Only an elected managing committee can move a co-operative housing society into redevelopment. An Authorised Officer, an Administrator, or a Board of Authorised Officers appointed by the Registrar cannot take that decision.
That bar is in the Government Order issued by the Co-operation Department on 30 September 2026, No. SGRYO-2026/C.R. 108/14-S. It is issued under Section 79A of the Maharashtra Co-operative Societies Act, 1960. It supersedes the 4 July 2019 resolution and every circular issued under that resolution on redevelopment.
The order was written against complaints the department says it keeps receiving. One of them is redevelopment being carried by a committee whose term has expired, or which was never elected in the prescribed manner. Paragraph 3 is the reply to that complaint.
A danger declaration is only the first condition
The order does not treat redevelopment as a free choice for every society that wants a larger flat.
Paragraph 1 says the society may take a decision in its general meeting only if both conditions are met.
The first is a declaration by the competent authority. The building must have been declared dilapidated, or in a ruinous condition, or unsafe for habitation, or dangerous to persons passing by it, or dangerous to any adjoining structure or place. The order does not, in this clause, name which office is the competent authority. What it requires is a declaration of that kind.
Eligibility under the Development Control Regulations is the second
A danger declaration is not enough on its own. The society must also be eligible for redevelopment of its building under the Development Control Regulations.
Both conditions have to exist. Only then may the society take the decision in the general meeting.
The decision belongs to the elected committee, not the Administrator
Paragraph 3 draws the line on who may take that decision.
It may be taken by the managing committee elected under the Maharashtra Co-operative Societies (Election of Committee) Rules, and constituted in accordance with the law.
It cannot be taken by an Authorised Officer, an Administrator, or a Board of Authorised Officers appointed by the Registrar.
Read with paragraph 1, the split is this. The general meeting takes the decision on redevelopment of the building. The body that can carry that process is the lawfully elected managing committee. A Registrar-appointed administrator cannot step into that role because the elected body is not in place.
For members, the test is simple. Ask who is calling the redevelopment meeting. If the answer is an administrator or an authorised officer, paragraph 3 says that decision is not theirs to take. If the committee’s term has ended, or it was not elected as the rules require, the same bar applies.
Self-redevelopment is not outside this order
Paragraph 2 says the order is not limited to the usual builder agreement.
It applies to redevelopment by a developer under an agreement, self-redevelopment, group redevelopment in a federal society, and redevelopment through a cluster of societies.
The procedures laid down for appointing a developer apply to all of these. They also apply to the appointment of a contractor for self-redevelopment, and to development through an agreement.
A society that calls the project self-redevelopment cannot skip the selection procedure by naming the other party a contractor. The appointment safeguards travel with the work. Federation and cluster projects are inside this order too. Their extra rules come later in the same order. They are not outside it.
What this part does not decide
This part does not fix the quorum, the 51 per cent vote, video-call attendance, the tender, or the clauses of the development agreement. Those sit in later paragraphs, so keep reading the follow-up articles.
What it does fix is the gate. A danger declaration plus eligibility under the Development Control Regulations. A decision in the general meeting. And a managing committee that was elected under the rules. Not an administrator.
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