50-ish-day series of challenges. These start out simple, like waking up at a certain time during the night and things like that. But later they start to get more complicated and disturbing. In a few of the challenges you are forced to cut yourself—carving a specific number and, later, a blue whale image into your skin using a knife. The thing is, you can’t back out. This game is an app that, once downloaded, hacks your phone and steals tons of sensitive information. If you ever try to quit the game, it will tell you that you’re not allowed to stop or your family will be killed or other terrible things. During later challenges, you’ll be forced to have a conversation with a Blue Whale developer. Later you’ll be told to stand precar...

Parivartan - The Dream is over and dead..

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Remember Mikhail Gorbachev ? The last President of the Soviet Union? The man who opened up the Soviet Union to the world? The man who introduced 'Perestroika' meaning change in the Soviet Union? And that 'Perestroika' - change consumed Mikhail Gorbachev. When I look back at the events in Saket over the past 2 years, I feel that I myself are akin to Gorbachev - I introduced the concept of Parivartan - change in Saket and the same has consumed me. Last year, on May 29, 2016, I had carried a post called Saket Parivartan - the Dream gone sour. This is a sequel to that post : Parivartan - the dream is over. Yes, the Parivartan dream is over. The past two years have been a story of back stabbing, people ganging up against one person, groupism gaining over talent and schemers running the roost in Saket - people with little or no knowledge of running society affairs are in positions of power - not because of people wanting them , but by staging palace coup. For the...

PARKING SPACE & CHARGES

Dear Saketians, For your information. ​ ​​ PARKING SPACE & CHARGES PARKING SPACE & CHARGES (Open, Stilt or Whatever) 1. WHO OWNS THE CHS PARKING SPACE ?  a) The CHS "Solely" owns the common spaces (Stilt, Open or whatever)  b) The members DO NOT own the common spaces (Stilt, Open or whatever)  c) Allotment of Parking space is a "Administrative function" and "ONLY & ONLY" the MC has jurisdiction & is empowered to allot the parking space allotment to its own Registered members  d) The GB is not empowered to decide or allot parking spaces. e) Registered members include family members and associate members  f) Parking is NOT a RIght of the member and at the most can be an extended humanitarian facility to the CHS members.  g) Tenant's are Nominal Members AND HAVE NO RIGHTS OF A REGULAR MEMBER, which includes having NO RIGHTS of parking in the CHS premises. However, at the dis...

Flat no. A 7/202 विरुध्द TMC कारवाई

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July 16, 2017 The Secretary, Saket CHSL, Thane  महोदय, आपल्या बिल्डिंग नं. A7/202 मध्ये बेकायदा तोडफोड व नूतनीकरण सुरु आहे . त्या संबंधी सोसायटी पदाधिकारी यांचे कडे दोन वेळा लिखित तक्रार करुन सुध्दा काही प्रतिसाद न मिळाल्या मुळे महापालिके कडे तक्रार करावी लागली. यासंबंधात महापालिकेने कारवाईचे आदेश दिले आहेत त्या संबंधी चे हे पत्र आपल्या माहिती साठी देत आहे . आपला, दयानंद नेने  CC  : मा. अतिरिक्त आयुक्त सो - २ - धन्यवाद साहेब. बेकायदा तोडफोड करुन इमारतीची वाट लावून तिचा धोकादायक होण्याच्या वाटेवर नेणार्यांविरुध्द कठोर कारवाई करावी ही विनंती ..

The decision to lock gates of society buildings and the problems created for members.

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1] Appeal to members: dated July 20, 2017 Dear All, 1] Please do not fill the survey form as the survey is not decided by the committee but 4-5 people. 2] The survey is lop sided in favor of those conducting it. 3] They are trying to trap you with this survey. 4] Their intention is to close the gates. 5] If you choose Option A - they will say you have chosen not to have security. 6] If you choose Option B - they will say that you have agreed for increase in maintenance [only for your building] - intention is that you should say NO. 7] If you choose Option C or D - they are trying to divide people from different buildings. 8]if you choose Option E - this was tried in the past but did not succeed. 9] How can you choose this Option E - without knowing full details about it. All this should be discussed in a SGM not like this. Think and Act. Regards,   Dayanand J. Nene 2] July 18, 2017 The Secretary, Saket CHSL, Saket...

Why is Maharashtra Housing Societies covered under GST?

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Why is Maharashtra Housing Societies covered under GST? GST is applicable to the dealer-person who is rendering service or supplying goods in the regular course of business activity. ‘Person’ has been defined under 2(84) as follows: “person” includes— (a) an individual; (b) a Hindu Undivided Family; (c) a company; (d) a firm; (e) a Limited Liability Partnership; (f) an association of persons or a body of individuals, whether incorporated or not, in India or outside India; (g) any corporation established by or under any Central Act, State Act or Provincial Act or a Government company as defined in clause (45) of section 2 of the Companies Act, 2013; (h) any corporate incorporated by or under the laws of a country outside India; (i) a co-operative society registered under any law relating to co-operative societies; j) a local authority; (k) Central Government or a State Government; (l) society as defined under the Societies Registration Act, 1860; (m) trust; and (n) eve...

Letter to Municipal Commissioner regarding Granting of OC to buildings above 15 years of age.

ALERT CITIZENS FORUM OF INDIA A7/303, SAKET CHSL, SAKET MARG, THANE (W) 400601 July 5, 2017 The Hon. Municipal Commissioner, Thane Municipal Corporation, Thane. Respected Sir, The Maharashtra Assembly on April 1, 2017 passed a bill amending the Maharashtra Regional and Town Planning Act, 1966 to regularize illegal constructions built before December 31, 2015 on the payment of penalty.  As per the amendment, such structures will be declared as compounded structures after payment of compounding charges, infrastructure charges and premium by the owner and occupier. The amendment also did away with the previous sanction for prosecution in cases where unauthorized development has been carried out or is being carried out on the plot having an area of more than 1,000 square metres.  The government decided to amend the Act to enable regularizing unauthorized deve lopments carried out on or before December 31, 2015 a...