Pune: The state cooperation department will submit in the second week of Oct suggestions and objections from the public on the proposed amendment to the Maharashtra Apartment Ownership Act , 1970, a top official has said. Deepak Taware , commissioner of cooperation and registrar of cooperative societies, told TOI that a 10-member committee held another meeting with stakeholders on Thursday. There would be a few more such meetings after which the suggestions would be compiled and the final draft would be sent to the state govt, he said.
The committee, headed by Taware, was set up by the department on June 7 to review the Act amid demands from housing societies for changes to the decades-old legislation. Maharashtra has more than one lakh buildings registered under the Act, with Pune district alone accounting for more than 15,000. "After our department has submitted the report, the state will publish it in a gazette and invite suggestions and objections from the public," Taware said.
Last month, a Pune citizens' group had demanded that the state start an online portal to register all apartments and to ensure that suggestions were sought from all stakeholders on the proposed amendment. Housing federations had on Aug 30 sent a letter to the cooperation department seeking a proper phase-wise planning to ensure that suggestions reached the state govt. The state had called for suggestions around two months ago, and officials said they had received more than 150 suggestions in Aug al.