greater noida in the face of insufficient manpower and inaction on the part of greater noida authority sector alpha 1 of greater noida has decided to fine people who put up banners and paste posters in the area or generally deface property according to the sectors rwa defacing of public property including signage electricity panels walls gates and unipoles has become a menace in the area and complaints made to the authority have fallen on deaf ears forcing the pace on the issue the rwa members held a meeting recently and took the decision to impose the fine officials cited lack of manpower in the inability to clean our society and so we decided to do it ourselves said jitinder bhati president of the sectors rwa he said the sector has more than 1400 houses of which about 1300 are occupied for the last 15 days we have been cleaning up our sector ourselves by tearing down the advertisement material bhati said but now onwards members of the rwa will be asked to monitor their surroundings and catch miscreants redhanded he said bhati added that contact numbers on the advertising material would be used to track down miscreants and penalize them the first offence will invite a fine of rs 500 a secondtime offender will be asked to pay rs 1000 and for the third time police help will be sought and an fir lodged in july another rwa of betai in the city had decided to levy a hefty fine rs 21000 on dog owners whose pets soil the colonys parks according to members of the rwa the decision had followed the insensitive attitude of the dog owners and the greater noida authority which had turned a deaf ear to the problem the rwa general secretary claimed that their order has been about 70 effective in dissuading dog owners from bringing their pets to the park