The modern urban form of residential complexes involves the presence of a Resident Welfare Association (RWA) to be created to collect funds and utilise them for solving common issues faced by the residents. A few days later in Mumbai, in the building where my mother lives, a resident stormed into the maintenance office when I was there. RWAs can be notoriously arbitrary in their rules, disallowing in some cases even pets into the society’s garden. But there are ways of recourse for residents who wish to protest against the RWA’s rules. As living in independent houses becomes rarer and apartments the norm, we probably need clearer rules delimiting the powers of RWAs.

Source: dna December 08, 2017 01:52 UTC