Dear South City Residents,
SCMC is happy to inform you all that the takeover process is
proceeding smoothly, despite some small hiccups here and there on the
first day..
Yesterday, that is on June 30, 2013, SCMC paid Rs 50 lakhs to L&T as
per the order of the Hon'ble High Court. SCMC has thus discharged its
first major responsibility of honouring a commitment made to the
court by SUGRUHA on behalf of our community. Please find attached a
PDF copy of the letter of transmittal. Needless to say, it has given
tremendous confidence to SCMC and enhanced our community's
credibility.
Today, we took over maintenance responsibility with the assistance of
our new facility manager JLL. JLL conducted a puja in the maintenance
office in B8 basement.
Over the past 15 days or so, several volunteers conducted detailed
inspection of various maintenance related infrastructure/ practices of
our complex, along with experts from JLL and L&T's representatives.
The coverage include i) All electrical installations- DG sets,
electrical panels, transformers, elevators etc ii) All fire safety
infrastructure in each floor and each block and common areas iii)
Water supply, STP, sewage disposal and storm water drainage iv)
street lighting and landscaping v) security deployment vi)
Housekeeping and garbage disposal Vi) solid waste management. Vii)
Status of various terraces
Today, while taking over from L&T , SCMC.has handed over all the above
detailed inspection reports with the demand that L&T rectify
deficiencies as soon as possible. We are hopeful L&T will do so.
Please find attached a PDF copy of the above letter delivered to L&T
this morning.Those of you who are interested in going through any/all
of the above inspection reports may do so at the office of SCMC in our
Club House (the small room next to SUGRUHA office)
SCMC has also obtained the necessary PAN and Service tax registrations.
We have also finalized the arrangements for water tankers, and signed
contracts for AMCs with ThyssenKrupp and Mitsubushi for their
elevators. We will be signing up Kone and Otis by tomorrow.
SCMC would like to place on record the contributions of several
volunteers, though we are bound to commit the sin of some inadvertent
omissions:
1. The team which assisted Mr. Sathyamurthy in handling collection of
ad hoc maintenance charges- Messrs. Prasad, Deshpande, Mukesh, Anant,
Shana, Suchetna, Lalitha, Sapana, Trishna, Rama, Simmi, Venkat and (we
are sure) some family members of Mr. Sathyamurthy. As per our
guestimate, by thisafternoon, cumulative collections must have crossed
the Rs 2 Cr mark. Our next big payment will be the quarterly advance
for the AMC of all elevators- roughly about Rs 20 lakhs for July,
August, September.. We have also begun putting money in FDs to earn
additional interest.
2. Ganesh and Lalitha for their 'door to door' delivery service for
PAN/ Service Tax registration, including filling and filing of several
forms!
3. Messrs. M.J. Rao, Raffi, Bhattacharya, Subramainan, Deshpande,
Mittal, Seshadri, Suchetna, Sapana and others for assisting us in
conducting inspections and briefing JLL on current practices
4. We had also kept a group of volunteers on standby in case of any
urgent need. Mercifully, we had no occasion to call on them.
Over the next few days, we will be sharing more information like
estimated costs, Help Desk, expected contribution from residents in
preparing / monitoring SLAs etc.
Though we tried our best to reemploy as many security and housekeeping
personnel through our new service providers, even those who are
otherwise willing are under pressure from their current employers..
Thus, there are bound to be some teething problems- especially in
Security and Housekeeping.
Looking forward to your active co-operation.
For South City Maintenance Committee
R. Rajagopalan
Member
B3-502/6057