Recreation-cum-reading Room for Sr. Citizens at Priyadarshini Vihar

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 18^th 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.