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MUMBAI: Soon, Covid-19 vaccination drives will come to your doorstep. The BMC is permitting housing societies to tie up with private hospitals to hold these drives within their premises, subject to availability of stocks. Hospitals will have to ensure all protocols are followed during the drive. These vaccines will come at a cost fixed by the government for private hospitals. While some housing societies are already in talks with the BMC, a few others are trying to set up their infrastructure.
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Mumbai: Faced with Covid cases threatening to spiral out of control and with home-quarantined patients playing truant, the Maharashtra Government has decided to confer the powers of police officers to the chairpersons and secretaries of cooperative housing societies. Their mandate will be to see that Covid patients who are home quarantined, remain at home and adhere to the stipulated norms. The chairperson and secretary will not enjoy powers under the Indian Penal Code or Bombay Police Act but they can exercise their authority and ensure that the Covid patients in their housing societies donât wander around but remain confined to their homes.
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MUMBAI: The Maharashtra government on Tuesday decided to allow all co-operative socities, including housing societies. The state government had postponed elections in all co-operative institutions since May and as per the latest order issued in January the elections were postponed till March 31.
According to the government order issues on Tuesday, the January order that postponed elections till March 31 stands cancelled and all elections in all co-operative societies like banks, housing socities can be held.
However experts say socities with up to 250 members will not be able to hold elections despite being allowed to as the rules for their elections haven t been notified by the government since the last two years. Only housing socities with more than 250 members will be able to hold elections, smaller societies will not able to as their rules are yet to be notified, said Ramesh Prabhu, Maharashtra Societies Welfare Association.