Residents association planning to go national

Mar 10 2010 Updated July 4, 2023

The Weekly Source

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Plans are advanced for the individual state residents associations to form a national body to represent it with negotiations with its counterparts, such as the RVA, as well as seek standardisation of regulations. The target date is October to launch.

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