The managing committee of East End Apartments, one of the largest co-operative group housing societies in Delhi’s Mayur Vihar Phase I Extension, is set to take a final call on modernisation of lifts in the society on Sunday, June 4. It has invited all residents to attend a special general body meeting, to be held in the society’s Basement No 4 at 10.30 am.
As earlier reported by City Spidey, all 58 lifts in the society’s multistorey buildings have become outdated and residents have made complaints that using these lifts is no less than putting their lives at risk. Following these complaints, the managing committee, headed by BK Singh, president of the society, had decided to replace all old lifts with new ones.
To meet the expenditure for this move, the committee had estimated that each of the 958 flats in these multistorey buildings would need to contribute Rs 20,000-Rs 25,000. However, on Wednesday, K Pashupathi, a senior member of the managing committee, told City Spidey that after a new estimate, the contribution from each flat had come down to Rs 5000-Rs 7,000.
“Replacement work will be carried out in two phases,” Pashupathi said. “In the first phase, 29 lifts — one from each block — will be replaced. The managing committee will pay around Rs 1 crore from its own coffers for this.”
“The second phase,” he added, “will begin eight months later.”
JP Verma, secretary of the managing committee, has issued a letter to all society residents, urging them to attend this important meeting. All residents have also been requested to carry a valid photo identity card — whether a passport, a driving licence, their PAN card or their Aadhar card — when they come to attend the meeting.
The committee has also requested residents to send their queries, if any, about this development work in advance — either through email or in handwritten letters. “This will help us be better prepared to answer residents’ questions,” Verma said.
