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Senior citizens in a group housing society of Dwarka in New Delhi urge the government to save them from dust and noise pollution of extended FAR construction activity. Photo and Campaign by Rakesh Raman / RMN News Service (file photo)

Stop Lethal FAR Construction, Corruption, and Pollution in Delhi

Aug 20, 2025 by RMN Foundation 0 Comments #CGHS, #Construction, #FAR Construction, #Housing, #Pollution

Stop Lethal FAR Construction, Corruption, and Pollution in Delhi

Illegal floor area ratio (FAR) construction in Delhi housing societies

🏠 Delhi residents: Take action on civic problems like stray cattle and garbage in your residential colonies by registering your complaint at the “Clean House” community-driven free online service.

Launched in 2017 by journalist Rakesh Raman, Clean House is a free editorial and advisory public service that empowers residents of Delhi to report corruption and government carelessness affecting their housing and civic life.

Rakesh Raman

Floor Area Ratio (FAR) Construction

These days, a harmful floor area ratio (FAR) construction is happening in India’s capital New Delhi. The FAR scheme of the government allows Delhi’s cooperative group housing societies (CGHS) to carry out massive construction in occupied housing societies.

Since the FAR construction which runs for years spreads lethal dust pollution, noise pollution, and air pollution in housing complexes, hundreds or thousands of children, men, women – including senior citizens – who live in these houses have been suffering for the past few years.

The citywide construction-cum-corruption racket – termed as Widehouse Corruption Scandal – is being run by local criminals who operate as management committee (MC) members of housing societies.

The MC members collude with crooked politicians, corrupt bureaucrats, complicit police officials, dishonest members of judiciary, and builders’ mafia to carry out FAR construction.

[ Also Read: Delhi Housing Societies Rocked by Widespread FAR Construction Crime ]

[ Video: दिल्ली हाउसिंग सोसाइटियों में FAR निर्माण अपराध कैसे रोकें ]

[ FAR Construction: Complaint Filed Against DDA Vice Chairman IAS Subhasish Panda ]

“After the criminal enterprise of Nazi Germany during the Holocaust for the genocide of millions of European Jews, the Widehouse Corruption Scandal is believed to be the largest organized massacre not only in India but also in the world,” said Rakesh Raman, founder, RMN Foundation.

In this criminal attack, millions of people are victims of a single crime which is being brazenly supported by the Indian government to harm its own citizens. If not stopped, the harmful construction will continue in Delhi for many years – even until 2030.

This scandal has been given the name Widehouse, because it is being run under the garb of widening the occupied houses where men, women (including senior citizens), and children are living. The expansion of existing houses is being imposed on residents to extort massive money from them.

Although a number of departments and officials are involved in this scandal, the criminal MC members mainly collude with the corrupt officials of Delhi Development Authority (DDA), Registrar Cooperative Societies (RCS) office of Delhi Government, Delhi Fire Service (DFS), Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC), and Delhi Police.

RMN Foundation urges the law-enforcement agencies in India and abroad to intervene and get this genocidal crime stopped so that people of Delhi could live in a clean environment.

[ You can click here to watch the following video on RMN YouTube Channel and subscribe to the Channel to watch more informative videos. ]

About RMN Foundation

RMN Foundation is the humanitarian initiative of Raman Media Network (RMN) News Service. It runs various projects and campaigns in the areas of human rights, environment protection, school education, and corruption prevention.

Currently, all the activities of RMN Foundation are being managed single-handedly (without any support) by its founder Rakesh Raman who is a national award-winning journalist.

Earlier, he had been associated with the United Nations (UN) through the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) as a digital media expert to help businesses use technology for brand marketing and business development.

People and organizations from all over the world are invited to join hands with RMN Foundation as donors, volunteers, and partners to carry out humanitarian activities for diverse communities.

Donation: You may please click here to donate online.

Contact

Rakesh Raman
Editor, RMN News Service [ Website ]
Founder, RMN Foundation [ Website ]
463, DPS Apts., Plot No. 16, Sector 4
Dwarka, Phase I, New Delhi 110 078, India
WhatsApp / Mobile: 9810319059 | Contact by Email

Office of the Registrar Cooperative Societies (RCS) of Delhi Government, which is among the most corrupt departments of India. Photo: Rakesh Raman / RMN News Service

Activities, Research

Process for Residents to File Complaints Against Housing Societies in Delhi

Feb 3, 2025 by RMN Foundation 0 Comments #Clean House, #DDA, #Delhi Police, #Housing, #Housing Societies, #RCS

Process for Residents to File Complaints Against Housing Societies in Delhi

“Clean House” runs as a community court to report about crime and corruption happening in Delhi’s cooperative group housing societies.

By Rakesh Raman

Introduction

The cooperative group housing societies (CGHS) of Delhi have become dangerous centres of crime and corruption. The crimes in these housing societies are being committed by the management committee (MC) members or administrators in connivance with the corrupt officials of Registrar Cooperative Societies (RCS) of Delhi Government, Delhi Development Authority (DDA), Delhi Police, Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC), and a few other departments.

When the residents do not get proper response from their MCs or other government departments, they file their complaints at the offices of the Lt. Governor (LG) of Delhi or the Chief Minister (CM) and other Ministers of Delhi.

While Delhi CM and other ministers of Delhi Government are themselves embroiled in massive corruption cases and Delhi LG is an incompetent bureaucrat, they do not resolve public grievances. So, the aggrieved residents do not have any administrative forum where they could complain and get relief.

The crimes being committed by the housing society MCs in collusion with government officials include corruption, fraud, cheating, bribery, intimidation, extortion, unauthorised construction, environmental damage, and so on.

After facing extreme harassment by the MC members, some residents file their cases in courts. But since courts are always overcrowded and judicial systems are inefficient, the court decisions are either inordinately delayed or lack justice. The less said about the Indian courts, the better.

In a nutshell, utter lawlessness has been persisting in Delhi.

Clean House Service

In order to help the residents who are tortured by the MC members in different housing societies, as a journalist and social activist I have been running the “Clean House” service for the past 7 years.

“Clean House” runs as a community court to report about crime and corruption happening in Delhi’s cooperative group housing societies. While hundreds or thousands of suffering residents have already availed the services offered by “Clean House,” more residents are encouraged to file their complaints through this online service.

Extension of “Clean House” Service: Now, in 2025, the scope of “Clean House” service has been extended to include DDA flats, J.J. Colonies, and other types of houses where residents are suffering because of government corruption or carelessness.

The complaint-handling process for “Clean House” takes place with the following steps:

Step 1: The complainant fills out a simple online form and informs me through WhatsApp or email that they have submitted the form.

Step 2: After receiving the form, I will contact you over the phone to briefly discuss the case and seek relevant documents about your complaint.

Step 3: I will hold an online meeting with you on Zoom, Google Meet, etc. for about 20 minutes to understand the case. The meeting will be recorded as a video. This meeting video will be published under the “Clean House” service page where your case is published as well as on YouTube. The case information as well as the meeting video will be publicly available.

Step 4: The complainant will also send me at least 2 photographs in horizontal / landscape format of their housing society building from the front side where the name of their society is written and where a particular incident such as illegal construction, tree felling, encroachment, etc. has happened.

Step 5: Depending on the case and with your consent given in the online form, I will issue a formal notice to the MC of the housing society against which you have filed the complaint. I will wait for the MC’s response for a couple of days and then – if required – I will approach the authorities such as the RCS, DDA, Delhi Police, or others to get the matter resolved.

Step 6: Depending on the response from the MC or the authorities, I will keep updating the webpage on which a particular housing society’s case is published under the “Clean House” service. I also urge the complainants to share this webpage link with their friends, colleagues, and neighbours through WhatsApp, email, or social media platforms.

References: You can click the following links to study some of the cases that I have handled for different housing societies.

[ Case Link 1 ]

[ Case Link 2 ]

[ Video Link ]

[ Case Link 3 ]

[ Online Form to Register Your Complaint ]

[ Clean House Service Link ]

Principle: It is only an editorial and advisory service, which does not commit any favourable outcome to the complainants. This service is based on the principle that if information about some criminal activity is in the public domain on a dedicated media platform, there is a probability that it will get noticed and addressed by the law-enforcement agencies.

Latest Video Meetings
Illegal Construction	FAR Crime and Threats	Entry Fee

YOUTUBE VIDEOS ON HOUSING SOCIETY CASES
FAR Construction	Money from New Members	Most Corrupt MCs
Illegal Activity	Electricity Subsidy Fraud	FAR Construction Damage
Entry Fee in Societies	Illegal Construction	Demand of Undue Money
Complaint Process	Lethal FAR Project	RAFAR Group
MC Corruption	Online Form	Letters to Stop FAR
Membership Money	PGMS Service	Crimes by MCs

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Also, people will not be willing to buy flats or live as tenants in those housing societies whose crime and corruption cases are reported under the “Clean House” service. The value of flats in these housing societies is expected to fall and they will be treated with disdain in the city and social circles.

In order to extend the reach of this service, I use all the information of different housing society cases on my media properties to publicly inform others including the authorities about the cases that I compile.

Since I work alone to provide this free service along with my other editorial and social responsibilities, my response to your complaint can get delayed.

Donation: While I am providing this “Clean House” service free of charge to the residents, you are requested to support it with your donations. You can click here to donate online or click here to pay to our bank account.

Note: The “Clean House” service will not take up the cases of those residents / complainants who have hired the services of lawyers / advocates.

You can also click here to read about the “Most Corrupt Management Committees MCs in Delhi Housing Societies.”

Email Checking: Since the free email services such as Hotmail, Gmail, and Yahoo Mail are behaving erratically, you are advised to always check your Spam box to retrieve the genuine emails. You can click here to read a related article that I wrote recently.

[ VIDEO: You can click here to watch a related video in Hindi. It is also given below. ]

Thank You

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Long-term construction and repair work in occupied housing societies is a major cause of increasing coronavirus in India’s capital New Delhi. Photo: RMN News Service

Research

Stop Coronavirus in Delhi Housing Societies

Mar 26, 2020 by RMN Foundation 0 Comments #Coronavirus, #Delhi, #Housing

It is being observed that the risk of coronavirus (COVID-19) is increasing rapidly in India. While the government does not have proper hospitals and healthcare infrastructure to test and count the coronavirus cases and casualties, it is giving some random, off-the-cuff numbers about the disease. Actually, the number of coronavirus patients and deaths in India is far higher – probably in thousands – than what is being reported.

Meanwhile, a report focuses on coronavirus in Delhi’s housing societies where millions of people live. The government is not taking proper steps to stop non-essential, long-term construction projects in the occupied housing societies where men, women, and children are already living. This has increased the probability of coronavirus contagion in the entire city, and eventually it will bring dire consequences for the entire world.

Although this report has been shared with the local government, it is terribly slow in taking any action. Therefore, the global community including the UN, WHO, the U.S., and the European Union are requested to urge the Delhi Government as well as the Indian Government to immediately put a permanent ban on non-essential construction in occupied housing societies and fully sanitize these housing areas to save the lives of people.

You may please download and read the report to take immediate action. It is also given below in the digital format.

Research

How to Stop Crimes and Corruption in Delhi

Jan 19, 2020 by RMN Foundation 0 Comments #Corruption, #Crimes, #Delhi, #Housing, #RCS

How to Stop Crimes and Corruption in Delhi

Today, crimes and corruption in Delhi’s cooperative group housing societies (CGHS) are increasingly rapidly, while the existing laws for these societies are ineffective. The Registrar Cooperative Societies (RCS) office of Delhi Government, which is supposed to regulate the CGHS affairs, has completely failed in its responsibility to ensure smooth and transparent functioning in the housing societies.

Therefore, there is an immediate need to formulate new laws and implement an effective administrative model to safeguard the rights and interests of millions of people who live in these housing societies.

The newly elected Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) after the Delhi Assembly election in February 2020 should take up the Delhi Housing Societies Bill, 2020 to make it a law for the CGHS residents.

All the stakeholders including Delhi residents, honest politicians, and responsible bureaucrats should support this Bill so that it becomes law at the earliest. This law will be extremely helpful to ensure a peaceful and corruption-free environment in housing societies and thus for all the residents of Delhi.

You may please send me your feedback and suggestions about this Bill, and circulate it among all your family members and friends in Delhi so that we could collectively discuss and urge the government to implement it immediately. This is our responsibility as citizens to make the government work honestly and diligently in order to make Delhi a livable place.

You can click here to download the Bill. It is also given below in the digital format.

Contact

Rakesh Raman
Founder
RMN Foundation
463, DPS Apts., Plot No. 16, Sector 4, Dwarka, Phase I
New Delhi 110 078, INDIA
Mobile: 9810319059
Contact by email

Activities

Clean House to Stop Corruption in Delhi Housing Societies

Mar 2, 2019 by RMN Foundation 0 Comments #Corruption, #Delhi, #Housing

As you know, today corruption and illegal activities have gone rampant in Delhi’s cooperative group housing societies and it appears that no government exists in the city-state to control the rising tide of lawlessness in these societies.

Almost all the managing committees (MCs) of housing societies are under the control of corrupt MC members who mostly operate as money-collecting gangs. They are supported by deep-pocketed builders and corrupt bureaucrats and politicians.

As millions of common residents are victims of the terror unleashed by the MC members of different societies, I have started an exclusive editorial section under the banner “Clean House” to help the suffering residents raise their voice against the growing injustice.

If you want Clean House to report about the corruption and illegal activities in your housing society, you may please contact me with relevant documents and details.

You can click the following weblink to read the full report and the active cases that I have recently covered for different housing societies.

[ Report Corruption in Delhi Housing Societies to Clean House ]

Thanking You

Rakesh Raman
Founder
RMN Foundation

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