What is my recourse against Housing Society Office in following matter.

Q: Mumbai apartment housing society Maintenance office asks residents to submit photos for ID cards. ID card was to be issued when everybody's information was collected. Several months later, when asked to the management officer about the ID card he said, it will be issued within 15-20 days. Eight months have passed and now they are saying they have lost my photo and asked to submit the new one. Apart from this, there is lot of mismanagement going on in this reputable housing society, so I refused to give another photo and asked them to find the lost photo. What action should be taken against this careless society?
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Yamini Mehta,

17th September 2014

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occupancy certificate

non completion of project

housing societies

mumbai housing society

housing society maintenance

mismanagement in housing society

action against housing society

building laws

violation of the sanctined plan

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Hi,
City Municipal Corporation issue Occupancy Certificate, after ensuring that all compliance of local law is done.
1) Without occupancy certificate, it is difficult to get the water and sanitary connection.
2) Financial institutions insist on Occupancy Certificate for sanctioning loan.
3) People who have invested their hard earned money in such building where no Occupancy Certificate has been issued. They prefer to occupy the flats without power, water and sewerage in fear of loosing the property & their hard earned money.

Laws are different in different states & cities. Wherever any construction is in violation of the sanctioned plan, the commissioner consider that the violation are within 5% of the set back to be provided around the building, plot coverage, floor area ratio and height of the building and he may regularize such violation after recording detailed reason for the same.

Abhishke Karule, Mumbai

18th September 2014

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Hi,
I wanted to know what happens if a building does not have an occupancy certificate? What is the remedy for building which do not have an occupancy certificate?

Praveen Modi, Mumbai

17th September 2014

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Hello, Rakshit

Thanks for your prompt reply.

It has nothing to do with disturbing me or not. It is the carelessness and irresponsibilities of the office staff I have come across many times. Recently, when I asked the person whom I had given the photo nearly, seven months ago,
where is my photo and what happened to it? He gave me bunch of excuses, run arounds and diverted the issue by giving unrelated useless explanations. When I gave the photo, he had put it in a box so I asked him what happened to the box how did the whole box got lost? Do you mean to say you have also lost other people's photos. He did not reply to me. I told him go and find my photo.

Apart from this, it does not take 6 to 7 months to prepare a photo ID.

I have no way of knowing whether other residents' photos got lost or not.

I did speak to the head of the dept. There are lot of inconveniences here and I will be moving out of this place.

I see your point that some times people lose things.

Yamini Mehta,

17th September 2014

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Hi Yamini,
Make sure that it happens with you only or every resident owners. If it happens with everyone then you all can make a written complain to the management of your society for mismanagement. But if it happens with you only, then you should submit the new one because their intention was not to disturb you, may be they have lost your photo. If you can wait for 8 months why not one more month.

Rakshit, Mumbai

17th September 2014

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