Cooperative housing societies in Pune and Chinchwad area in Maharashtra are sore angry at the fact that despite a circular issued by the cooperative department, local bodies are not helping them with authorization letters, reports Times of India.
However, when asked civic officials pleaded ignorance of the circular. Pune city and PCMC in total have 16,000 registered housing societies.
The cooperative department has through the circular urged societies to get registered with it even if they do not have their occupation certificates and commencement of construction and completion certificates. But for this, the societies needed approval from local bodies stating that their buildings were authorised.
Meanwhile, some societies have described the circular as “a good initiative” but “highly ineffective” without the support of the local bodies.
A cooperative department official claimed in Pune itself, there are over a lakh housing societies and more in PCMC but very few are registered.