FIR's ?

Dear Mr. Vohra ji,

 

We must first compliment you on giving us updated information on all fronts. The step proposed to be taken will be revolutionary but (this is a big question) will the Police do it! Notwithstanding, what about Police reluctant to file a FIR when you go to the Police station! I will tell you what happened with us yesterday.

 

We are making serious efforts to make our colony protected from all sides by provision of gates in the service lanes and constructing a wall on the outer border of the colony spending a huge amount of the residents for their benefit to ensure their safety and security of their property and lives. In this exercise we had installed a gate in one of the service lanes, which is exposed to entry of miscreants. This was done on 5th instant and some miscreants broke the entire thing on 6th night in odd hours. When we came to know on 7th morning i.e. yesterday, the managing committee of the society met at an emergent meeting and decided unanimously to file a FIR on the matter and proceeded in one lot all members of the MC and reached the Police Station in the afternoon at 3.45 p.m. Having not found the SHO, who was on leave, we reported to the duty clerk at the P.S. to file a FIR but was reluctant and contacted all his superiors to avoid filing the FIR but ultimately despite our best efforts we could not do it but registered a 'complaint' only! Can you tolerate it? This is what is happening in Police Stations who make all efforts to avoid filing a FIR, so that they will not be accountable for complaints but FIR only!  How can you overcome such situations? This is a matter of serious concern to be pondered over and remedial action to be taken!  Why people that too a registered society is refused to file a FIR, when it is their fundamental right!

 

TK Balu

Secretary/RBECHS/ANAND VIHAR

Missing MCD files of unauthorised buildings

At least we the persons living in EAST DELHI ARE NOT STUNNED OR SURPRISED by the loss of MCD UNAUTHIRISED CONSTRUCTION FILES.

IT IS NOW FOR US THE SUFFERES TO COMPEL MCD FOR FAST ACTION .

KK GHEI

Put All New FIRs Online: Delhi HC

In a major move towards transparency in police functioning, the high court has directed the Delhi Police to start uploading all First Information Reports (FIRs) registered in the city onto its website within 24 hours of filing. The police are required to implement the order from February 1, 2011.

The landmark order, passed by a division bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Manmohan, said it's the duty of the police to provide information and the accused does not need to move court to get a copy of an FIR. 

"Fair and impartial investigation is a facet of Article 21 of the Constitution and presumption as regards the innocence of an accused is a right. Therefore, a person booked under criminal law has a right to know the nature of allegations so that he can take necessary steps to safeguard his liberty," the bench said.

Earlier, additional solicitor general A S Chandiok and amicus curie Arvind Nigam submitted their suggestions on the matter.

The counsel had said that recording of an FIR was an official act of a public official in discharge of his or her official duties and, therefore, it was a public document within the meaning of Section 74 of the Evidence Act, 1872.

with thanks : times of india ; link in headline above for details.

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To Fill Its Coffers, MCD Mulls Higher Property Tax Rates

Get ready to shell out more money from next year, as the MCD is planning to increase the property tax rates. Sources say, the cash-strapped Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) is planning to hike property tax to generate more revenue to fund its projects. Currently, the entire MCD area has been divided into eight categories A to H, wherein category A stands for upscale colonies such as New Friends Colony, Vasant Vihar among others.

 

However, sources say, as per the proposal, to be tabled in the budget meeting on Wednesday, the entire MCD area will be divided into two categories as far as tax rate is concerned wherein categories A, B, C, D, and E will be clubbed together and will pay 15% property tax while categories F, G, H will be charged 10%.

Presently category A and B are charged 12%, C, D and E are charged 11% and F, G and H are charged 7%.

"The MCD's financial position is not very sound and property tax is a major source of revenue for the MCD. Even last year, the rates we had suggested were reduced by the legislative wing. We hope this year they will accept it," said a senior MCD official.

The proposal will only be accepted after the MCD's standing committee clears it. "The commissioner will propose a number of taxes including property tax. We will examine them and take a decision. We are not in favour of including property tax and burdening people. We would rather get more people in the tax net," said Yogender Chandolia, MCD standing committee chairman.

This year, too, the civic body had increased tax rates. According to the civic agency, its property tax collection has been going down every year.

The civic agency has been trying to bring more people into the ambit of tax collection to increase collections and has been conducting a survey to identify property owners who have not made payments. Besides this, they have offered rebate in additional interest and penalty to encourage taxpayers to pay arrears.

with thanks : hindustan times : link in headline above for detailed news.

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Shame the corrupt with Rs 0 !

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No Proposal To Allot CWG Flats To VIPs: DDA

Delhi's housing agency has denied any proposal to allot Commonwealth Games (CWG) Village flats to politicians, bureaucrats and police officers, a Right to Information (RTI) query revealed on Monday.

 

RTI activist Subhash Agrawal had sought details from the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) on whether it planned to make any privilege allotment to VIPs.

DDA in its reply Dec 1 said "no such information is available in this office (DDA)". 

There are 1,168 flats - 31 two-bedroom, 765 three-bedroom, 209 four-bedroom and 163 five-bedroom ones - at the CWG Village near Akshardham in east Delhi, DDA said in its reply. 

Of these, DDA can sell 711 flats while the remaining 790 will be sold by private developer Emaar-MGF. 

There have been reports in the media that the DDA is planning to give the majority of CWG flats to senior officials.

with thanks : economic times : link in the headline for detailed news.

MCD (Unauthorized Construction) Building Files Go Missing

The latest episode in the saga of MCD's inaction in case of unauthorized construction is of missing files.

Records of buildings regularized by a tainted junior engineer in Shahdara (south) zone are not available with the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, according to senior MCD officials. The officials claimed that as many as 50 buildings were regularized by this official, some of them after termination orders were issued against him.

``The records of buildings regularized by former junior engineer (building), Shahdara (south) zone, Manoj Shah, and other officials from June to October are missing. The zonal office is trying to locate the records now. Since people paid a deposit for regularization, it should not be difficult to track down properties which were regularized during this period,'' said standing committee chairman, Yogender Chandolia.

Manoj Shah had been hired on contractual basis by MCD. ``Several complaints were received against Manoj Shah on the basis of which he was disengaged from his contractual services,'' added Chandolia. Even as the process of terminating him from duty began in August, he continued to work till September and regularized several buildings during this period also, according to sources.

When MCD was questioned about these allegations, MCD commissioner K S Mehra said that the civic agency was ``investigating the matter.'' All these matters came to light after the house collapse in Lalita Park several weeks ago. This incident claimed at least 70 lives. The civic agency is yet to submit its inquiry report on the collapse and has not initiated any action against officials in relation to the collapse. It has, however,started demolishing and sealing illegal properties all over Delhi.

‘‘The areas where buildings were regularized during this period include Preet Vihar, Laxmi Nagar, Yojna Vihar, Krishna Nagar, P D Vihar, etc. We will now have to check if all rules and regulations were followed when these buildings were regularized by these officials,’’ said an official. 

 

with thanks : hindustan times : link in headline above for detailed news.

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93 mn Slum Dwellers Likely By 2011: Govt

Despite the country's robust economic growth, the number of people living in slums is likely to cross 93 million by 2011, marking an increase of around 23 per cent since 2001. 

A committee set up by Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation has projected this figure, the Rajya Sabha was informed today. 

The main reasons for increase in slum population are influx of a large number of workers to cities without commensurate job opportunities and non-availability of housing and basic amenities, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Minister Kumari Selja said in a written reply. 

She cited high cost of living, housing, transport and education and inadequate provision of land for housing as some other reasons for increase in slum population. 

Selja said her ministry has begun the process for formulation of a new scheme for providing support to states that are willing to provide property rights to slum dwellers.

with thanks : ECONOMIC TIMES : link in headline above for detailed news.

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CONSTRUCTED ILLEGALLY ADJACENT TO G BLOCK HARI NAGAR BUS STOP AT JAIL ROAD.

DESPITE OF HEAVY DEATH TOLL IN EAST DELHI, DEPUTY COMMR(WEST), MCD, IS KEEPING QUITE ON SEVERAL COMPLAINTS LODGED WITH HIM THROUGH EMAILS, FAXES, LETTERS SENT BY POST AS ALSO THROUGH MCD CENTRAL AND WEST DELHI CONTROL ROOMS. 

A PUCCA FOOD OUTLET WITH THE NAME, 'MASALA MASTERS' HAS RECENTLY BEEN CONSTRUCTED ILLEGALLY ADJACENT TO G BLOCK HARI NAGAR BUS STOP AT JAIL ROAD. BRPL HAS ALSO BEEN KIND ENOUGH TO GIVE THIS OUTLET AN ILLEGAL POWER CONNECTION TO RUN COMMERCIAL REFRIGERATORS. HUGE PANDAL HAS ALSO BEEN ERRECTED BEHIND THIS PUCCA OUTLET WHICH ENCROACHES NOT ONLY JAIL ROAD WHICH HAS 45 METERS RIGHT OF WAY (WIDTH) AS INFORMED BY CHIEF TOWN PLANNER, MCD, BUT IS ALSO ON A PIECE OF LAND EARMARKED FOR CENTRAL PARK FOR THE RESIDENTS BY NONE ELSE BUT APEX COURT IN 2001 FOLLOWED BY MCD STANDING COMMITTEE RESOLUTION NO.182 PASSED IN 2002. 

OUR ASSOCIATION IS NOT AWARE, WHICH POLITICAL PARTY IS GIVING PATRONAGE TO THIS FOOD OUTLET AS THE MCD COUNCILOR AS ALSO MLA BELONG TO BJP. COMPLAINTS SENT TO LT. GOVERNOR, CVO, MCD, CVC, GOI, COMMISSIONER, MCD, AS ALSO TO DEPUTY COMMISSIONER(WEST DELHI), DELHI POLICE REMAIN UNATTENDED AS NEITHER THESE ARE ACKNOWLEDGED NOR ANY ACTION IS TAKEN ON ILLEGAL CONSTRUCTIONS AND ENCROACHMENTS IN THE AREA. WEST DELHI MP, SHRI MAHABAL MISHRA, HAS ALSO SENT A LETTER IN THE MATTER TO COMMISSIONER, MCD. LET US SEE IF THIS RESULTS IN SOME ACTION AT HIS END.

TPS OBEROI,
VICE-PRESIDENT,
WELFARE ASSOCIATION
G BLOCK HARI NAGAR,
NEW DELH-110058

Trade Fair Venue may go to Gurgaon ?

Now it's the turn of Trade Fair Venue - The Pride of Delhi - The Pragati Maidan. It may shift to Gurgaon by 2014. Earlier the famous Appu Ghar was closed & shifted from Delhi.  Earlier prestigious Industrial Exhibitions such as IMTEX  clubbed with AUTO EXPO was permanently shifted out of Delhi. Even earlier thousands of Industries were sealed & forced to Shift out of Delhi.

Do you think that this is the only way to DE-CONGEST Delhi ?

Don't you think that all these are causing massive revenue losses to Delhi state ?

Don't you think that soon we will loose the charm of being Delhiites as every prestigious thing that belongs to Delhi,  will soon be found out of Delhi ?

Comments on postings :

Dear Mr. Vohra ji,

 

It is a pity that the MCD engineers permit construction of illegal floors by taking bribe and as and when they are identified by the same engineers or their colleagues when they get a 'danda' from the top, they start demolishing them! It is strange and debatable. Why not ask the builder to disclose how much money he has paid illegally to the MCD officials and disclose their names and they should be removed from service instantaneously and go into the matter later! This will only will have salutary effect. It is shocking that even in our democracy we always require a 'danda' from the top to act upon. What difference it makes when we were under alien rule and now in our own Raj! 

 

In this context we have brought to notice the 'builders menace' taking place in Anand Vihar to the DC and other officials in all our communications and taken up the matter with the FIEIIGHS (Federation) as well but no response at all. But one fine morning any mishap happens, the authorities will wake up and demonstrate their action for some time and then go in slumber. Is there no rule of law or ethics for all this. All this happens only because of 'corruption to the core' right from the bottom level which has to be arrested by all means in Govt.'s command. NOW AT LEAST ARISE, AWAKE AND STOP NOT TILL ALL THE ILLEGAL BUILDINGS ARE ERACED TO THE GROUND; BUILDERS AND OFFICIALS CONCERNED PUT BEHIND BARS, PENDING ENQUIRIES, AND PUBLISH THEIR PHOTOS ETC TO LET THE PUBLIC KNOW! CAN WE DO IT?

TK Balu
Secretary/RBECHS/Anand Vihar