Once an RWA gets registered following are the purposes and powers available to a registered RWA: To hear and decide the matters complained by a member of the association. To take up the matter with the competent authorities for the common interest of the residents for providing or improving common facilities in the society like public parks, drainage, roads, streetlights, scavenging, community hall, proper electricity, and water supply, etc. To arrange and organize social and cultural functions from time to time. To make adequate arrangements for poor, widows, orphans, and handicapped orphans, old aged and retired persons To create shelters or provide support for the education of the underprivileged or economically weaker sections of the community. To approach the concerned authorities for a redress of grievances of the member\'s conferences with the concerned authorities. To make correspondence in a lawful manner to arrange meetings, conferences with the concerned authorities. To arrange services like sanitary fittings, plumbing work, electrical work, security and sweeping, etc. for the area. To receive and collect any gift or donations acquired by any lawful means and use it for the fulfillment of all or any other objects of the society.