Tamil Nadu Government Gazette, Supplement to Part VI, Section 1, No. 50

What the Gazette publication does

The Tamil Nadu Government Gazette publication identifies registered societies that had not filed required reports for more than three consecutive financial years. It treats the listed bodies as non-functioning societies and gives them three months from Gazette publication to respond or file the required material.

Notification No. 12233/E2/2012, dated 17 September 2012, was issued by the Registrar of Societies, Central Chennai. File No. 6992/A3/2010 concerns the Salem West Registration District.

Central Chennai societies

The Registrar of Societies, Central Chennai lists 50 societies registered in 2001. Key provisions are:

• The listed societies had failed to file reports required under the Tamil Nadu Societies Registration Act, 1975 for more than three financial years.
• Each society had three months from publication on 26 December 2012 to provide a proper explanation about its functioning.
• If no proper explanation was provided, the society's name would be removed from the register and the society would be dissolved.
• The list includes residents, house owners and apartment owners associations, as well as welfare, cultural, employee, religious and other societies.

Property related bodies in the list include Golden Castle Flat Owners Welfare Association, The Avvai Nagar Nehru Street House Owners Welfare Association, Romur House Owners Welfare Association, The Apartment Owners Association, J.P. Green Land Apartment Flat Owners Welfare Association and Super Structure Owners Welfare Association Wallaja Big Mosque.

Salem West society

File No. 6992/A3/2010 identifies Ammapalayam Ettikuttai Street, Rajiv Gandhi Memorial Entreprenurs Society, registration No. 1/1996, within the Salem West Registration District.

• The society had not filed the required reports for three consecutive years.
• It was treated as a non-functioning society.
• It was given three months from Gazette publication to file the appropriate reports with an appeal.
• Failure to do so would result in removal of its name from the office register of societies.

Who should check the lists

Members, office bearers and persons dealing with any named society should verify its registration status. Property buyers or owners may be affected where their residents, house owners or apartment owners association appears in the Central Chennai list, but the publication itself does not decide ownership or title to any property.