Here is a recent article in the Accommodation Times on the issue of Associate Membership in Co-operative Societies, their rights and duties and also the conditions under which they may be disqualified.
Click Here for the article written by V A Sherlelkar, Editor, Accommodation Times
Click Here for the interview
Make suppliers responsible for nuclear disasters.
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Who pays for a nuclear disaster? It’s a question we raised three years ago and secured a strong supplier liability clause in the Nuclear Liability Act in our country.[1] Now Japan is raising the same question.
Sadly, it has come two years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster. GE, Toshiba and Hitachi who built and serviced the nuclear reactors in Fukushima have managed to walk awaywithout paying a dime for the nuclear accident.[2] The cost of the Fukushima nuclear disaster is now being paid by the peopleof Japan.[3]
People all over the world are gathering support for a law that holds suppliers responsible for nuclear accidents. You helped put pressure on the Indian Government to implement a strong supplier liability clause in the Nuclear Liability Act. Your support to this worldwide movement for stringent supplier liability will beinvaluable.
Show your support for a strong nuclear liability law. Help Japan hold its suppliers responsible for the Fukushima disaster.
An official government review found that faulty equipment had a major role to play in the Fukushima accident, which was triggered by the tsunami.[4] So GE, Toshiba and Hitachi are indeed responsible for what happened in Fukushima. Yet they have been able to walk away from their responsibility.
This is unfair and unjust. Hundreds of thousands of people in Japan lost their homes, jobs and communities. None of them have received enough compensation to rebuild their lives.
A strong supplier liability provision like that in India, would have made these companies act more responsibly. We have made India the only country with a strong nuclear supplier liability clause that makes nuclear suppliers liable in case of an accident. Let’s help the people of Japan get justice too.
Support strong nuclear supplier liability now!
Thanks!
Karuna Raina
Greenpeace India
Thanks to Accommodation Times for circulating the following article where a slight correction is made by me:
Adopt New Model Bye-Law before 30th April
Posted: 08 Mar 2013 11:29 PM PST
By Accommodation Times News Services
MCS Act 1960 amended as per 97th Amendment Ordinance – 2013 has come into force w.e.f. 15.02.2013. It has become necessity for all the co-operative housing societies to call for a Special General Body Meeting before 30.04.2013 to adopt the MODEL BYE – LAWS OF COOPERATIVE HOUSING SOCIETY AS PER 97TH CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT and MAHARASHTRA CO-OP. SOCIETIES (AMENDMENT) ORDINANCE 2013. The agenda should be as following:
1) To discuss about the MODEL BYE – LAWS OF COOPERATIVE HOUSING SOCIETY AS PER 97TH CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT and MAHARASHTRA CO-OP. SOCIETIES (AMENDMENT) ORDINANCE 2013 and adopt the same (copy of the Model Bye Laws is attached)
2) To appoint auditor
3) To appoint auditor from the penal approved by the co-operative department
4) One auditor can not continue for more than 3 years and can NOT take up auditing of more than 20 co-operative societies
5) To submit the copies of adopted Model Bye Laws to the concerned registrar’s office for approval.
All the societies whose term is over before this (15.02.0213) or is going to be completed within next six months must follow the above procedure immediately.
It is binding for all the societies to hold AGM before 30th September. There is no provision for extension.
The related Circular No. 503 dated 28.02.2013 issued by Deputy Registrar of K – West Ward
J.B.Patel (Jeby)
Housing Societies’ Activist!
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Latest CHS Model Bye-laws – 2013
Comparison of Old 2009 and New 2013 Model Bye-Laws
Here are the Model Bye Laws of Housing Co-operative Societies as per 97th Amendment
Click Here for the full document
Courtesy : J.B.Patel (Jeby) Housing Societies’ Activist! Mobile:9820538570
We do not know the efficiency of Online Grievance Registration with Commissioner for Cooperation and Registrar, Cooperative Societies (CC & RCS), Maharashtra State, Pune.
However, one may start using the link to register online their new as well as old complaints and grievances :
https://sahakarayukta.maharashtra.gov.in/SITE/Information/Complaints.aspx
J.B.Patel (Jeby)
Housing Societies’ Activist!
Mobile:9820538570
EPF India has launched the Link for Members' Portal wherein employee has to register himself & can check his/her PF account online by clicking on the below Link. members.epfoservices.in PF Office has uploaded the Data on their server till Sept-12 & same will get updated every quarter. You can also take a statement of your EPF passbook as well. Please find attached herewith the guidelines to register in the Members' Portal as well as the FAQs. EPFO write up FAQs
Consumer forum orders HDFC Bank to refund hefty amount charged illegally from a credit card holder
Ahmedabad, 28th November, 2012
In a case that exposes unfair trade practice adopted by a leading private sector bank, which charged a hefty amount from its credit card holder by wrongly interpreting rules despite timely payment of the due, The Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum, Ahmedabad (Additional) has ordered the bank to return the amount with interest from the day it was collected. The case was filed by Consumer Education and Research Society (CERS) on behalf of a city resident Dipak Sheth on 8 September 2009. The Forum issued its ruling on 22 October 2012.
Dipak got issued a credit card from the Bodakdev branch of HDFC Bank in 2005. Later on, he shopped worth Rs. 3,786 in December 2005 using his credit card. The payment for the credit card bill was due on 27 January 2006 and he deposited a cheque of UCO bank, Ahmedabad branch, on 24 January 2006. The check was realised on 31 January 2006 due to which HDFC Bank charged a late fee of Rs. 275. This fee was refunded afterwards. However, the bank also charged Rs. 110 towards outstation collection fee and Rs. 89 as finance charge, which was not refunded despite repeated requests by the client. The bank also collected Rs. 8,043 from the savings bank account of the card holder against his due of Rs. 199. No attention was paid to Sheth’s plea for refund of this amount charged illegally.
Dipak approached CERS about this kind of unfair practice by HDFC Bank. CERS moved to the consumer forum seeking refund of the amount along with interest. The forum ordered the private sector bank to refund Rs. 8,050 along with interest at the rate 9 percent from the day it was collected i.e. on 3 June 2008 and also to pay Rs. 1,500 to the complainant as compensation for the mental agony he has faced and Rs. 1,500 towards the litigation cost.
For further information please contact Ms. Pritee Shah (O) 079-27489945/46
There are many covenants and indemnity bonds the developer has to agree to, with the members in order to have a smooth redevelopment process. The following are some of them :
Consumer Resources 