Experts,
Greetings to you.
I live in Bangalore. I bought a flat 2 years back in one of the apartment which holds 60 flats and our Association is registered in the "Office of Registrar of Societies, Jayanagar, Bangalore, Karnataka".
So far are things are moving OK, though I do not want to say bad.
Few points which are bothering few of the fellow resident are listed below:
1. Bye-Laws were registered without sharing a draft copy with the flat owners and taking their consensus though we had some bye-law discussions for couple of months.
2. They have made the Water Meter installation to all the flat to ensure that people would not be wasting water. However the transaction of entire process costed INR 3,50,000/-. Initially it was communicated that the quotes received for the same would demand INR 3,00,000 and residents agreed to pay INR 5000.00 each, though few of us are not much keen to go with the water meters. Any of the quotes were neither presented in any meeting nor shared with anyone. In one of the meeting it was communicated that they had to shell out another INR 50,000.00 saying first contractor left it and new contractor quoted this much. This was communicated after handing over the contract and they did not take any consensus from flat owners. When questioned they said "SORRY". Recently we have observed that the entire transaction of INR 3,50,000.00 was made in cash. When questioned they giving lame excuses stating that contractor is a normal guy and he does not have any account or anything to give as bill with vlid TIN number.
Out of INR 3.5L, it is informed that only INR 60K - INR 70K, they have bill with which the meters were purchased and rest of the money was spent in cash with out any valid bill.
As per my understanding we are not supposed to pay anything beyond 20K in cash. But these working committee people saying for security and care taker we are paying in cash, why this (Huge amount involved) can not be done in CASH.
As few of the fellow residents were not getting convinced with these lame and meaning less excuses/justifications accused them as "EATEN UP OUR HARD EARNED MONEY".
Immediately these guys sent a email stating our credibility is questioned and we are resigning for that fact.
But they are not showing the quotes, bills or any other sort of proofs which is quiet disappointing. Now situation is they are not taking care of association activities and not allowing anyone to take care. Reason behind that is they have a majority. One flat owner holds 3 GPA and received authorization for 7 - 8 flats belongs to his friends sitting in US. One more owner holds 3 flats from his family and one owner holds 2 and few of other who are getting benefited also supporting him though they are doing illegal transactions.
3. It has been quiet a long time, more than 6 months that the monthly accounts were published to all. When requested them to put forward, they giving excuses that the treasurer is in US and Asst. Treasurer is in native place and all. They are saying till they come back no one can ask them for accounts or any other related to that.
4. They are strictly following proxy voting as they have good majority. Though we insisted whoever present in that day meeting can only vote, they overruled it. Bye-Laws were prepared by them only with out sharing with anyone. How a single person can vote 12 votes / 5 votes / 3 votes is not quiet convincing factor. in my feeling there should be some representative even if we allow proxy voting but not the same person putting all the votes. Do we have any law belongs to association act which can prevent these kind of activites.
Please let me know how to handle these kind of situations.
With the help of majority they are making others living way difficult.
Looking forward for suggestions to come out of this crisis.
