Suggestions received during GFWA General Body Meeting 22 April 2012

[s1joshi]

Dear members

It was a very enriching day yesterday and we received wide variety of suggestions, Here is compilation of various suggestions\feedback we received for yesterday event.

I have tried to put one liner comments on entries, request working committee members to provide addition.

@ GFWA members : Feel free to add onto list, or provide responses.

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1. Combine the meeting with some children event – like drawing competition or a social cause to make it a family event

Can definitely be considered, This was the intent of Pot Lunch we planned earlier.
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2.
(a)Conduct such meetings at shorter intervals Every meeting should have a MC, and structured. This will save time

(b) Have an "investor's clinic session" after the meeting where experts within the group can address Qs of various investors on topics like EDC, RTI, Liaison, Development, etc. We can have topic-wise sessions. This can eventually help-us in creating a FAQ page on the web

(c) Reach out to other associations like JP Greens, Silver Oak etc developing mutuality and strengthening our (the buyers') position in the eyes of the govt. exploring greater synergies and mutuality working towards a lobby that will influence as well as speed-up the regulatory process

(d) The meeting hall can be garnished well with visuals like photographs of our activities, development work, etc. and there could be a visual interactive session

(e) Not regularly, but once in a while we may invite some eminent personality to grace the platform. This gives a social ambiance.

(f) Lastly, our meetings should not be coupled with any other (distractive) agenda (like today's CM's visit) that creates negative vibes and the audience who come with a specific motive sacrificing a family day (quality time) might feel disappointed and it could affect future attendance.

<Very nice compilation of suggestions by Bidyyutji>
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3. A brunch can be provided on chargeable basis to increase participation of members

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4. Establish Legal cell, Increase media visibility & Appoint points of contact for individual project with contact numbers

<We do have members from most housing projects in the working committee, Will share the link in forum >

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5. BPTP Plot, What to do
Should we pay enhanced EDC + Electrification + STP Charges

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6. Please put a right calculator excel in MyFaridabad.in site for individual projects for right EDC calculation and interest refund for individual projects, so that we can see the calculations on own. – Manish Kawatra (Park Grandura)

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7. I am staying in Delhi, but every time meeting is in Faridabad, so it is not possible to attend every meeting, So I suggest meeting at Delhi locations also. Debanand Sahoo (RPS)

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8. As school are build on green area therefore park facing charges should be returned to consumers who have paid park facing charges for area where school is built
<Several members have been fighting cases on multiple avenues – EOW, National Commission, District Courts etc, I personally don’t trust colonizer to refund money without a lengthy process>

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9. I think AGM should be held every six months, I suggest more time should be given for Question & Answer session – Rohit Mattoo

<We had to slightly rush up our meeting this time for CM meeting, Will try to have a longer Q & A round in subsequent meetings>

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10 . Requirement for public of Greater Faridabad – Dr Chitra
Post office,
police station,
bus service,
sufficient power transformers for houses,
ATM & Bank branches
Water System
<These are all important topics, We have currently been focusing on basic infrastructure – road, water, sewer, electricity, and shall be taking up other areas as well>

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11. Aditya
Steps are required to pressurize builders to handover ready flats
Have GFWA meetings in compound of different projects by rotation to bring pressure on builders
Need to expedite electricity connection
Improve response time to individual email on websites

<It would be good to continue exert on builder by regular follow up and meeting in groups
The responses to individual emails come by the forum members, We all need to actively participate in driving the forum>

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12. Madhav
Can RPS sell school/commercial area after collecting EDC from flat users
<These schools and lawns were always there in the sanctioned layout plan for RPS savanna, That’s a different story that the brochure shown were a different dream altogether>

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13. Hikmat Khan : Shiv Sai
Induct atleast one member from each society in the core committee, so that inspiration is transferred to individuals in the society
<We do have members from most housing projects in the working committee, Will share the link >

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14. Will GFWA take up Builder specific issues in meeting with builders one by one

What about electricity & sewage treatment plant demand by BPTP @rs 100 sqyard, Is calculation of EDC earlier + latest available
<Currently GFWA is trying to cover broader issues, and the project specific issues are being taken up by the individual project members, Most projects have representation in the working committee, and as an association we bring the common complaints to officials, example June 2011, GFWA submitted thousands of complaints for various issues like delay in possession, layout changes etc to DC office via project representatives, Similarly EDC affects all housing projects.

GFWA encourages home buyers from each project to gather together and continue to exert pressure on colonizer, We are aware that several projects have parallel yahoo/google groups on for discussions, GFWA comprises of you and us, In order for knowledge sharing across wider communities, We encourage people to share knowledge and discussion with there builder representatives. >

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15. Umesh Kumar, Ferrous
Better to display GFWA boards in various parts of Faridabad, specifically near DTP office, neharpar and key market places

<We do it during various events, However it is challenging to have it for longer runs, as these gets removed>

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16. GFWA meetings should be held every two months so that we can monitor the development work periodically; this will give us better sense of how the development is progressing and what need to be done

<We try our best to have the meeting on quarterly basis, The updates on development are regularly posted on forum>

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17. Suresh
Once in two months mini meeting post working hours say at 7 pm in public areas in Delhi example at Ansal Plaza, , Central Park, can be held
<Most of us are working in private companies and there is only entry time and no return time .. Hence it gets challenging to plan meeting on working days, By keeping meetings in Faridabad on weekend, enables people to visit in their respective project areas >
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[Arunava]

Dear Core team,

I am having a suggestion. Hopefully other members are also facing same issues and agree with me.

At present whenever any member posts something in message in any subject/thread automatically myfaridabad.com generates mails to all the members of the GFWA irrespective of whether the mail is relevant to all members or not. e.g. For 22 April meeting who so ever confirmed perticipation or non perticipation all the message I have received although I have nothing to do with these messages. There are lots of instances like this. I am getting 20-30 mail a day from my faridabad. Out of which most of the mails are not relevant to me. As a result I am ignoring most of these mails although some the mails may have importance news/ messages.

Can we devise some option through which members can decide whether to send mails to everyone or to core team only. Or to some specific members. And all messages can be available in thread. So that if any member wish to read or refer any message they can do so.

In short can we devise a better way to have a more usefull use of the forum.

Best Regards

Arunava

[webmaster]

Hello Arunava,

Thanks for the suggestion, this topic has been discussed before and we have put in place certain options for email delivery.

Please read this topic for details

Email Notification Functionality

[SachinSatija]

Hi,
This is not common problem for all of us. Most of the people want to see every updates and updated news, whatever happening in myfaridabad.in forums.
Note: Please implement filter function in mail exchange server.
Thanks
Sachin Satija
SSE

[ddamitav]

Hi Jayanta,

Is it feasible to create Distributions List ( DL) Project Wise and one for all so that one can select the DL and mail will go to the mail id tagged to that Distributions List.

Regards,

Amitav

[rizgr8]

Dear Jayanta,

The threads are appearing on the forum website in ascending order in terms of date. To read the latest thread we have to go to the last page and scroll down up to the end.

Can it be possible that thread should appear in the descending according to their posting date, the latest comes first and the oldest in the last page. Hope other members would also like this change.

[webmaster]

Hello Rizgr8,

You can sort the topics in ascending or descending order based on the last post time, there is a selection box below the topics body on every page. You can set your preference from that box.

See attached image for reference



@Amitav - Creating seperate DL for every project is a huge manual task which is why we have not looked at the option. Further, the emails were started as a convenience feature and is not to be considered as an integral part of the forum for receiving notifications. We advise every member to keep visiting the forum for regular updates.