Post abduction bid, Eco-Village 1 gate remains contentious
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Post abduction bid, Eco-Village 1 gate remains contentious

The society has only three gates which, according to the residents, are not sufficient.

Post abduction bid, Eco-Village 1 gate remains contentious

Residents of Eco-Village 1 in Greater Noida West protested against Supertech management for closing the temporary gate of the society from where an attempt to kidnap a girl was made ten days ago. They demanded conversion of the temporary gate into permanent and up-gradation of security.

The society has only four gates (one temporary and two permanent), which, according to the residents, are not sufficient for the large population residing in Eco-Village 1.

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Pointing out that about 8,000 flats are coming up in the society. Shyam Gupta, vice-president of Supertech Ecovillage 1 apartment owners' association (AOA), said the three main gates are not adequate enough to meet the requirement of the people living there, hence the requested turn the two pedestrian gates into permanent ones exclusively for EV 1 residents. 

They want a gate near Mother Diary and another near Tower J. This will help the residents in commuting besides giving easy access to reach the nearby market. They have requested the CEO of Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority (GNIDA) to allow the builder to open the gates. Gupta, along with Noida Extension Flat Owners Main Association (NEFOMA) president Annu Khan, had met the CEO  Narendra Bhooshan on Friday and handed over a written request to this effect.

Annu Khan told CitySpidey, "An application from the AOA vice-president to make the gate permanent was given to the CEO. He assured us that he would move the request to the concerned department.

Talking to CitySpidey, Ruby, a resident who has been staying in the society for the last three years, said, " The ladies and older residents of the society have been facing a lot of problem because of the closure of the gate.” 

She bemoaned that their accessibility to the market has been snapped by one hasty and unwise decision of the management.

Though the gate is kept open for school-going children from 6 am to 9 am and 12 pm to 4 pm, it is locked for the rest of the day. It is opened by the guard when a child comes and when a parent moves out from the gate to drop his/her ward but is not let in from the gate and asked to walk down the main gate, Ruby narrated. 

As she owns a parlour in the market near the temporary gate, Ruby says when she closes her parlour at 9 pm, she has to walk some 800 metres on the deserted road in the dark. "I was managing both my home and parlour as there was commuting ease. The closing of the gate is no solution to the problem, rather it has become a problem for the women residents.

Many residents of the society feel that the solution does not lie in the closing of the gate, but enhancing the security of the society for which they pay a high maintenance charge. 


(Note: After the publication of the story, CitySpidey's reporter was flooded by many calls from  Supertech Ecovillage 1. The callers took exception to our naming of Shyam Gupta as vice-president of apartment owners' association (AOA) alleging that the AOA is illegal as they said it was formed without the mandatory minimum occupancy. We are bringing this to the notice of our readers to put the matter straight. CitySpidey has no stake whatsoever in the aforementioned claim or counter-claim.)