Gurugram: BPTP RWA stops essential services, residents protest

GURUGRAM: Braving the cold on Friday, residents of Sector 57’s Freedom Park Life sat down on a dharna and protested against the RWA of the society for stopping essential services, including entry of maids,vendors, newspapers among other key services.

Around 30 residents, including women, children and senior citizens held posters and raised their voice against the RWA alleging harassment. On Thursday, the BPTP Park Life RWA had taken a decision to curtail all these services to the residents who have not paid Common area maintenance (CAM) charges and instructed the facility management to stop entry of all vendors giving services to them, the residents alleged.

“We are senior citizens and need domestic help to assist us in our household chores and for other necessities, however, the RWA has restricted their entry to
our houses, which is completely illegal.

Even if we buy medicine online, they are not allowing the delivery person to enter the society. They have stopped the newspaper, food delivery vendors to those houses who have not paid the CAM charges. We had been living peacefully until recently, but the RWA has created a mess with their dictatorial attitude,” says Inder Singh, a resident of the society. The Freedom Park Life complex comprises of 9 towers, of which six come under plot A, while three towers are under plot B, and both the plots are divided by a
revenue road. There are around 570 families living in the society of which around 180 families live in Plot B. Most of them pay the maintenance charges to the existing Freedom Park Life Apartment Owners Association (AOA) In August last year, the residents alleged that a group of people in the society formed another RWA – the BPTP Park Life RWA – and forcibly took over the maintenance of the three towers in the society.

However, the BPL RWA refuted the allegation and said that the legal status of RWA and AOA has been challenged by a resident in the high court and the matter is sub-judice.
“There has been no accountability in the functioning of the AOA for the past many years, due to which in 2020 we approached the district registrar to register our
RWA. If we are maintaining the society (three towers) then residents should pay the CAM charges to us. Those who protested today, they have done it because of vested interest, however, we have restored the services immediately,” said NP Singh, general secretary BPL RWA.

AK Sharma, president of FPL AOA said, “We are working on an agreement for the ways of engagement in the interim period before one amalgamated RWA is formed.”