Chander Kunj apartment owners resist move by army housing forum to opt out of tripartite agreements for appointing consultant, demolition contractor

Residents of Chander Kunj Army Apartments person powerfully objected to the reported effort by the Army Welfare Housing Organisation (AWHO) to opt retired of the tripartite agreements successful the assignment of task absorption advisor (PMC) and demolition contractor for the projected demolition and reconstruction of the duplicate service towers astatine Vytilla successful Ernakulam district.

The substance came up for treatment astatine the maiden gathering connected Wednesday (February 18, 2026) of a sub-committee led by Fort Kochi Revenue Divisional Officer, constituted to behaviour play reviews and guarantee strict compliance with the demolition and reconstruction process. The sub-committee was formed pursuing a determination taken astatine the past gathering of the District Collector’s committee, which was acceptable up astatine the lawsuit of the Kerala High Court to oversee the demolition and reconstruction of the duplicate towers, successful presumption of the Collector’s choky schedule.

At the sub-committee meeting, the AWHO conveyed its objection to becoming a signatory to the agreement, which was met with stiff absorption from representatives of the Chander Kunj Army Towers Apartment Owners Association (CATAOA). The statement is to beryllium signed by the CATAOA, AWHO, and the selected advisor and demolition contractor. “We made it wide beyond uncertainty that the AWHO not being a signatory to the task funded by them was non-negotiable, arsenic it was already decided astatine the Collector’s committee. We spot this arsenic a delaying maneuver by the AWHO,” said Sajie Shankar, enforcement committee subordinate of the CATAOA.

Global tenders

The gathering decided to fine-tune the Request for Proposal documents for the assignment of the advisor and demolition contractor and to interval planetary tenders connected February 24.

CATAOA and AWHO representatives reportedly clashed implicit much issues. Apartment owners insisted that the caller structures beryllium greenish buildings, pointing retired that the towers to beryllium demolished had followed the greenish protocol. The AWHO objected, arguing that the flat owners had already availed taxation benefits astatine the clip of registration. “Demolishing buildings wrong 7 years of operation is itself a large biology loss, and that is each the much crushed to travel greenish protocol successful aboriginal constructions to offset the damage,” said Mr. Shankar.

The AWHO further insisted that since the existing buildings did not person a swimming pool, they were not obliged to supply 1 successful the caller structures. However, the CATAOA disputed this, claiming that the archetypal gathering program submitted by the AWHO for support had included proviso for a pool, a committedness which they yet went backmost on.