A Community Scheme has several functions, but its primary responsibilities can be condensed into the following:

One of a Scheme’s crucial roles is to manage the scheme’s finances. This involves setting budgets, determining levies, managing funds, and ensuring that expenses like insurance, utilities, and maintenance are covered.

The Scheme is the decision-making body which includes decisions about improvements to common property, the hiring of service providers, and any other matters that affect the community.

The Scheme oversees the maintenance, repair, and overall management of common areas such as gardens, lobbies, swimming pools, and parking spaces. This includes everything from landscaping to security measures.

Every Scheme operates under a set of rules and must ensure that these rules are adhered to, addressing violations and, if necessary, taking corrective actions.

In a community of diverse individuals, disputes are inevitable. The Scheme often plays a mediating role, helping to resolve conflicts and ensuring harmony within the scheme.

Each of these responsibilities go hand-in-hand with each other as they are all crucial to the success of a Community Scheme.

Take a few minutes to imagine a Society without Rules – it would be absolute chaos! Now, image a Community Scheme where there are no rules, “Anarchy” comes to mind.

Remember, rules are intended to create harmony which is the exact opposite of anarchy.

The fair enforcement of rules is vital to create harmony in a Community Scheme and to ensure an absolute sense of neighbourliness.

“Exhibiting goodwill and an absence of antagonism,amicable, friendly, exhibiting goodwill. Amicable implies a state of peace and a desire on the part of the parties not to quarrel. neighborly implies a disposition to live on good terms with others and to be helpful on principle.”

Could an “absence of antagonism”, “to live on good terms with others” and “to be helpful to one another” be what the Good Lord meant by : “Love thy neighbour”?