10th
April, 2017
Mr Arvind Kejriwal, CM, Delhi
Mr Manish Sisodia, Dy CM, Delhi
Dear Sir,
In a meeting with the RWAs of Delhi, before the last assembly
elections, you had made huge promises, on the issue of Empowerment of RWAs. Though
your RWAs Empowerment Vision plan is still
visible on your website, it seems that all the promises that you made with the
RWAs of Delhi have vanished.
Please go through your RWAs Empowerment Vision plan,
as visible on your website, as below :
AAP announces the RWAs empowerment vision plan
:
* AAP unveils its citizens empowerment vision
document
AAP promises RWA Act to give them
legal sanctity
* Rs four crore citizen Local Area Development
Fund annually for each vidhan sabha
This will be solely for recognized RWAs
who follow guidelines
* No interference of MP/MLA in this fund
The Aam Aadmi Party on Saturday unveiled its
citizens empowerment plan at the conference of the Resident Welfare
Associations in the national capital.
At a conference attended by the representatives
of over 700 RWAs across Delhi, former chief
minister and AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal announced the party’s
stand of setting up a Citizens Local Area Development Fund after giving
a legal sanctity to RWAs by passing a RWA Act in the state assembly.
Kejriwal announced that after being elected by
the people in the long overdue assembly elections, the AAP government’s
priority will be to empower the RWAs by creating a Citizens Local Area
Development Fund in each assembly constituency of Delhi and this fund
will be equal to that of the MLA Local Area Development Fund.
He proposed an amount of Rs four crore annually
to allow the legally recognized the RWAs to carry out
their local development, repair and welfare works without any external
interference, once the RWA Act will come into existence.
The AAP proposes to streamline the
functioning of RWAs in consultation with them. Kejriwal proposed the following
steps to allow smooth functioning of the RWAs :
1) There should be only be a
single RWA in a locality.
2) It should be registered.
3) It should have free and fair
elections at regular intervals as per its constitution.
4) As a part of this exercise, it is
proposed that the RWA will have a GBM of all its members on a fixed day and
time every month. All important decisions shall be taken in the GBM by the
residents. RWA shall be responsible for subsequently implementing those
decisions.
5) The accounts of RWA shall be
transparent and available for public inspection. They shall be annually audited
and presented to the GBM. There shall be social audit of accounts at regular
intervals...........
Kejriwal said the AAP stand was that there should be no scope for any external
interference, including that of the MP or MLA, in the works that recognised
RWAs can do with public consultation in their respective
areas......................
Once you won the elections with an absolute majority, we had
high hopes, but not yet heard anything about those big promises made by you. Therefore,
now, before the MCD elections, we would like to
ask as below :
1. What happened to the RWA Act, giving a legal
sanctity to the RWAs by passing it in the state assembly ?
2. What happened to your promises of Empowerment of RWAs ?
3. Instead of streamlining the functioning of RWAs, why
your party started neglecting the RWAs and tilted towards the Mohalla Sabha ?
Looking forward for your valued response, with a
hope, that you will not force us to believe, that you had made the fake promises with us.
With Best regards,
B S Vohra
President,
East Delhi RWAs Joint Front ( Federation )
CC to MEDIA
