Vans to sell veggies at cheaper rates : HT

RWAs - Please mail us for forwarding to the concerned dept., if you require vans in your locality. 
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LG Flagged the sale of Vegetables through RWAs

Vishwakarma nagar : HT Live East

Happy Friendship Day !

Onion & Potato for Direct sales through RWAs !

Today we got 4 vehicles containing Nasik Onions. These vehicles covered various areas of Krishna nagar. Monday / Tuesday onwards we are expecting over 25 to 30 such vehicles at various RWA names forwarded by us. Today, the Nasik onion was sold by them at Rs 30 /- per kg, while the Price of SAFAL is 35 /- The quality seemed best. RWAs can expect Potato as well Tomato also in the coming days.

RWA भी चाहती हैं पार्कों से दूर रहें पेट्स : NBT

PARKING PROBLEM IN COLONIES

Parking, in fact, is a serious problem. Every day you see some news or the other about fight over parking in different areas. One more reason for lack of parking space is conversion of single storey houses in to four-storey buildings, meaning four families in place of one or 8-10 cars in place of 2. The problem is compounded when the stilt parking in these multi-storey buildings is illegally used for commercial purposes and the cars are parked on the road.  It is high time, government/MCD has to formulate a policy to tackle this problem and then strictly implement it.

R. N. Gupta

Priyadarshini Vihar RWA 

Solution to the parking problem

Dear Mr. Vohra ji, My immediate reaction and solution to the parking problem is as follows based on my experience in our (Anand Vihar) colony. - Identify in each block/area vacant spaces like nursery plots, parks/tot lots etc. for conversion into parking lots where the compound walls can be raised, high mast light installed, gates are provided and secured with a chowkidar who could look after the vehicles day/night and clean them also and thereby earn his livelihood from the charges (of course it has to be nominal on a monthly basis) recovered who park their vehicles based on the numbers and type of vehicles; -kitchen gardens and encroachments in front of the houses to be demolished to make space for parking of vehicles; -service lanes where provided have to be gated on both sides and vehicles of owners of the houses at the back of service lanes could profitably be used by adjustments where found necessary. -All residents who have parking space (stilt parking area) below their flats should be forced to park their vehicles when they are no longer required -identify the places for parking duly marked in front of markets, like Vikas Marg etc. for parking of vehicles who come to shopping in those areas; Hospitals/Schools etc. should identify the spaces for parking of the vehicles of visitors etc. failing which no permission should be granted to do their business. As and when they are established parking area should be made compulsory as an integral part of building sanction by the authorities concerned. Roads etc. should be widened and wherever obstacles are found they have to be removed by the authorities concerned. All the above require a coordinated approach by the Police/MCD and such other authorities to identify and take further course of action. As a long term measure, the authorities concerned have to get constructed underground parking space below the parks, nursery plots etc. inside the colonies. Registration of vehicles should be restricted like in many countries i.e. Singapore, Japan etc. Public transport like EMUs (Railways)/bus/metro should be encouraged and planned out in phases so that vehicular traffic on roads could get reduced considerably. With deep regards, TK Balu/Anand Vihar

Meeting for Direct supply of Onion & Potato to RWAs of Delhi

On behalf of Delhi Government, SFAC is arranging for the supply of Onion and Potato, directly from Farmer Producer Organization (FPO), for sale to consumers at the RWAs. 

In this context, SFAC is organizing a meeting of the prominent RWA's of Delhi for supply of Onion and Potato through Mobile Vans. You are requested to please communicate your contact number / contact details so that we can inform you about the date & timings of the meeting. 

Please revert with your mail to : rwabhagidari@yahoo.in

No Parking policy : Hindustan Times

10% of city eaten up by car spaces : Times of India

NEW DELHI: Finding parking space in Delhi is like a treasure hunt. The growing number of cars has led to a scramble for vacant slots and frayed nerves. Rajinder Bhatia's death in west Patel Nagar underlines a larger issue and a crime pattern that needs a closer look. According to a study by the Centre for Science and Environment, parking takes up nearly 10% of the city's space, just 1% less than the green cover. Delhi has 82 lakh registered vehicles and the addition of cars, many of them superfluous, will only compound parking problems in future.

With the lanes in residential areas always packed, fights have become routine. Ambulances, police vehicles and fire tenders often get stuck. "The area needed for parking vehicles is now double of what is taken up by slums in Delhi. The social inequity, shrinking of common areas and unhealthy environment will only get worse," said Anumita Roychoudhary, executive director, CSE.

To tackle this problem, some RWAs have restricted entry of cars, others have proposed parking lots beneath the parks. Many are using colony parks and vacant plots to squeeze in their cars. "There is no policy to curb purchase of cars.

Anyone can buy any number of cars without showing parking space. There is no policy," said Manjeet Singh of South Extension part-I RWA.

Another reason for the mess is the commercialization of residential roads. Banks, nursing homes, gym and departmental stores are essential but daily fights over parking outside houses are also taking their toll. Deflating tyres, towing and damaging cars has become common in such colonies

Since 2005 civic agencies have been collecting conversion charges from these areas. They had to provide parking facilities from this money.

"Not a single parking lot has come up. Where has the money gone?" said Rajiv Kakria of GK-I RWA. Of the 41 parking lots planned by the corporations since 2007, only three have been completed. Vasant Vihar residents' proposal for a parking lot beneath a park was shot down.

Unauthorized colonies as well as congested areas like Karol Bagh and Walled City are worse off. "The lanes are so narrow but people keep buying cars.

We need a policy or more people will be killed over parking rows," said B S Vohra of East Delhi RWAs Joint Front. Experts had suggested charges for street parking but political pressure put them in cold storage. "Public transport needs to improve to reduce reliance on cars," said Ashok Bhasin of North Delhi Residents Welfare Forum.

Quoting Tom Vanderbilt, author of Traffic, "Why we drive the way we do, equates with jungle laws", Roychoudhary summed it up pithily: "Humans hunt for parking the way animals hunt for food."

with thanks : Times of India : LINK