PUNE: Increased Maintenance fee by Housing Societies upsets residents

 

PUNE: With the decision of hike in the maintenance fee by several housing societies made residents upset and unhappy.   

Rupali Naik, resident of NIBM road said, “We have suffered pay cuts and we’re trying to make ends meet in a limited budget. Though the income had reduced, bills have not. From this month, the management committee of our housing society has also increased the maintenance fee by 10%.”

 
“I thought that the society is overcharging me but I found out that these are additional costs for sanitation that will be added to the maintenance charge. We don’t know whether it will be for the next few months or more. They have said that it is a temporary increase. In addition, we also have to pay for regular checkups for domestic help and security staff,” said by Wanowrie resident Rahul Agarwal said,

 “Living in a housing society is getting very expensive. This year, the rent has been increased because the flat owner has to pay the extra maintenance charges.” As stated by Sumit Patel, a resident of Salunkhe Vihar.

One member of Managing committee of single-building housing society in Kondhwa said, “We have had a couple of Covid-19 cases in our building. We have to keep up the sanitization standards to ensure residents’ safety. For this, the expenses have risen over the last few months we have been using our funds. Now, since sanitization costs have become a regular expense we have to add it to the maintenance charge.”