What is the problem with security charges?

Few things are not debatable -
1. We need to have security in the colony.
2. Residents should be contributing some money towards the security in the society.

However canceling nominations in elections and debarring people from voting is both unlawful and unmoral -

1. Security charges are collected from both residents and member of the lok sewak society. This is a clear ambiguity, on what basis is society collecting money from non members?
2. You cannot debar people from voting, In india even criminals can vote. Voting is a fundamental and constitutional right.
3. Security charges collection and associated rules do not form part of the society bylaws i.e. Registrar of societies is not informed about this.
4. When 71 members of 126 members are not paying the same, something is definitely wrong.

The latest news roaming around is that we want the security as there is money to be made there . however -
1. This in a way confirms that existing people are making money from it. As there is also reluctance in sharing the details the same is again confirmed.
2. Incase (a v remote possibility) that we get to be incharge of security, there will be very transparent accounting and services. All shall be shared and nothing hidden. How can someone make money when there is complete transparency?

List of members

Presently no proper list of members is maintained. There is only a list that contains just the names, and nothing else. We should be working to create a list where we have names, addresses and emailid of all residents/members.

The reason for not maintaining the list is lack of time with the present committee members. I have agreed to take on the same, provided i am assigned some worker who can go and make some rounds.

However again i am not sure if there would be any forward movement on this...I am trying to be hopeful and positive after today's meeting with some of the members of the committee.

Security arrangement in our colony

We all know security in our colony is badly managed and that is the reason why many of the residents do not pay the charges. The committee members on 14th march had said, that they do not want suggestions and they are more than happy to hand over security to anybody willing to come forward and work for the same.

I accepted the same and gave a letter to society to call up a follow up meeting where i can share the security proposal which i have made with a wider forum. I want to finalise a proposal based on the concerns of all residents and provide security which satisfies concerns of most people. However Mr president replied on my letter that committee will decide on the meeting date which i am sure will be NEVER.

This exposes the fact that no matter that they might claim that people are not coming forward to work for society, they do not want to have anybody come ahead and work for society because of vested interests.

The farce of a resignation

Now that registrar has called in for a meeting, and the personal attack on my father been condemned across, our secretary is playing the new drama of resignation. So now, He has apparently submitted the resignation, but the same will obviously be not accepted by our Honorary president. Therefore, there is no option left, except Mr. Khanna to continue working as the secretary. As it seems that there is nobody in the entire colony that can take his place.

Have we not seen this drama happening so many times with our politicians? It's amusing to note that colony residents are assumed to be fools to believe such thing. Its also a shame that society elected members are playing such a drama..

Meeting on security on 14th March

The meeting called by the society today on the issue of the security was a big failure as almost nobody came. Most of the people who came were the executive council themselves. The people are afraid to speak or have given up any hope.

The general word that came out was whether accept whatever we are providing you, or give us a proposal which we MAY CONSIDER. However we have now decided to give a proposal and therefore take the security management from our great executive council.

We have also decided to call another meeting next week where we try and get more views to make the final proposal and submit the same to the society.

The cost of security

The society claims it is short of funds and therefore needs money from the residents to provide security. It is interesting to note the following -

1. Society pays an income tax of 2lacs on a savings of 7 lacs. Why that money is not used for providing security?
2. On the pretext of non payment of security charges, 71 out of 121 members of the society were debarred from voting.
   
3. Car stereos have been stolen at random many times from the colony, and no action was taken.
4. On the pretext of security, money is extorted from builders for allowing the trucks enter the colony at night time. When we made our house few years back, we were extremely harassed and our trucks were not allowed. However now we all know that trucks come in at all times, why?
   

Secretary threatens people in thier homes

Mr. Giriraj Khanna, Secretary of Geetanjali Residents Lok Sewak Society came to my house on 12 March and threatened my father Mr. V.S. Gupta. He rang the bell and had forcibly entered the house by the time my father had reached the door. He was drunk, smoking and agitated. He would have hit my father; luckily I was in the home today and intervened before anything untoward could happen. This has happened for the second time now. This instance may be confirmed from the adjoining neighbors’ and the Guards nearby.

Mr. Khanna is disturbed from the fact that my father is trying to highlight the mismanagement of the society. My father is generally alone in the house. I fear for his safety and therefore have now also filed a police complaint to prevent such action in future. There have already been 2 instances now.

My Father is retired class 1 government engineer aged 65 Yrs+. Worst part is other colony residents also fear for their safety and do not raise their voice. This inaction has led to increased confidence of Mr. Khanna. However we will not bow down and let a place where we live and have spent so many years meet this fate.


It is now important that young people come ahead and take the welfare of the colony and its resident in their hands and give back something to society.