Colony Gates

Dear Sir,

 

It is high time that we should once for all decide the matter relating to provision of colony gates in the present alarming situation of safety and security of residents of Delhi. There are three type of gates - gates on the service lanes at the back of the residents houses; inner roads of the colony and the roads in the colony leading to main roads or exposed to main roads from the residents/visitors etc. could enter the colony. While the roads of the colony exposed to main roads are normally not less than 45 ft. the inner roads vary from 30 to 45 ft. while the service lanes are of 15 ft. all in width. In our colony, all the foresaid roads exist. Besides there is one 80 ft. road running through the colony connecting other neighbourhood colonies.

 

MCD have of course prescribed guidelines for provision of internal gates and they should also consider and revise where the situation demands the size of the gates depending on the lay-out plan approved by them or DDA. The conditions prescribed by them should not be considered as sacrosanct but should be flexible depending the lay-out plan of the colony. If the Police authorities cannot ensure safety and security of residents within their capacity, the RWAs have per force to make necessary arrangements which they think is in the best interest of the people residing in the colony and no powers on the earth should pose impediments unless the such authorities concerned take the sole and whole responsibility of the safety and security of the residents of the colony and should not pass on the buck to other authorities/agencies etc.

 

Of late it is found that the MCD instead of doing any 'productive' work and ensure that what is required to be done by them in maintenance of the colony etc. harrass the residents and RWAs in such vital things to be done. They are unable to punish people who encroach upon public land, demolish unauthorised buildings and maintain roads and lanes in a good condition, ensure sanitary conditions of the colony and markets inside the colony but on the contrary pose themselves as the custodian of the entire area and create misery and problems etc. to the law-abiding citizens! Can't we stop this with all the force at our command?!  Let the joint front take action against this and let's join to solve the problems!

TK Balu
Secretary/RBECHS/Anand Vihar

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B S Vohra

Jangpura residents seek HC help to clear encroachments

NEW DELHI: Buoyed by the Delhi High Court backed crackdown on traders encroaching public space in Defence Colony area, residents of nearby Jungpura Extension have sought similar relief from HC.

Justice G S Sistani on Tuesday allowed Jungpura RWA to become a party to the original contempt plea he is hearing, filed by the Defence Colony Flyover Association and asked the MCD along with DCP traffic to consider the complaint of the RWA.

In its petition seeking to become a party to the case, the Jungpura residents alleged that despite repeated representations to the police and other civic agencies like DDA/MCD, illegal parking of trucks, taxis and encroachment by shops continues. As per the petition, the main culprit causing traffic congestion in the locality is one 'Rama Tent House' whose business activities throughout the day and also in night trouble residents.

"The association is concerned with the smooth flow of traffic and wants to ensure that footpath for pedestrians around roads here remains available," the RWA says, informing HC that widespread encroachment of public spaces by shopkeepers, traders has led to traffic snarls.

With thanks : Times of India : link above for more details.

Sahyog Welfare Association, West Patel Nagar : colony gates

Dear Mr. Vohra,

This is Mahesh Kumar Sharma, President, Sahyog Welfare Association, West Patel Nagar. Wanted to discuss an issue with you regarding colony gates. For the last 1yr MCD has demolished two of our colony gates. As per the standing order of MCD, the width of the gates should not be less than 5mts, while our gates are 4.5 mts in size, and the width of the street is 4.5mts as per the master plan.

We have got the stay order for rest six gates in the colony. Now we have got permission from the Joint director Traffic Police, local area ACP, and Fire brigade authorities. But still according to the MSD standing order our hands are tied and we cant go ahead with the installation of the gates due to size constraints. Need your guidance on the issue, as the size of the street according to the master plan is 4.5mts then how can we increase it to 5 mts? And these are all exit gates, and dont harm any traffic movement in any way.Kindly guide as to what should be our plan of action and who all we should approach in order to solve the issue.

Looking forward to your reply
Mahesh Sharma

Our responsibilities and responses of administration

In one post MR.Balu has lamented about non responsive culture of present day ADMINISTRATORS.
There cannot be a better example than the action or response of authorities on several issues raised through this blog. To name a few, we had expressed concern regarding loss of revenue because mobile phone services towers have been allowed to exist without any permission or collection of charges from service providers.
The second issue is about NON COLLECTION OF PROPERTY TAX FROM ALL OVER DELHI.
The shops are functiong even in area like PREET VIHAR AND MADHUVAN where one shop haas been divided to create three shops. And even parking area just near PREET VIHAR(NOW MADHUVAN) POLICE STATION HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO BE PARKING PLACE FOR BUSES AND TEMPOS. It is nobody's headache whether they pay monthly charges to MCD OR NOT.
These issues have been quoted by way of examples only.
I remember, the instructions of departments to acknowledge each and every communication.
But what is happening is known to all of us.
Now question is....WHAT OUR EAST DELHI RWAS JOINT FRONT CAN DO.
Perhaps for this we have to meet and discuss.
I offer my place at any time or day for this activities.
It is high time we review our first meeting decisions.

KK GHEI
SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT EDRWASJF

Secret of Happiness...........

Reconstruct Demolished Shelters In 3 Days: SC To DDA

No Night Shelters In The Country Should Be Demolished In Winter, Rules Apex Court

A photograph in TOI of two children spending a cold night under the open sky made the Supreme Court on Thursday lash out at Delhi Development Authority (DDA) for its apathy and order reconstruction of two night shelters within three days.

PICTURE THAT MELTED HEARTS:As it delivered the order, Supreme Court pointed talked about this photograph that TOI printed on Thursday. The photograph shows two children spending the night in biting cold out on a road  

"We do not want to see such photographs again," said a Bench comprising Justices Dalveer Bhandari and Deepak Verma. To drive the point about the super-seriousness of the apex court home, the Bench made vice-chairman of DDA personally responsible for reconstruction of the night shelters at the places where they were demolished. 

With anguish, it remembered a similar insensitive attitude of the Delhi government and the Centre last year resulting in many deaths during cold wave conditions which had forced the SC to step in to the rescue of homeless poor. In fact, the agency photograph that TOI carried had been taken in January this year and was intended to make the point that despite many judicial interventions, the agencies remained indifferent and callous. 

The Bench said it would not brook repetition of such unfortunate incidents this year and referred to the news reports published in TOI about demolition of night shelters at Nehru Place and Kalkaji. It said "this indeed is a matter of great anguish, disappointment and astonishment." 

with thanks : Times of India : link above for detailed news.

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RTI & RWAs !

Dear Mr. Vohra ji,

 

Let's have a debate/discussion on the RTI as applicable to the RWAs. The provision made in the DCS Act and Rules are of course applicable to us but not the RTI Act-2005 as such. This is a misnomer. Hence the miscreants in the Societies try to take advantage of the present state of affairs and create problems even for genuine societies, like ours, which we have taken up with the Registrar Cooperative Societies but no response so far. Similarly, there are yet a lot of issues to be thrashed out with them. Hence may I suggest for your consideration to arrange to convene a 'workshop' whereat the officials of the RCS as well as the important office-bearers could be invited to thrash out all loop-holes in the rules and act and avoid worthless correspondence and litigation and thereby save considerable precious time, energy and money of the RWAs etc.

 

Delhi East front should no doubt take such 'common issues' with the authorities concerned which will be useful for the smooth and effective functioning of the Societies and in the over all interest and progress of the residents' welfare!

 

Awaiting your response and with best wishes,

TK Balu

Secretary/RBECHS/Anand Vihar

MCD on FACEBOOK !

Dear Mr. Vohra ji,

 

It is a welcome feature that MCD will create a Facebook to book our grievances. However, all societies and people have to be educated as to how the 'facebook' is operated and how they could lodge a complaint! Secondly, the Hon.Lt. Governor and Hon.CM also created such 'grievances cell' in their offices and got a lot of publicity through the media but you will be appalled to know that their response is very poor! Pardon me to say so. I am expressing my opinion on this from my own experience. I had addressed all the common problems of our Society to both the foresaid VVIPs but till date no response. Their officials only do the 'post office' work i.e. forward the complaints to the officials concerned but there is no follow up from their side nor do they endorse a copy to the petitioner concerned i.e. in our case the Society itself.  What for are they doing all the 'cosmetic' dress-up and fool the aam admi!?

 

In this context I can quote with authority that during the tenure of Maharaja Scindia, when he was a railway minister at the centre, every complaint had to be attended to and replied within a fortnight and all such things were being monitored by his dedicated officials to apprise him of the position. Moreover, whenever railway officials go on tour (duty) or on leave and travel by train, it is compulsory for them to interact with the travelling passengers in the trains they are travelling and send a report on their return to the Minister's cell at Rail Bhavan and they too are monitored and necessary remedial action is taken. No doubt the tenure of his 'raj' is still considered as the 'golden era' of the Indian Railways and considerable improvements were effected. ALAS WHERE IS THE SYSTEM NOW!

 

In view of the above, let us hope and wish and pray that the pioneer attempts proposed to be made by the MCD, which will no doubt certainly improve the present situation, provided the officials at the higher level of the MCD mean 'business' and do their work religiously and faithfully, without fear or favourtisim! LET'S WAIT AND WATCH WHICH WILL BE KNOWN WITHIN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME AFTER IT IS LAUNCHED WITH ALL FANFARE AND TRUMPHER AND PUBLICITY IN THE MEDIA!

 

Meanwhile let us be educated on the operation of the system for the benefit of all. You could do it at your level which will be useful to all the RWAs etc.

 

TK Balu

Secretary/RBECHS/Anand Vihar

Illegal Water Packaging plant.

Ramakrishna Vihar Social Welfare Society (Regd)

M-134,Ramakrishna Vihar Aptmts, 29, Patparganj, IP EXtn, Delhi-110092.

Phone No.-9968656377/9810017316/9899221580,email-rsws29@hotmail.com

REMINDER

SDM (Preet Vihar)                                                                  Dt. 21^st October, 2010

L.M Bandh , Shastri Nagar

Pushta , Geeta Colony,

Delhi.

Sub:- Grievance No. 90917000006 to Delhi Admn thru their web portal.

Sir,

Enclosed please find a copy of above mentioned Grievance sent to Delhi Administration through their web portal by Shri. J.K.Gehlawat (who is now General secretary of the Managing Committee of Retired & Retiring Govt. Emp. CGHS, 29, Patparagnj, I.P.extn, Delhi-92) which is self explanatory. Reply received from Delhi administration (for necessary action at your end) on the issue is also highlighted for your reference.

Till date no reply has been received from your good offices regarding the same.We, request you to kindly note that the RO plant in question –

1. Doesn’t have any ISI/BIS mark certification for quality thereby posing a risk to the resident’s health
2. Doesn’t have any provision for sterilizing the Jars received back from the residents.
3. Doesn’t have any quality check mechanism.
4. Doesn’t sell packaged water jars with MRP labels etc.
5. Is not approved by any dept. of Govt of NCT of Delhi/Industry.
6. Sells water @ Rs.16/- per Jar of 20 Ltrs.
7. Wastes lots of precious water and doesn’t account for any Govt. revenue etc. like excise and sales tax.

Through this letter, we would like you to kindly interfere and order closure of the same.

                                                                 Thanking You,

                                                                                                   Yours Faithfully,

                                                                                                         P.N.Singh

                                                                                                         (President)

cc-
DDG,Enforcement,BIS, Manak Bhavan
9 Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg
New Delhi 110 002, India – to take necessary action for closure of the above mentioned RO water/packaged drinking water plant.

Petrol gets costlier by Rs 3 per litre

New Delhi: Petrol prices are set to go up by Rs 3 per litre from Wednesday - with oil companies citing a rise in global crude prices and pointing out they are still losing money.Oil marketing majors including Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) are hiking petrol prices by almost Rs 3 per litre. New prices have already come into effect at BPCL outlets, others will follow suit from Thursday.Since the government deregulated prices in June this year, petrol prices have been on a rise. After the early November hike , Oil PSUs have once again raised petrol prices - this time by almost Rs 3 per litre, the higest hike in 6 months.

 

In Delhi, prices have gone up to Rs 55.87 per litre from Rs 52.91 earlier. In Kolkata petrol costs Rs 59. 77 now from Rs 56.81 rupees. In Mumbai and Chennai, consumers will have to shell out Rs 60.31. 

with thanks : IBN live : link above for detailed news.

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