Scams hit housing co-ops

The government is dragging its feet in taking action against erring cooperative housing societies connected to bigwigs especially the Film Nagar Cooperative Housing Society, the TNGOS Mutually Aided Cooperative Society and others who were allotted government land.

In a damning report, Additional Registrar of Cooperative Society Dr Mrs N. Kiranmayee, who has now been shifted to another department, recommended to the Commissioner for Cooperation and the Registrar of Cooperative Societies a CBI or vigilance inquiry into the grave irregularities in Film Nagar Housing society. Though the recommendation was made on October 11, 2012 in an inquiry report, no action has been initiated so far due to pressure from film industry bigwigs.

Ironically,

Dr Kiranmayee undertook the investigation as per the instructions of the government and gave a series of reports on the Filmnagar housing scam. With the names of all film bigwigs emerging and some plots in the names of politicians, the government seems to be scared to open the Pandora's Box.

After a door to door survey, the inquiry official found that in one Type A site II alone out of the 88 plot owners 57 were found to be not from the film industry in the Film Nagar Housing Society at Jubilee Hills.

A similar situation existed in other sites and this forced the official to recommend a CBI inquiry against those who owned the plots illegally. The government can take back such plots and give it to those eligible from the film industry. “From membership files it is seen that many documents have been forged and properties are in the name of benamies who are not connected to the film industry,” Dr Kiranmayee said.