DEAR ALL:
HERE ARE THE MINUTES OF THE MEETING HELD IN CONNECTION WITH THE U.R.J.A. CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE INCREASE OF 22% PLUS1.82% ADDITIONAL SERVICE CHARGES IN THE POWER TARIFF.
THE MEETING WAS ATTENDED BY A VERY FEW PEOPLE - JUST ABOUT 49 CITIZENS, IN ALL. THE GOOD THING WAS THAT ....THEY ALL SHOWED UP DESPITE THE HEAT AND THE HUMIDITY ON THE AFTERNOON OF THE 24SEP 2011.....THEY ALL SEEMED TO BE HIGHLY CONCERNED AND DEDICATED TO THE CAUSE OF SOCIAL NEEDS.
AMONGST THE PROMINENT CITIZENS, WE HAD THE FOLL REPRESENTATIVES OF THE VARIOUS RWAS /ORGANISATIONS... MR. ANIL AGGAARWAL, PRESIDENT/RWA-C1.. MR. RUCHIR SWAREUP, PRESIDENT/RWA-C3.. MRS. USHA BATRA , PRESIDENT /RWA-C6 & 7.. MRS. DR. SANTOSH MATTA, RWA/C8.. MR. Y. SINGH RWA/C-9.. MR. S.L. MALHOTRA, RWA B3.. MR. RAJESH MALHOTRA RWA/B-4.. MR. MAHABIR SINGH, RWA/C2.. MR. YOGSH MALHOTRA, RWA/B9.. MR. P.S. YADAV, EX-PRESIDENT, C-1.. MR. R.P. GUPTA, EX-PRESIDENT, D-2.. MR. I.P.S. SURI, EX-VICE PRESIDENT, D2.. MR. K.C. GUPTA EX-VICE PRESIDENT /RWA-C8.. MR. DEV GULATI EX-VICE PRESIDENT/RWA-C8.. MR. D.R. VERMANI, SENIOR CITIZENS CLUB- VK AND EX-VICE PRESIDENT/RWA-C8.. MR. N. KANDHARI, ARYA SAMAJ, V.KUNJ.. MR. H.C. VERMA, PANCHAYAT-MAHIPALPUR.. MR. SHYAM SUNDAR, PANCHAYAT-MAHIPALPURFROM
THE URJA CAMPAIGN, WE HAD THE HONOUR OF HAVING WITH USSHRI SANJAY KAUL, CHAIRMAN, MR. ASHUTOSH DIXIT, URJA-SECRETARY MR. ATUL GOYAL URJA-CONVENER, AND , MR. AMIT AGGARWAL, MEMBER, URJA-SENATE.THE KEY-NOTE WAS BY MR. SANJAY KAUL WHO SEEMED HIGHLY DISAPPOINTED WITH THE CITIZENS OF VASANT KUNJ, JUST AS THE CITIZENS OF GREATER KAILASH, FRIENDS COLONY, DEFENCE COLONY, AND OTHER POSH COLONIES WHO DO NOT SHOW ANY ANGUISH OR PAIN OF THIS UNJUST INCREASE IN POWER TARIFF , AND, AS A RESULT, THEIR MEETINGS ARE VERY SPARSELY ATTENDED.......ONE REASON COULD BE THAT THE PEOPLE IN SUCH COLONIES ARE ALL VERY RICH AND SIMPLY DO NOT BOTHER; OR,...IT COULD WELL BE DUE TO THE FACT THAT THE POEOPLE ARE SIMPLY TIRED OF THE SICKENING SCENARIO OF THE PRICE HIKE ALL AROUND, AND,... ALSO, TO SOME EXTENT, IT COULD BE DUE TO THE OVERALL PESSIMISM PREVAILING IN THE COUNTRY OWING TO THE CORRUPTION HURTING EACH AND EVERYONE..FEW THINGS WERE, HOWEVER, MADE CRYSTAL CLEAR BY THE U.R.J.A. SPEAKERS, AND WORTH BEING MENTIONED:1..THIS INCREASE IS NOT DUE TO INFLATIONATY TRENDS AS SEEN IN THE PRICES OF PETROL/VEGETABLE/MILK ETC.;2...THIS INCREASE IS NOTHING BUT THE FAULTY "POLICIES/AGREEMENTS" MADE WITH THE PRIVAE PARTNERS;3...THE DISCOSMS BUT BE BROUGHT UNDER THE PURVIEW OF R.T.I.,RIGHT TO INFORMATION;AND,LAST BUT NOT THE LEAST;4...THE HIKE. IF JUSTIFIED, MUT BE ALLOWED AFTER A PROPER C.A.G. ACCOUNTING, AND NOT SIMPLY BY THE "SELECTIVE AUDITING" AS PROPOSED BY THE GOVERNMENT.REASONS/SUGGESTIONS, AS OFFERED BY THE ESTEEMED U.R.J.A. SPEAKERS, WERE WELL RECEIVED BY THE AUDIENCE AND IT WAS PROMISED WITH RAISED HANDS AND HUGE ROUND OF APPLAUSE TO STRENGTHEN THE U.R.J.A. EFFORTS, IN THEIR FIGHT FOR JUSTICE AND FAIR PLAY, BY EVERYONE PRESENT THERE .
AN ALL-PARTY MEETING WAS ANNOUNCED ON THE NEXT DAY, 25SEP11, AT JANTAR MANTAR TO TAKE SUPPORT FROM EACH AND EVERY SECTION OF THE SOCIETY, AND EVERYONE WAS INVITED TO JOIN. THE MEETING CAME TO A CLOSE, AT 7PM, WITH A RESOLVE TO LET NOT THE ESTABLISHMENT / D.E.R.C./ DISCOMS FEEL THAT THEY COULD GET AWAY BY BULLYING THE CONSUMERS, AND, ASKING FOR RAISE AS PER THEIR WHIMS AND FANCIES, AND ALSO, WITH A CALL TO THE ENLIGHTENED CITIZENS NOT TO BE MISLED / DIVIDED BY THE SELFISH INTERESTS OF SOME OF THE ORGANISATIONS FLOATED AND PATRONISED BY THE ESTABLISHMENTS AND THEIR PARTNERS, INDUSTRIALISTS.
MOHAN SETHI
CONVENER
CITIZENS' FORUM-VASANT KUNJ
NEW DELHI-110070.
