Pls read todays Times of India, Delhi, page 4.
The Great Indian Developers and Town Planers in the Government are at it again ......... HAVING MESSED UP DELHI IN THE PAST 65 YEARS ........ they are now selling TOD to Delhites.
But nothing of it in LOOTYENS DELHI ....... I DON'T KNOW WHY THEY DEPRIVE Lutyens of all their BRIGHT IDEAS ????? After all they too deserve the VERY BEST the Countries WORST HAVE TO OFFER.
In the 80's NCR was the Brain Child of those occupying these very offices ....... THE PURPOSE ....... come along we do not have to be judgmental ..... not everything goes right ...... ROHINI, DWARKA, PATPARGANG (Residential) ........ NEHRU PLACE, BHIKAJI KAMA PLACE, RAJENDRA PLACE (Commercial) ......... OKHLA, NARIANA, WAZIRPUR (Industrial) ...... BRT, YAMUNA RIVER FRONT, SPORTS STADIUMS (Civic Infra) .......
On Paper their Planning is precise ....... and these days with the help of Computer Applications they can make artist impressions of future cities look like sets straight out of Hollywood.
Having failed on all fronts mentioned above and leaving citizens to fend for themselves ...... after all their JOB WAS TO PLAN and HELP DEVELOP ...... Providing Basic Facilities is not their job ...... WATER, POWER, TRANSPORT, PARKING ETC ........ that my friends is the job of the respective Ministries .......
DID YOU ASK THEM ........ that's not our JOB ......
TOD ...... Totally Ontogenetic Development ........ (Ontogenesis - the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level)
In 2005 the recently departed Justice Sabharwal of the Supreme Court had questioned the Urban Development Ministry ...... HOW ARE YOU GOING TO PROVIDE FOR ALL THE EXISTING DELHITES ........ FIRST PROVIDE and THEN PLAN FURTHER ...... he had said.
Mr. Sabharwal is no more with us nor are the Day to Day SC Hearings ........ leaving Delhites at the mercy of those who can only Plan for the Future ...... FUTURE IS BEST VIEWED FROM HEAVEN .......
Mr. Lutyens ..... pls tell us is this the view you had Planned for Delhi ?????
Warm Regards,
Rajiv Kakria
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