Members of Tarapore Towers in suburban Oshiwara, built to provide affordable housing to serving and retired defence personnel, want Maharashtra Government’s intervention to check alleged irregularities, including purported violation of lease deed norms.
Members of the society, including some retired Army officers, in a memorandum to Minister for Cooperatives and Parliamentary Affairs, Harshwardhan Patil, sought action from the government to check “criminalities, illegalities and financial irregularities” since the present Managing Committee assumed office in 2007.
“This society was formed by the Army Welfare Housing Organisation to provide dwelling units to serving or retired defence personnel and their widows at low cost,” a member said. It was a welfare scheme with MHADA leasing the land for construction, he added.