with thanks : Hindustan Times
Friday, January 6, 2017
East Delhi residents say they are fed up of blame game over sanitation strike
The strike threat issued by over 17,000 sanitation workers in east Delhi has residents worried.
East Delhi was the worst hit by the previous two major strikes by the sanitation workers. Roads across east Delhi had piles of garbage dumped on them by striking workers; waste dumps overflowed and collection of garbage from homes was stopped.
Delhi generates a total of 10,000 tonnes of municipal solid waste daily of which 2,200 tonnes is generated in east Delhi alone.
“Sanitation workers have gone on multiple strikes in the recent years. The situation became so serious that the Lieutenant Governor and the Delhi High Court had to intervene. I fail to understand why the corporation has not been able to solve the issue yet,” said BS Vohra, president, east Delhi RWAs joint federation.
“After demonetisation, EDMC has collected a huge amount as revenue yet still they claim they have no money pay salaries to their staff. Why should the residents suffer for the corporation’s failure,” asked Vohra.
The workers, who threatened an indefinite strike on Thursday, are demanding their three months’ salary dues and arrears. ON all the previous occasions, payment of dues has been the main demand of the workers. With a budgetary deficit of over several thousand crores, the EDMC has survived on the support by the Delhi government and the Centre.
Residents said it is high time that the blame game between the political parties should stop and someone fix the responsibility. “I pay my property tax regularly so why should I suffer unnecessarily. Last year, garbage was not lifted from streets for two weeks. It happened in the month of October when chikungunya and malaria spread in Delhi due to unhygienic surroundings,” said AK Jha, a resident of Anand Vihar.
Mohanjeet Singh, EDMC commissioner, assured to make all necessary arrangements to ensure that residents are not harassed.
“There is no denying the fact that their salaries are pending for months but we don’t have money. We are concerned about the families of the sanitation workers and are pursuing Delhi government to issue grants. We are expecting that funds are released in a couple of days,” he said.
with thanks : Hindustan Times : LINK
Wednesday, January 4, 2017
350th Prakash Parv of Shri Guru Gobind Singh Ji.
Heartiest Gurupurab Greetings to the entire humanity on the 350th Prakash Parv of Shri Guru Gobind Singh Ji. Waheguru Waheguru Waheguru Waheguru Waheguru Waheguru Waheguru
Sunday, January 1, 2017
Friday, December 30, 2016
Irked commuters urge MP to act on congested road : DNA
Constant traffic jams in the internal lanes of Krishna Nagar are now getting on the nerves of east Delhi residents. In the absence of traffic lights and proper policing, the road from Geeta Colony to Krishna Nagar is always blocked, troubling the commuters on a daily basis.
“There is no red light in the area. Hardly any traffic police is deployed on the route. It is extremely difficult to commute on this road. It takes almost an hour to cross it,” said Mayank Sharma, a commuter.
According to residents, five-six ATMs, banks, and grocery stores are located on the street. Most people come to these places in their own vehicles, which they park on the road. “There is no space left to drive on this road because of these parked vehicles,” said Minakshi Pandey, a resident.
The locality’s residents have also written a letter to MP Mahesh Giri, requesting him to intervene in the matter. The MP has further shot off a letter to the Delhi Traffic Police in this regard.
BS Vohra, President of the East Delhi RWAs Joint Front Federation, said: “We have been requesting the authorities to look into the matter. At times, even ambulances get stuck in the traffic. Such emergencies can arise anytime and we need a solution for this.”
Meanwhile, according to sources, the traffic police are working to make the stretch jam-free. “We are aware of the situation. Work is being done to improve the traffic system on the road,” a senior Delhi Traffic Police officer said.
with thanks : DNA : LINK
REMOVAL OF STREET LIGHT
It is matter of concern that following street light has been removed without making any other arrangment resulting in plunging of area into darkness on 27.12.2016:
POLE NO. 417-34/11/2
TYPE OF POLE. IRON
ADDRESS: IN FRONT OF HOUSE NO. 2401 PREM GALI PUNJABI BASTI, SUBZI MANDI, DELHI-110007
This was only one street light in Prem Gali, Tikona Park, Punjabi Basti, Subzi Mandi, Delhi-110007 which has been removed on 27.12.2016. Kindly install the street light immediately as whole of area of gali is in total darkness.
TIKONA PARK ENCLAVE
RWA (REGD.)
Monday, December 19, 2016
Appointment with LG:Plan to make Delhi Poster Free
HE Najeeb Jung Ji,
Please refer to Shri Vishwendra ji's mail of 14 December 2016, expressing your inability to give audience. I have requested for your audience as under :-
07-10-2013
21-07-2014
25-08-2014
22-11-2014
25-11-2014
07-10-2015
06-06-2016
12-12-2016
All have been denied.
You are the Executive Head of Delhi and control the Delhi Govt, Delhi Police and the Civic Agencies, responsible to implement theDelhi Prevention of Defacement of Property Act 2007 which came into force wef 1 March 2009.
Over seven years have elapsed but Delhi is still littered with Posters / Banners / Writings on Walls / Illegal Hoardings.
We wanted your audience to iron out the difficulties being faced by the implementing agencies and help them as Bhagidars.
Poster Hatao used to conduct Poster Hatao events but had to abandon as there is practically no system to prevent the new ones coming up almost immediately.
DPDP Act 2007 is very strong, in that, the offence is Cognizable, Criminal and the Head or the Beneficiary is the offender. This Act is very very easily implementable.
Due to non-implementation of the DPDP Act 2007, we were forced to put up a PIL in Delhi High Court and Hon'ble DHC has given a very clear order on 6 May 2015 but Delhi is still littered with Posters.
Poster Free India has been accepted as a part of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan by Hon'ble Venkaiah Naidu Ji.
This menace has two parts.
1. System to ensure that new Defacement does not take place and if some one does manage to do it, exemplary punishment is awarded.
2. Remove the existing Defacement.There are over a crore of Defacement in Delhi. If it takes about 5 minutes to remove one, it requires many many man days and no Govt agency has such resources. But, if 1 crore citizens remove one Defacement each, the city will be cleaned in 5 minutes. We the citizens of Delhi can help in this.
Please tell us as to how should we tackle this menace.
This is a one time task.
This will save Tons of paper thus trees.
This will increase the revenue of the Civic Agencies many many folds.
This is a WIN WIN situation for all.
Request please reconsider and give us time for a meeting at the earliest.
We plan to make Delhi Poster Free by 26 January 2017.
Thanks & regards
Col Shivraj
Convenor
Poster Hatao Campaign
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