RWAs release public manifesto - Times of India

Apr 15 2017 : The Times of India (Delhi)

E DELHI WISHES - 

RWAs release 

public manifesto

Mayank Manohar

New Delhi:





RWAs have come out with their own manifesto and have written to all the three prime political parties ­ BJP , Congress and AAP -to highlight their issues in the parties' manifestos. The manifesto has a list of 15 issues pertaining to the residents and highlights issues of the capital.B S Vohra, RWA president of East Delhi Joint Front, said that while all three political parties are busy in their blame game, it is important to shift their focus on the real issues that the residents have been suffering for many years.
“We have made a list of 15 issues and have appealed to all parties to highlight them in their manifestos. They should highlight issues that are associated directly with the public and should not have any vested interest,“ Vohra said.
In the letter, the RWAs have sought a solution and assurance from the political parties to take up the issues and put an end to them.
“The most important point that we want to highlight is that there should be coordination among different parties.It has been evident in the last two years how east Delhi has suffered when sanitation workers were not paid their salaries and instead of coming up with a solution, what followed was a blame game between BJP-led east corporation and AAP-led Delhi government,“ he said.
The public manifesto highlights issues like pollution, poor garbage collection, landfill fire, overflowing dhalaos, encroachment, parking, bad quality of roads, stray animals menace etc. Vohra pointed out that the issue of funds between civic bodies and Delhi government should be resolved and corruption in municipalities is a major cause of concern for the residents.

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RWAs issues for MCD Election Manifesto

Subject : RWAs issues for MCD Election Manifesto :

Kind Attention :

1. Mr Arvind Kejriwal, CM, Delhi

2. Mr Manish Sisodia, Dy CM, Delhi

3. Mr Manoj Tiwari, President, Delhi BJP

4. Mr Ajay Makan, President, Delhi Congress

( via E mail, Twitter, WhatsApp, Facebook )

Dear Sir,

In spite of being the residents of the National capital, Delhiites are facing so many problems, such as : Pollution, Traffic jam, Parking, Encroachment, Water logging, Sanitation, Open Dhalav, Potholes, etc.

Through this mail to the Leaders of various political parties, we seek an Assurance in their Election Manifesto, clearly stating, that how soon our problems, as below, will come to an end : 

1. Most Polluted City : It has become, one of the most polluted city of the world.

2. Smoking mountains, Landfill sites : These are contributing to the Air, Water & Soil pollution.

3. Open Dhalav’s in the inner localities : They have become a big nuisance for the residents.

4. Door to Door Garbage collection : It is the very basic need of the hour.

5. Encroachment : It can be seen in any locality with bare eyes, and adds to traffic jam & pollution.

6. Traffic Jam : It has become a common problem for every locality.

7. Illegal parking : It is also the reason of Traffic jams as well as quarrels at various locations.

8. Potholes : These are visible on every single road in the inner localities.

9. Water Logging : The city is converted into a big lake, during every downpour in Monsoon.

10. Sanitation workers strike : Five strikes in two years have truly shattered the residents.

11. Stray Animals : Stray Dogs & Monkeys can be seen in every locality.

12. Funds problem between MCD & Delhi Govt. : It has caused severe damage to the local infrastructure.

13. MCD Corruption : It is the major cause of concern for the residents.

14. Co-ordination : In the Elections at Delhi Govt & MCD levels, any party may win. We are expecting a suitable coordination amongst all those who win and the Hon’ble LG, for suitable implementation of plans for the development of the city.

15. RWA EMPOWERMENT : Last but not the least, we expect the RWA Empowerment as RWAs are the selfless workers & a real backbone of the city.

These are some of the very basic issues that require your immediate attention. We don’t think that any of the above issues require any further detailed description from our side, as all these issues are clearly visible with bare eyes, in almost every locality.

We are now looking for your upcoming manifesto, with a GREAT HOPE.

With best regards,

B S Vohra

President

East Delhi RWAs Joint Front – Federation

www.RWABhagidari.com

www.RWABhagidari.blogspot.in

Mobile Tower Radiation in East Delhi checked by East Delhi RWAs Joint Front

SC order a shot in arm for RWAs

Supreme Court order to shut down a mobile phone tower in Gwalior on a plea filed by a 42-year old domestic help has heated up the debate about the supposed harmful radiations emitted by them. The petition had claimed that radiation from the illegal tower installed on a neighbour's rooftop in 2002 had affected him adversely in the past 14 years. 

The SC order has given a shot in the arm to the campaigns of many Residents' Welfare Associations (RWAs) in Delhi who have been opposing these structures for years. 

Dr Kapil Kakkar, RWA president of Jangpura Extension, said that he has filed several complaints with the municipal corporation about installation of mobile phone towers in residential areas. Many residents have now asked him to take up the issue strongly, especially after the SC verdict. 

A guesthouse in our area has a mobile tower for the past 15 years. Residents living nearby are suffering from cancer because of it. Even the guesthouse owner and his mother are suffering from the ailment, but he is unable to remove the tower as the clauses in the agreement cannot be violated," said Kakkar.

The East Delhi RWA president, BS Vohra, took the campaign against mobile towers a step further by checking the radiation emanating from them. "But the companies reduced the frequency that day and we couldn't get a clear reading," he claimed. 

Requesting the government to act strongly, Vohra said that mobile companies "have a strong lobby and they get away despite knowing that radiation from these towers could be harmful. 

RWA president of Mayur Vihar-I Pocket-III, Om Aggarwal believes that the SC judgment will increase the sense of responsibility of telecom companies. However, East of Kailash RWA president, Wing Commander JS Chadda, believes that since many experts say the towers cause no harm, "there is no basis for us to go about protesting against their presence in our areas. 

We started a movement to remove the towers, but stopped as government reports suggested that they have no detrimental effects," Chadda said. 

Rajiv Kakria, RWA President of GK-I, has a different take. "Residential areas shouldn't put up these towers as they are aesthetically not pleasant and there's always a chance of them falling down during storms. " He has asked telecom companies to reduce sound pollution from generators by upgrading their technology. 

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Happy Baisakhi !

Timely exposure to what effect !

Timely exposure to what effect! All parties make such announcements to get votes but once they occupy position, they forget such promises and remain silent till the next elections as they think that there is nobody, unlike you, could remember and take them to the task and expose them! In fact it is a very sad state of affairs that money and freebies lure the public at large and seek their votes!

With regards,

TK Balu

Mail Today : RWAs Empowerment Vision Plan ?

with thanks : Mail Today : 11.4.2017

Mr Arvind Kejriwal - what happened to the RWAs Empowerment Vision plan ?

10^th April, 2017

Mr Arvind Kejriwal, CM, Delhi

Mr Manish Sisodia, Dy CM, Delhi

Dear Sir,

In a meeting with the RWAs of Delhi, before the last assembly elections, you had made huge promises, on the issue of Empowerment of RWAs. Though your RWAs Empowerment Vision plan is still visible on your website, it seems that all the promises that you made with the RWAs of Delhi have vanished. 

Please go through your RWAs Empowerment Vision plan, as visible on your website, as below : 

AAP announces the RWAs empowerment vision plan : 

* AAP unveils its citizens empowerment vision document 

AAP promises RWA Act to give them legal sanctity

* Rs four crore citizen Local Area Development Fund annually for each vidhan sabha

This will be solely for recognized RWAs who follow guidelines

*  No interference of MP/MLA in this fund

The Aam Aadmi Party on Saturday unveiled its citizens empowerment plan at the conference of the Resident Welfare Associations in the national capital.

At a conference attended by the representatives of over 700 RWAs across Delhi, former chief minister and AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal announced the party’s stand of setting up a Citizens Local Area Development Fund after giving a legal sanctity to RWAs by passing a RWA Act in the state assembly.

Kejriwal announced that after being elected by the people in the long overdue assembly elections, the AAP government’s priority will be to empower the RWAs by creating a Citizens Local Area Development Fund in each assembly constituency of Delhi and this fund will be equal to that of the MLA Local Area Development Fund.

He proposed an amount of Rs four crore annually to allow the legally recognized the RWAs  to carry out their local development, repair and welfare works without any external interference, once the RWA Act will come into existence.

The AAP proposes to streamline the functioning of RWAs in consultation with them. Kejriwal proposed the following steps to allow smooth functioning of the RWAs :

1)    There should be only be a single RWA in a locality.

2)    It should be registered.

3)    It should have free and fair elections at regular intervals as per its constitution.

4)   As a part of this exercise, it is proposed that the RWA will have a GBM of all its members on a fixed day and time every month. All important decisions shall be taken in the GBM by the residents. RWA shall be responsible for subsequently implementing those decisions.

5)   The accounts of RWA shall be transparent and available for public inspection. They shall be annually audited and presented to the GBM. There shall be social audit of accounts at regular intervals...........

Kejriwal said the AAP stand was that there should be no scope for any external interference, including that of the MP or MLA, in the works that recognised RWAs can do with public consultation in their respective areas......................

Once you won the elections with an absolute majority, we had high hopes, but not yet heard anything about those big promises made by you. Therefore, now, before the MCD elections, we would like to ask as below :

1. What happened to the RWA Act, giving a legal sanctity to the RWAs by passing it in the state assembly ?

2. What happened to your promises of Empowerment of RWAs ?

3. Instead of streamlining the functioning of RWAs, why your party started neglecting the RWAs and tilted towards the Mohalla Sabha ?

Looking forward for your valued response, with a hope, that you will not force us to believe, that you had made the fake promises with us.

With Best regards,

B S Vohra

President,

East Delhi RWAs Joint Front ( Federation )

www.RWABhagidari.com

www.RWABhagidari.blogspot.in

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Shunglu committee report shows Arvind Kejriwal treats his personal discretion as law in Delhi

A voluminous VK Shunglu Committee report is yet another reminder that for Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, rule of law means that his personal discretion is law in Delhi. The perks of power, government positions, sanctioned or otherwise and any associated benefits were to be offered to the chosen beneficiaries at whims to relatives of ministers and personal favourites of party lords, in total disregard to laid out structures and norms.

He could still brazen it out, he and his party colleagues could still lecture on morality, public probity and integrity, claiming that everyone else in varied social structure and polity except for those associated with their party AAP had some taint to hide.

Unfortunately for him, a well documented Shunglu committee report along with annexure, which came to conclusions after examining 404 files and discussions with key officials including chief secretary and principal secretaries of departments concerned, has exposed Kejriwal's hypocritical probity stance in public life.

More so, this official expose comes at a time when Kejriwal is already facing the heat of another finding and subsequent directive by Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal asking Delhi Chief Secretary to initiate process of recovery of Rs 97 crore by Arvind Kejriwal-led ruling Aam Admi Party for a series of advertisements which Kejriwal, as chief minister, issued in violation of Supreme Court directive. As per L-G's directive, Delhi government (Kejriwal) has to recover this huge amount from AAP (Kejriwal) in 30 days' time, of which one week has already elapsed.

The L-G's order was not whimsical. It was based on findings of the Supreme Court-mandated Committee on Content Regulation of Government Advertising (CCRGA), constituted by Information and Broadcasting ministry.

Another revelation is that Kejriwal insisted that Ram Jethmalani must bill for defending him in defamation case filed against him by finance minister Arun Jaitley. And on his instructions, Delhi government cleared the payment file at a super-fast speed without due approval from L-G, which badly tarnished his image.

Shunglu committee findings reveal that Kejriwal government is hit with a malice of the worst kind for any government: Nepotism, favouritism and cronyism. It goes on listing instances after instances where norms were flouted, laid out official channels bypassed, not just the L-G who is administrative head of Delhi government but also the departments like law and finance, which were otherwise required to give approval on files in most cases.

Take for instance appointment of health minister Satyendra Jain's daughter Soumya Jain as as adviser to mission director, Delhi State Mission. Soumya had a degree in architecture and didn't have any supportive documents to her claim for expertise on mohalla clinics. The file also does not have any mention as to who approved her appointment. Despite that, she was appointed to the post. An expenditure of Rs 1.15 lakh was also incurred between the date of her joining and the date she resigned from the post. Shunglu committee noted "these events could only be explained by the fact that Soumya Jain is the daughter of Satyendar Jain, health minister and Chairman of Delhi state health mission and of society registered for executing projects."

Another case of nepotism relates to appointment of Nikunj Agarwal, said to be a relative of Kejriwal, as OSD to the health minister. "Dr Agarwal is appointed as senior resident on an ad hoc basis on his mere application by the resident medical officer of CNBC hospital, when there was no vacancy in that hospital and the established procedure is to invite applications through advertisements and effect selections after interviews by a panel of expert," the committee report said.

with thanks : FirstPost : LINK : for detailed news report.
Must go through in the wake of MCD Elections in Delhi.

MCD Election Issue

Dear S. Vohra ji,

An excellent, informative and enlightening article on the state of affairs of the MCDs! Your contribution for bringing out such an illuminating article for all to read is immense and timely! Can we still learn a lesson or two to improve the working/functioning of the MCDs? Difficult to assess! We wonder what would be outcome of the MCD elections! If no party gets the majority and get sufficient sinews to fight with the local govt. it may be difficult to achieve anything and the people at large will suffer, while the newly elected Councillors will prosper and build up their image enlivening the pitiable plight of the people. Task is enormous but a planned and phased implementation of reforms/changes in all spheres will bring about the desirable impact, different from the past, to applaud and appreciate! Let's look forward for a brighter future in all circles to build up the image of the Capital at large with the assistance of all - sab ke saath, sab ke vikas!

With best regards,

TK Balu/Anand Vihar

MCD ELECTION ISSUE

Sir 

the biggest issue is lifting of garbage and disposal. The Best way provide sufficient No of Dust Bin to each RWA. Handover the Work to Private agencies under strict govt control. Ask them to prepare Vermi compost and Distribute the Same to RWA at Reasonable rate. There will be more Cleanness in Delhi 

Chander Mohan 

Navrachna Appartment