Thursday, April 13, 2017
SC order a shot in arm for RWAs
Supreme Court order to shut down a mobile phone tower in Gwalior on a plea filed by a 42-year old domestic help has heated up the debate about the supposed harmful radiations emitted by them. The petition had claimed that radiation from the illegal tower installed on a neighbour's rooftop in 2002 had affected him adversely in the past 14 years.
The SC order has given a shot in the arm to the campaigns of many Residents' Welfare Associations (RWAs) in Delhi who have been opposing these structures for years.
Dr Kapil Kakkar, RWA president of Jangpura Extension, said that he has filed several complaints with the municipal corporation about installation of mobile phone towers in residential areas. Many residents have now asked him to take up the issue strongly, especially after the SC verdict.
A guesthouse in our area has a mobile tower for the past 15 years. Residents living nearby are suffering from cancer because of it. Even the guesthouse owner and his mother are suffering from the ailment, but he is unable to remove the tower as the clauses in the agreement cannot be violated," said Kakkar.
The East Delhi RWA president, BS Vohra, took the campaign against mobile towers a step further by checking the radiation emanating from them. "But the companies reduced the frequency that day and we couldn't get a clear reading," he claimed.
Requesting the government to act strongly, Vohra said that mobile companies "have a strong lobby and they get away despite knowing that radiation from these towers could be harmful.
RWA president of Mayur Vihar-I Pocket-III, Om Aggarwal believes that the SC judgment will increase the sense of responsibility of telecom companies. However, East of Kailash RWA president, Wing Commander JS Chadda, believes that since many experts say the towers cause no harm, "there is no basis for us to go about protesting against their presence in our areas.
We started a movement to remove the towers, but stopped as government reports suggested that they have no detrimental effects," Chadda said.
Rajiv Kakria, RWA President of GK-I, has a different take. "Residential areas shouldn't put up these towers as they are aesthetically not pleasant and there's always a chance of them falling down during storms. " He has asked telecom companies to reduce sound pollution from generators by upgrading their technology.
with thanks : TOI : LINK
Wednesday, April 12, 2017
Timely exposure to what effect !
Timely exposure to what effect! All parties make such announcements to get votes but once they occupy position, they forget such promises and remain silent till the next elections as they think that there is nobody, unlike you, could remember and take them to the task and expose them! In fact it is a very sad state of affairs that money and freebies lure the public at large and seek their votes!
With regards,
TK Balu
Tuesday, April 11, 2017
Monday, April 10, 2017
Mr Arvind Kejriwal - what happened to the RWAs Empowerment Vision plan ?
Mr Arvind Kejriwal, CM, Delhi
Mr Manish Sisodia, Dy CM, Delhi
Dear Sir,
In a meeting with the RWAs of Delhi Delhi
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
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
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,
CC to MEDIA
Saturday, April 8, 2017
Shunglu committee report shows Arvind Kejriwal treats his personal discretion as law in Delhi
A voluminous VK Shunglu Committee report is yet another reminder that for Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, rule of law means that his personal discretion is law in Delhi. The perks of power, government positions, sanctioned or otherwise and any associated benefits were to be offered to the chosen beneficiaries at whims to relatives of ministers and personal favourites of party lords, in total disregard to laid out structures and norms.
He could still brazen it out, he and his party colleagues could still lecture on morality, public probity and integrity, claiming that everyone else in varied social structure and polity except for those associated with their party AAP had some taint to hide.
Unfortunately for him, a well documented Shunglu committee report along with annexure, which came to conclusions after examining 404 files and discussions with key officials including chief secretary and principal secretaries of departments concerned, has exposed Kejriwal's hypocritical probity stance in public life.
More so, this official expose comes at a time when Kejriwal is already facing the heat of another finding and subsequent directive by Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal asking Delhi Chief Secretary to initiate process of recovery of Rs 97 crore by Arvind Kejriwal-led ruling Aam Admi Party for a series of advertisements which Kejriwal, as chief minister, issued in violation of Supreme Court directive. As per L-G's directive, Delhi government (Kejriwal) has to recover this huge amount from AAP (Kejriwal) in 30 days' time, of which one week has already elapsed.
The L-G's order was not whimsical. It was based on findings of the Supreme Court-mandated Committee on Content Regulation of Government Advertising (CCRGA), constituted by Information and Broadcasting ministry.
Another revelation is that Kejriwal insisted that Ram Jethmalani must bill for defending him in defamation case filed against him by finance minister Arun Jaitley. And on his instructions, Delhi government cleared the payment file at a super-fast speed without due approval from L-G, which badly tarnished his image.
Shunglu committee findings reveal that Kejriwal government is hit with a malice of the worst kind for any government: Nepotism, favouritism and cronyism. It goes on listing instances after instances where norms were flouted, laid out official channels bypassed, not just the L-G who is administrative head of Delhi government but also the departments like law and finance, which were otherwise required to give approval on files in most cases.
Take for instance appointment of health minister Satyendra Jain's daughter Soumya Jain as as adviser to mission director, Delhi State Mission. Soumya had a degree in architecture and didn't have any supportive documents to her claim for expertise on mohalla clinics. The file also does not have any mention as to who approved her appointment. Despite that, she was appointed to the post. An expenditure of Rs 1.15 lakh was also incurred between the date of her joining and the date she resigned from the post. Shunglu committee noted "these events could only be explained by the fact that Soumya Jain is the daughter of Satyendar Jain, health minister and Chairman of Delhi state health mission and of society registered for executing projects."
Another case of nepotism relates to appointment of Nikunj Agarwal, said to be a relative of Kejriwal, as OSD to the health minister. "Dr Agarwal is appointed as senior resident on an ad hoc basis on his mere application by the resident medical officer of CNBC hospital, when there was no vacancy in that hospital and the established procedure is to invite applications through advertisements and effect selections after interviews by a panel of expert," the committee report said.
with thanks : FirstPost : LINK : for detailed news report.
Must go through in the wake of MCD Elections in Delhi.
Must go through in the wake of MCD Elections in Delhi.
Friday, April 7, 2017
MCD Election Issue
Dear S. Vohra ji,
An excellent, informative and enlightening article on the state of affairs of the MCDs! Your contribution for bringing out such an illuminating article for all to read is immense and timely! Can we still learn a lesson or two to improve the working/functioning of the MCDs? Difficult to assess! We wonder what would be outcome of the MCD elections! If no party gets the majority and get sufficient sinews to fight with the local govt. it may be difficult to achieve anything and the people at large will suffer, while the newly elected Councillors will prosper and build up their image enlivening the pitiable plight of the people. Task is enormous but a planned and phased implementation of reforms/changes in all spheres will bring about the desirable impact, different from the past, to applaud and appreciate! Let's look forward for a brighter future in all circles to build up the image of the Capital at large with the assistance of all - sab ke saath, sab ke vikas!
With best regards,
TK Balu/Anand Vihar
MCD ELECTION ISSUE
Sir
the biggest issue is lifting of garbage and disposal. The Best way provide sufficient No of Dust Bin to each RWA. Handover the Work to Private agencies under strict govt control. Ask them to prepare Vermi compost and Distribute the Same to RWA at Reasonable rate. There will be more Cleanness in Delhi
Chander Mohan
Navrachna Appartment
Vinod Khanna's picture from the hospital goes viral
Vinod Khanna was recently admitted to the hospital after the dashing actor was reported to be suffering from severe dehydration. However, later reports even claimed that the yester year superstar is battling bladder cancer. While the family has not confirmed the news, a picture of the actor in the hospital has gone viral. Vinod looks quite pale in the picture and his physical transformation has literally shocked the entire nation.
Wishes have started pouring from all the corners as the nation prays for his speedy recovery. A leading daily quoted a hospital official saying that the actor is currently stable and is getting better. Vinod Khanna was admitted to a suburban Mumbai hospital last Friday. While the hospital refused to give out much details, commenting on his father’s health, son Rahul Khanna had said that the actor is suffering from severe dehydration. “Dad was hospitalized on Friday for severe dehydration.
with thanks : Yahoo News : LINK : for more details
Wednesday, April 5, 2017
RWAs : Do you have any issues related to the MCD Elections in Delhi ?
RWAs : If you have any issues related to the MCD Elections in Delhi, please feel free to mail us with complete details for uploading on the RWABhagidari Blog.
Thanks,
B S Vohra
rwabhagidari@yahoo.in
rwabhagidari@yahoo.in
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