Low-Cost Meals For Capital's Poor

A nutritious and good quality meal for just Rs 15 is Delhi government's promise and aim for the hundreds of poor and homeless people in the Capital.

The plan includes dispatching mobile food units to areas predominantly inhabited by the homeless.

"We have already floated a tender for the scheme, which is expected to be operational sometime around the second week of June," said a senior offi- cial from the department of social welfare on condition of anonymity. The government is following the example of Brazil's `Homeless and Landless Unite' scheme under which the government provides subsidies to NGOs that prepare food for the homeless in community kitchens.

The government proposes to give the city's poor, shelterless population - mainly rickshawpullers, daily wagers, labourers and the like - access to regular but good quality, nutritious food items at a reasonable price through these food units.

The scheme, an extension of Delhi CM Sheila Dikshit's Apni Rasoi (community kitchen) pro- gramme, will reportedly be inaugurated on June 15. "These mobile food units will provide a thali with roti, dal, chawal, chole, etc., to the home- less at Rs 15," said Manoj Parida, principal secretary, Ministry of Social Welfare, Delhi.

The programme comes after an order each from the Supreme Court and the Delhi High Court and will utilise the existing infrastructure of the mid-day meal scheme.

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With thanks : source : Hindustan Times

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CONGRATULATIONS..

Chairman public grievance commssion has stepped into our long pending grievance of encroachment(and merger) of public passage of madhuvan new delhi 110092 by a private primary school( universal public school preet vihar new delhi 110092.
Since 2005, after approval of MANAGING COMMITTEE of our society, i as honorary secretary had been unsuccesfully fighting this case. A simple information regarding land use and ownership of this public passage was denied by VICE CHIARMAN DDA AND COMMISSIONER MCD..DELHI.
Despite regular follow up, raising this issue in BHAGIDARI MEETINGS, REFERENCE BY OUR DEAR MLA Sh.Naseeb Singh to Lt.Governor DELHI besides other functionaries..there was no success. Finally in a case KK GHEI V/S MCD
Honourable Member of Public Grievances Commission ordered removal of encroachment public passage. SDM PREET VIHAR WAS DIRECTED TO ENSURE VACATION OF ROAD IN 2009.
But ALL authorities failed to act and meanwhile i started receiving threats of elimination. One person in feb or march 2010came to our home and advised my wife in my presence that i should not creat enemities. EVEN OUR SOCIETY(of ias,high court judges,police officers etc) stopped taking interest. CCN NEWS REPORTES CAME AND RECORDED MY INTERVIEW AND TV FOOTAGE BUT due to pressure did not aired it. They Had done it as a news item when Mr.Vijay kapur was in CCN NEWS.
Finally, it was CITYPLUS which front paged this encroachment and then OUR BLOG TOOK UP THIS.
Last hearing in chamber of Honourable Member Sh.Gupta did not bring any result as NONE OF MCD was present.
It is now at this juncture that Deputy Secretary PGC has sent hearing notice whic reads as under"Hearing in the following cases will be taken up
on 31/05/2010 at 11 AM in the chamber of Honourable CHAIRMAN Public Grievances Commission,Govt Of NCT of Delhi,M- block Vikas Bhawan New Delhi 110110.
I appologise for this longish mail but seek your pardon and advise how to handle this case. Through this blog i request CITYPLUS TO KINDLY PUBLISH THIS NEWS IN THEIR ESTEEMED NEWS PAPER.
kk ghei

A hope atleast : Delhi to have task force to check water logging.

We will be thankful to Delhi Government for forming any such task force, which can check the water logging in various parts of Delhi. The first task can be the Krishna nagar, the first DLF Colony, which  is very much prone to water logging. Even on the normal rain we get knee deep water on roads & in case of heavy down pour, we can see the Floating beds, Sofa sets and other house hold items in various houses, which has become a routine for the last over 25 years.

While the other localities of Delhi, may think of Pakoras on viewing the clouds in the sky, the residents of Krishna nagar, start fearing the nightmare of water logging instead. Atleast a hope for the residents of Delhi that any such task force is being formed in Delhi, which will check the water logging.

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