India, Sept. 23 -- Last month, after the Maharashtra government published its new draft bylaws for the state's over-1,17,000 housing societies, it invited suggestions and objections from stakeholders, including residents, their societies and their federations. According to officials from the cooperation department, over 5,000 suggestions have been received, most of them related to parking, EV charging stations, maintenance fees and curtailing the powers of managing committees.

While the draft bylaws say that any EV charging equipment installed exclusively by a member within their allocated space is the financial responsibility of that member, the suggestions received demand that responsibility be fixed on the society to make the space av...