Noida: Express View Apartment residents force RWA to reverse its decision
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Noida: Express View Apartment residents force RWA to reverse its decision

A day-long protest by residents against a RWA decision to close Gate 5, that was most popular with residents, forced the management committee to open the gate. And this reversal came about after police intervention.

 

Noida: Express View Apartment residents force RWA to reverse its decision The residents during the protest

Tempers in Express View Apartments of Sector 93, Noida, are running high. Residents are up in arms against the RWA management committee for its unilateral decision to close down a gate that most residents use.

Some 100 odd residents of the society on Sunday held a protest to force withdrawal of the decision of the office bearers of the society management committee to close down Gate No 5, which was causing great inconvenience to them.

The protests that began in the morning lasted till the evening and it was after police intervention that the Gate in question was opened.

How can anyone close a gate that was being used by 400 residents, questioned a resident. He said that this gate gave them easy access to a milk booth on the main road and also it was a point where school children were picked up and dropped.

But after the gate was closed, people are having to walk extra miles to reach the same milk booth. And children too are having it tougher.

Gajendra Kumar, a resident and an ex-office bearer of the management committee, said, “The RWA has closed the gate without giving residents any valid reason. They are saying that all those residents who were using the gate in question should now use other gates of the society for entry and exit.”

Sujeet Pandey, president, RWA, was not available for comment. His wife, VP Pandey, told City Spidey that the gate was closed for security reasons as there had been cases of chain snatching just outside this gate.

"For few hours, the gate is opened for school children. But some residents are protesting, purely for political reasons. Actually this group had lost the RWA elections," she alleged. 

This gate, Pandey said, opens towards a village called Gejha and hence is a potential security threat. "In most societies, only two gates are opened, and here the residents are demanding the opening of a third gate too," she complained.