Noida: The resident of Jal Vinar Society will discuss the selection rights of more than 1,800 ‘nominal’ members during the 28th November public body meeting.
One of the largest and oldest housing colonies in Noida, Jal Viyu Vihar is home to around 3,700 families.
While the colony was built on the land allocated to the Air Force and the Navy Housing Board in 1981 for its personnel, for many years several units were also sold to government employees and other army personnel.
In the secondary market, many individuals and private entrepreneurs also buy property.
Jalvayu control Sehkari Wew Samiti (JVSAS), the overall controlling committee, however, continues to survive with air and defense personnel.
In fact, while selling flats to others, the committee takes the business of the buyer who states that they do not have the right to vote during public body meetings or during deliberation of other resolutions introduced.
Over the past four years, residents who are not from the Air Force and the Navy family have applied for various forums and authorities to obtain voting rights.
Manjul Thapliyal, the son of a retired army and community residents, said, “The former Air Force and Navy personnel are ‘ordinary’ members who have voting rights.
Other, like me and my father, is a member of ‘nominal’ and does not have voting rights.
We have demanded the same right for all residents, regardless of their background.
“The community has 1,875 ordinary members and 1,822 nominal members.
Nominal members have begun to use legal treatment available to them from 2016 and so on.
The first breakthrough in supporting them came in March 2019 when the Noida Authority directed JVSA to change the status of nominal members to become ordinary members and give them voting rights.
Challenging the Decree of the Noida Authority, the community moved Allahabad High Court as soon as it was and the problem remained delayed.
Meanwhile, residents approached the residential agency and development of Uttar Pradesh (UPHDB).
On November 9, the Joint Housing Commissioner (Cooperative) VK Patel wrote to JVSA and asked him to consider the residents’ request to give them the election rights during the coming public meeting scheduled on November 28.
But resolving the problem was not as simple as that, it wasn’t that simple, said the chairman of the community and former Vice-Marshal Air Pradeep Kumar (74).
“To change the status of nominal members, we must change the household budget that has been framed for almost two decades again.
This can be done only if a third of the total members agreed to such a resolution or if the housing commissioner UPHDB gave us the instructions to do so.
We will hold a meeting on November 28 and maintain this problem as a priority agenda.
If we don’t get the required quorum, we will not have a choice but to write to UPHDB for a guide and further direction about this problem, “Kumar said.
He added that the committee had written to UPHDB on three occasions in the past but had not heard from them.