Shri K. S. Mehra
Commissioner
Municipal Corporation of Delhi
Ambedkar Stadium
New Delhi 110 002
Dear Sir,
Re: Recreation-cum-reading Room
for Sr. Citizens at Priyadarshini Vihar
We refer to
our letter of 18th February 2010 (copy attached for ready
reference), regarding construction of a Recreation-cum-reading room for the
benefit of over 250 senior citizens living in Priyadarshini Vihar, in Shahadra
South Zone. Consequently, a team from
your Community Service Department, Civil Line Zone had inspected the three
tot-lots lying vacant in our colony as a possible site for constructing the
above Centre, in March 2010.
A letter
No.339/SSV/M/2010 dated 28/06/2010 from the Assistant Director, Shahadra North
Zone, Community Service Department has now been received advising that the
proposed site was a park which came under the green belt of the Horticulture
Department (copy enclosed). As such, a
senior citizens’ recreation-cum-reading room could not be constructed there.
In this
connection, we have to submit that while we agree and support that greenery is
very important to protect our environment from global warming, you will
appreciate that it is equally important that our senior citizens are looked
after well so as to utilize their knowledge and experience for the benefit of
the society.
There are
already six parks in our small colony with only 253 houses. Moreover, by constructing a room in the
middle of a tot-lot, no plants/trees will be destroyed. On the contrary, it would be our best
endeavour to grow more flowers and medicinal plants around the recreation room,
and perhaps the senior citizens would be able to contribute a lot in
maintaining the garden, which would be their own. As mentioned before, RWA would take the
responsibility to manage the functioning of the Centre. In view of the foregoing, you are once again
requested to kindly re-consider our request in the overall interest of the
senior citizens of the area.
Thank you
for your kind consideration.
Sincerely
yours,
R. N. Gupta
General
Secretary
PDVihar RWA
Copy
to: Dr A. K. Walia, Hon’ble Minister of
Finance & Urban Development
Govt. of the NCT of Delhi.
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