The West Bengal Apartment Ownership (Amendment) Bill, 2015 was on Wednesday passed in the state Assembly to facilitate apartment owners in maintaining their premises.
With the Bill coming into force, majority apartment owners would be empowered to execute a declaration required for maintainance of their residential or commercial premises, state Housing Minister Aroop Biswas told the House speaking about the Bill.
Earlier, all apartment owners were required to submit a declaration for such purposes. There was a real difficulty earlier in submitting a declaration, as stipulated under section 2 of the said Act, executed by all the owners of a building, the minister said.
Simultaneously, The West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (Amendment) Bill, 2015 was also passed in the state Assembly today to empower the state government in extending the period of supersession of the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education for a further period of one year <g data-gr-id="12">upto</g> July 20, 2016, state’s School Education Minister Partha Chatterjee said.