Why new bylaw, when there is an old bylaw? Why new registration?

The association was registered during 1999-2000 with registration number 1232/1999-2000. One of the ad-hoc committee member has approached the Registrar of Societies and obtained the details on JASRWA registration. The office of Registrar of Societies intimated that the association has not been renewed since 15 years and to regularize the registration JASRWA has to submit yearly audited reports for 15 years to Registrar of Societies with necessary penalty fees. It may be noted that audited reports, as per guidelines of Registrar of Societies is not available with JASRWA.

The matter came for discussion in the ad-hoc committee meeting. Another option for continuing the activities of association is change the name of the association and go ahead with new registration along with new bylaw.  The committee decided to go ahead with second option i.e., bring out a new bylaw and register the association with a new name.

Hence a new bylaw has been drafted in line with old bylaw, with improvements, instead of amending the old bylaw. The association will be registered with a new name. A new “Jalahalli Space Employees Residents’ Welfare Association” has been proposed in place of “Jalahalli Space Residents’ Welfare Association”.

Highlights of new Bylaw

The new bylaw has been made members friendly rather than executive committee friendly, because the association is in existence because of the members and the monthly subscription provided by them. If any EC member/ office bearer does any mistake then members have been given a lot of rights to question that.

1. The new by law is in line with old bylaw and the similar structure has been retained
2. Many rights have been provided to members, which was missing in the old bylaw; for example right receive copy of bylaw, right to expenditure incurred, right to initiate agenda for  meetings, right to book multipurpose hall
3. Posts which does not have functionality have been removed
4. Sub-committees have been made for School and security (on annual basis) with inclusion of non member (spouse of member)
5. Guidelines have been put for security and school management
6. Detailed guidelines have been written for transport subcommittee
7. Income and expenditure guidelines were strengthened, brought out transparency clauses in all financial transaction
8. Cultural functions: Only national and state festivals will be arranged by the association. All residents/ group of people may celebrate religious/ community functions for which MPH will be made available on request.
9. Detailed guidelines have been put for MPH utilization
10. To bring transparency and accountability a detailed purchase procedures have been brought out.
11. Do’s and Don’ts will give many inputs to residents
12. Many formats have been added in the annexure