HC directs Delhi govt to release funds to EDMC, North MCD or face contempt

Press Trust of India  |  New Delhi Last Updated at August 28, 2018, 19:10 IST

The Delhi High Court today directed the AAP government to release funds to the east and north Delhi municipal corporations to pay the salaries and pensions of all their employees and warned of initiating contempt action against it.

A bench of Chief Justice Rajendra Menon and Justice V K Rao asked the Delhi government to comply with, in 10 days, its earlier order directing it to pay the amount according to the recommendations of the 4th Delhi Finance Commission (DFC).

The bench said if the government failed to comply with its April and May orders, it would ask the chief secretary and principal secretary of the department concerned to appear before it and show why contempt action be not initiated against them.

The court said it was "constrained" to pass this order as the issue concerned salaries of employees, including teachers, and pension of retired persons. It listed the matter for further hearing on September 10.

It noted that the government has not yet complied with the court's April 16, May 21 and May 25 orders and made it clear that the state had to make payments to East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) and North Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) for paying salaries to employees.

Advocate Monika Arora, appearing for North MCD, told the court that the government has not complied with the court's April order and they have not received any money to pay salaries to their employees.

Delhi government additional standing counsel Satyakam and Sanjay Ghose submitted that the government has challenged the three orders of the high court before the Supreme Court.

When the bench was informed that no stay or an interim order has been passed by the apex court, it asked the government to comply with the previous orders.

"If there is no stay, you comply with the orders. We will haul you up for contempt...We want compliance of the orders or else Delhi Chief Secretary and Principal Secretary of the department concerned will be here," the court said.

The high court had on April 16 told the Delhi government to disburse the amounts with effect from November 1, 2017, and not make it an "ego issue".

It had observed that despite having the funds, the Delhi government did not appear willing to implement the 4th DFC, under which the civic bodies have been allocated more funds than they were receiving at present.

On May 21, when the Delhi government sought a review of the court's April 16 decision, the bench said there was no stay on its order and asked the state to pay within one month the amounts to EDMC and North MCD.

The court was hearing a batch of writ petitions on providing adequate funds to all the local bodies, including the three municipal corporations, to enable their proper functioning.

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First Published: Tue, August 28, 2018. 19:10 IST

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What Anurag Kashyap tweeted after viewing Censor Board Letter - Manmarziyan

It is quite shocking that Mr. Anurag Kashyap is not willing to understand the sentiments of the Sikh community.

On the one hand, he says, "It was never the intention to hurt the community and why would we do that when we got so much love from them". 

On the other hand, he says,"Technology does not allow us to cut a scene and it affects the story telling. So I definitely can not do that now.

To those whose hurt is genuine, I offer a genuine apology, that wasn’t my intention. And for those who are doing it for attention, I am glad you have got the attention".

And after viewing the Letter of the Censor Board, his outburst was," Congratulations. Here by all problems of Punjab are solved and Sikh youth have been saved. Happy to be back in LaLa land again. Next time you are threatened by a film please call Kishore Lulla directly on +91 98679 66661. Eros knows how to solve matters in minutes".

Congratulations . Here by all problems of Punjab are solved and Sikh youth have been saved . Happy to be back in LaLa land again. Next time you are threatened by a film please call Kishore Lulla directly on +91 98679 66661. Eros knows how to solve matters in minutes.. https://t.co/j42RN2GtV0

— Anurag Kashyap (@anuragkashyap72) September 20, 2018

Thanks to @anuragkashyap72 & Censor Board to accept the responsibility & delete the scenes. It's an irony that when Anurag Kashyap wanted to solve the drug problem with @UdtaPunjabFilm_, it had so many cuts by CBFC but in @manmarziyanfilm when it was unnecessary, CBFC let it go. pic.twitter.com/g8RvLb4h7n

— Jasveer Singh (@jasveer2589) September 20, 2018

Garbage piling up in east Delhi - The Hindu

The strike by sanitation workers enters Day 8

The Resident Welfare Associations (RWAs) in east Delhi have raised a complaint about the growing piles of garbage on the streets, as a strike by the municipal safai karamcharis entered its eighth day on Wednesday.

B.S Vohra, president of the East Delhi RWA’s Joint Front, said: “The garbage from homes is being collected by people we have privately employed, but the streets are not being swept, which is leading to big piles of garbage everywhere. Diseases will spread because of this.”

Safai karamchari unions have been protesting over delayed payment of wages and the roll-back of hiked minimum wage announced by the Delhi government.

Sanjay Ghelot, president of the MCD Swachhata Karamchari Union, which is leading the strike, said: “We have met the Mayor twice till now but have only received assurances. We will not end the strike till we see some real results.”

Nirmal Jain, Leader of the House of the East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC), said: “We are urging the union to give up their strike... the EDMC is in a poor financial situation, we need funds from the Delhi government to be able to meet their demands.”

The EDMC also filed a police complaint against Mr. Ghelot and other office-bearers of the union on Tuesday for having allegedly threatened corporation officials. Mr. Ghelot has refuted the allegations.

A civic body official said: “We need the help of the people. Garbage is still being collected from the dumps. If people throw their garbage at the designated spots instead of on the roads, the strike can be broken.”

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Yet another strike of the Sanitation workers in East Delhi

Yet another strike of the sanitation workers in east Delhi - 8th day - its stinking all over with garbage everywhere on the roads. The same old story - EDMC has no funds, Sanitation workers demanding Salary & arrears. Strange & Shocking. How many times we will have to bear all this? How many times they have to sit on the Strike to get the Salary & the arrears? MCD is not listening. Delhi Government is not listening. The general public is facing the menace of garbage & liter all over - stinking lanes & bylanes. Enough is enough. Seems the time has come when the three MCD's of Delhi must be unified again so that cash crunch of EDMC is over as the richer areas with higher payouts are out of the range of EDMC.

DDA Public Hearing on 19th September 2018

7th September 2018

Secy, DDA,

New Delhi

Dear Sir,

Just can not understand that how you can increase the Limit of the Household industrial units from 5 persons to 10 persons and the Electric load from 5 kW to 11 kW?

Have you given a thought that how much pressure it will make on the Infrastructure of the City, which is already lacking in every respect?

Residents are already facing severe problems in this Most Polluted & most congested city, where Civic Agencies have absolutely failed in providing even the basic necessities.

We strongly oppose any such modification in the MPD 2021. Please let us know in case there is any Public hearing.

Thanks

B S Vohra

President

East Delhi RWAs Joint Front - Federation

http://www.RWABhagidari.com

rwabhagidari@yahoo.in 

This is how Delhi is the Most Polluted City

This is how Delhi is the Most Polluted City. In spite of the orders of the NGT and various Pollution control bodies such as CPCB & DPCC, nothing can be controlled until n unless we take it as our Citizen Responsibility, Duty & Responsibility to come forward to Save the City from the clutches of Pollution.

BS VOHRA, Environment Activist

Why NO Meeting of CM, with the RWAs of Delhi ?

Mr. Arvind Kejriwal, 

CM, Delhi 

Dear Sir,

Almost 4 years are nearing completion and we are still awaiting an RWAs meet with you. We still remember the meet that you had called before the Elections at Rouse Avenue and had made huge promises with the RWAs present there. We just can not understand that why you stopped communicating with the RWAs, once you came into power.

We still remember the Bhagidari Cell of Smt Shiela Dikshit which had given us so many opportunities of getting the work done through SDMs of the area with a regular meeting with him. But since your arrival, SDMs have stopped calling RWAs as they don't have any such instructions from your office.

MCD says they don't have Funds and you don't ask SDMs to invite the RWAs to discuss even the basic necessities of life, such as road repairs, pothole filling, water logging issues etc. As a result Life of the residents has become very difficult. 

Issues of De-silting have made the life miserable as since last over 25 years, Delhiites have to face severe water logging every now & then. Potholes in the knee-deep waterlogged areas, give real bumps in the stomach of every rider. 

The documents say that the drainage system of Delhi has absolutely failed and we don't even know the fate of the research done by IIT engineers & many other organizations in this regard. 

Traffic Jam & Pollution are the burning issues causing huge problems for the residents. WHO says that over 30K persons are dying every year just due to the Pollution related issues in Delhi NCR. 

Open Dhalavs in almost every locality & the Open Landfill sites, mountains of garbage, are the worst sides of this mega city.

The DISCOMs are collecting huge amounts of Fixed charges for the Fake Sanctioned load, that is never arranged, never supplied by them but there is none to listen.

We definitely appreciate some of your good works such as Free operations in the Private hospitals, Doorstep delivery, Pension to senior citizens, etc. 

But we also expect your direct interaction with the RWAs of Delhi. We do not require any funds, instead, we just want that all the local issues could be resolved with your intervention, through the SDMs of the area, as earlier.

Awaiting your earliest response.

With best regards,

B S Vohra

President,

East Delhi RWAs Joint Front - Federation

www.RWABhagidari.com

pics used with thanks to various sources.

Soon, pay less for the sanctioned power load change : HT

Mr. Arvind Kejriwal, CM,

Mr. Satyendra Jain, Power Minister,

Dear Sir,

In response to our stories on Delhi Aajtak on the issue of Zero Billing & the Additional Load charges, the Power Minister of Delhi, Mr. Satyender Jain had issued a Statement, over a month ago, instructing the DERC for the necessary changes. 

As a result, the Additional Load charges (Security Deposit) were to be collected on the prevailing rates, only on the Additional Load & not on the entire load of the consumers.

 

While thanking you for the above-said orders, we just want to have a confirmation from your office or from the DERC that the above changes have been notified & implemented. 

May I request you to please look into the issue & revert at the earliest.

With best regards,

B S Vohra,

President,

East Delhi RWAs Joint Front - Federation

www.RWABhagidari.com 

What else you want Mr CM ?

Telangana CM 4,10,000 pm, 

Delhi CM 3,90,000 pm, 

UP CM 3,65,000 pm, 

Maha CM 3,40,000 pm,

Andhra CM 3,35,000 pm,

Gujrat CM 3,21,000 pm.....

This is the amount of Salary they get per month, and they say, they are here to serve the Country. Please check more details from the LINK of Yahoo Finance News.

Stalked, Trapped in Hotel: US Travel Blogger Narrates Delhi Ordeal

Stalked, Trapped in Hotel: US Travel Blogger Narrates Delhi Ordeal

“Men just randomly passing by reached out and grabbed me… they were touching me, groping me. This one guy kinda leaned in […] and he just said to me, ‘I want to f**k you’, right into my face, even with Livio right there.”

This was just one of the harrowing experiences that Jordan Taylor, an American travel blogger had, when she was recently visiting India. In a vlog she made about the visit, Jordan, who goes by the name ‘Travellight’ on social media, recounted the multiple instances she was sexually harassed while in the national capital New Delhi.

She was forced to confine herself to her room in a hotel when the staff allegedly started sexually harassing her and trying to get her to open the door. This place had apparently partnered with hotel aggregator OYO rooms, which has now taken action against the hotel.

Jordan recounts that the harassment peaked when her boyfriend, Livio, left four days before she was to leave India. By this time, Livio and Jordan had checked into the OYO rooms partnered hotel, identified as the OYO hotel on Main Bazaar Road, Paharganj, Delhi.

Though the couple tried to make it appear as though Livio was still there, the hotel staff saw him leave for the airport early in the morning. What happened next was yet another example of how people continue to respect a man’s presence and claim over a woman above her own will. As soon as Livio left, the hotel staff’s behavior changed towards Jordan, she says in the vlog.

“From that very morning they started acting completely different to me. At one point, one of them even followed me up the stairs. They called the room, and I know for a fact that it was hotel employees because this phone is only for hotel use […] and they said into the phone, ‘Heyyyy babyyyy!’ I hung up. They called the room again and it was just silent and not saying anything. […] The next day, they call the room, I pick up and they were just making sexual noises… breathing. There is no way that this was normal breathing into the phone,” Jordan narrates.

“It was extremely uncomfortable at that point,” she says.

Things took a turn for the worse two days before she was supposed to leave. Jordan was in her room when one of the men knocked and asked her to open the door. When she did not, he allegedly came back an hour later and banged something very hard on the door. But when Jordan still did not relent, someone allegedly turned off the AC from outside the room.

“I heard him flip it (the main switch) off. It was a very distinct sound. Immediately he knocks on my door and says, ‘Hello! The AC is broken. We need to come in and fix it. Open the door and we’ll come and fix the AC.’ And I just said no, I am not answering the door,” Jordan said.

When they tried telling her the same thing over the phone, Jordan said she knew they had turned off the AC and it was not broken.

After this, they stopped knocking but Jordan says she could see shadows outside her door from the gap at the bottom.

“He was right outside my door. There were more people who came, I don’t know who. They would knock and say open the door. Then they shut off the WiFi and said the same story – that they need to come in and fix the WiFi,” Jordan shares.

“I knew that they were lying because the AC wasn’t broken. I just felt so certain that if I did open the door… then. Because they were so desperately trying with lies to get into my room… I did feel very certain that if I did, something very bad would happen. And I still think that it would have,” Jordan says. The trauma is clearly visible on her face at this point.

After a few deep breaths and regaining her composure, she says that the harassment continued for a very long time, almost two days. “I would always see the shadows right underneath the door […] it would move away for a few minutes and they would come back. I knew they were always on the other side of the door. And this went on for two days,” she recounts, still rattled.

She ran out of the water and could not go out to get food. “[I felt like] I am being hunted at the hotel I was staying,” she says.

“The best I can describe it is like I was in a horror movie. It’s in the place where you’re supposed to feel safe and you’re sleeping in your bed at night and you can’t even relax. You can never feel safe. There’s nowhere you can go, you’re trapped.”

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