Maharashtra govt plans to loot housing societies in the name of training them, says Congress
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"There are plans underway to amend the Cooperative Societies Act, under which a mandatory three-hour training session will be introduced for members. It is reported each member will have to pay Rs 120, while a society will be required to pay Rs 1,000 for the session," Sapkal said.
With nearly 1.2 lakh housing societies and around four crore members, the scheme will generate a large amount of money, which Sapkal said will be handed over to a private institution.
"It is a new scam, it must be halted immediately," Sapkal said in a letter to the cooperation commissioner.
Sapkal said it was a different kind of extortion of housing societies under the guise of training of housing society members and will be yet another major scam. "Why burden common members of the housing societies, in the name of societies. If training is to be provided, the state govt should bear the expenses," Sapkal said.
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