Independence has always been a day of great fun and celebration, especially in schools, and evenings has always been spent by people indulging in short outings. This year India would be celebrating its 69th Independence and like each year each one of us have our very own special plans to make this day joyous. But how about celebrating this day in a big way with people of your housing society. Over the past few years the concept of large housing societies have grown in leaps and bounds and hundreds of families live in the one housing society/complex. It’s in fact one of the best things to have happened, as housing societies helped in bringing large number of people closer together and festivals and occasions aid in simply strengthening the bonds.
Accidents by drowning in the swimming pools of apartment complexes is quiet a common occurrences. In fact it was just last week that we reported about a four year child drowning while cycling around the swimming pool of his complex. Swimming pools are a necessity in such high rises as in people’s busy schedules looking for a separate swimming pool outside one’s housing society is simply impossible. So builders make sure that a swimming pool is any which way a part of their plan. However, unfortunately in a bid to meet such rising demands the builders don’t follow the safety norms that must be maintained while building the swimming pools. On the other hand residents are not aware of these rules and they even don’t pay much attention to safety measures that needs to be taken while residents (adults and children alike) are using the pool.
A 4 year old child recently lost his life when he fell into his society’s swimming pool while cycling in the premises. It was a little after 3.30 pm on the 22nd of July 2015 and as usual little Vikhyath rushed down to play with his new tricycle which his parents Abhijith 34, and Pallavi Deshpande had bought for him. 22nd of July was like any other day the only difference being that his grandparents could not accompany when he had rushed down, as the child was very excited to play with his new gift.
Making maintenance dues payments could be quite a cumbersome task, as often, due to your busy schedules you either miss the due date or don’t find the person concerned to hand over your cheques or cash amounts.
But it’s time to heave a sigh of relief because now you can pay dues on CommonFloor Groups web/app allowing easy payments, instant receipt generation and peace of mind! We have integrated with leading payment gateways and becoming the defacto channel for housing societies in India, managing more than 20 crores of online payments every year.
How to use CommonFloor Groups Payments to make your maintenance dues payment?
Step 1 : Log into CommonFloor groups over our web portal or our mobile app and navigate to the ‘Dues’ section.
Step 2: Select the Invoice you would like pay (by default all outstanding invoices are selected) and click on ‘Pay Online’ button
Step 3: Select your preferred mode of payment i.e either credit card/debit card, net banking and click on make payment.
Step 4: You might have to go through the OTP generation process due to the statutory requirements. Once done, you get payment confirmation, as well as instant receipt!
The payment made by you would get credited to your society’s account “directly”, along with your flat/house details as transaction references. You don’t need to manually update it anywhere.
Ain’t that super simple?
- Team Commonfloor Groups
With high-rises and multi-storeyed buildings coming up in large numbers elevators have become the need of the day. But like all other society assets the usage of elevators also have certain rules and regulations associated to it to prevent misuse and to ensure proper maintenance. However, residents most of the time get into a tiff with security guards and even managing committee members over these rules. This creates a lot of tension and unwanted discord within the premises. In Mumbai under the Maharashtra Lifts Act (X of 1939) some changes have been made and rules have been put in place in a more concrete manner. Below are some of the things that members of a housing society must keep in mind while using elevators in their communities.