In Noida, a deputy registrar’s office will be established soon.

NOIDA: A full-fledged deputy registrar of societies office will open soon in Noida, eliminating the need for residents to travel to Meerut for any issue relating to highrises and residential sectors, including annual RWA or AOA elections.

Varun Khare, deputy registrar of societies, made the announcement in Meerut during a meeting with members of the Noida Federation of Apartment Owners Associations (NOFAA). He told NOFAA that until the new Noida office is established, complaints from Noida residents will be heard via video calls at the deputy registrar’s office in Meerut.

The deputy registrar’s operational office in Surajpur is not fully equipped to handle all issues pertaining to highrises and residential sectors. NOFAA President Rajiva Singh stated, “In Meerut, we met with the deputy registrar and discussed various issues that the district’s AOAs of highrise societies are facing. Among these were the need for simple document renewal at the Surajpur office in Greater Noida, as well as an order to make the model bylaws available online to eliminate confusion among governing AOAs.”

Khare responded to these by saying, “Residents’ welfare bodies must still submit hard copies to the Meerut office because the current office in Surajpur is not equipped to handle the entire registration renewal process. To streamline the process, we intend to open a full-fledged district registrar’s office in Noida.”

“We also intend to use video calls so that residents do not have to make multiple trips to the Meerut office,” said Khare, whose team currently meets once a week in Greater Noida’s Surajpur office and once a month in Ghaziabad to address local issues involving societies and apartments.

In contrast, Khare agreed to reconsider the request for a white paper on model bylaws and respond after further consideration. “Because of recent court rulings and government orders, necessary actions must be considered before proceeding,” he explained. “To aid in future process monitoring, a digital database of AOA elections is being created.”

Other topics discussed at the meeting included builder-related issues, with NOFAA claiming that early AOA formation with builder representatives ‘creates bigger issues in handing over charge.’ “Among highrise societies, we must strive to build a better community.”

According to Rajesh Sahay, secretary general of NOFAA, residents also demanded regulation on the right to vote and fight elections, with the election process elaborately defined as per the society bylaws with due guidelines and clarity.