Wednesday, July 10, 2013

RWAs views on the announcement made by CM :

I would like to clarify regarding the doubts created by some RWAs regarding the authenticity of one lakh to be given to RWAs.  In the Bhagidari meet at Talkatora Stadium on 7.7.2013 the CM announced this amount for the betterment of the working of the RWAs.  I would request to kindly go forward and send your estimate for sanction.  Thereafter we can comment whether it is false or true.  Accordingly we could clear our doubts and trust the statement of the CM.
  
R K Nanda 
President 
'Sahyog' Varishst Nagrik Manch, 
Shalimar Bagh, 


This is really a fabulous news, but as there is thick layer of cloud of uncertainty is covered as yet to know what is the formalities to procure it is not cleared, so is it a kind of political stunt in view of upcoming election in Delhi, it will better clear in near future.

Amitabh Ranjan 
President
RWA,  
Loknayakpuram

Tuesday, July 9, 2013

URGENT REQUEST FOR CLEAN UP OF SOM BAZAAR CHOWK AREA ON JAIL ROAD,AT HARI NAGAR G BLOCK AREA

Dear Sir/Madam,

1..We the residents of  G BLOCK, HARI NAGAR AREA,JAIL ROAD  are approaching you through our RWA for the URGENT clean up of our Residential area as mentioned above. The following population is immediately effected:-

(a) Hari Nagar G Block-                               Approx  20000 residents
(b) Virender Nagar-                                      Approx- 37000 residents
(c) Shiv Nagar-                                                Approx  50000 residents

2.The area measures approx 8000 sq yards and is located at the ENTRANCE to the above mentioned residential areas and adjacent to the JAIL ROAD, opposite Petrol Pump/Omsweets shop and also popularly known as Som Bazar Chowk area. The area is under private ownership and over a period of time has become cesspool of dirt, garbage, parked vehicles, break down vehicles, Generators, dead animals ,human litter and waste, unauthorized constructions, and is used by the unknown people.The area has become not only polluted by all the a/m things but is also a SECURITY RISK as there is NO lighting arrangements and bad elements are often seen around there. It is indeed very RISKY for our daughters ,women and even men to walk through this area at Night.The wastes are thrown by many occupants and the area STINKS all the time and it is getting difficult  to LIVE in this area. Our past Councillors have often promised us for resolution of the a/m issue, but NOTHING has been done as yet..

3.You are requested to kindly use your good offices to prevail upon the owners of this land either to construct a wall all around their land or the GOVT should intervene and  construct or can help them to SELL the land or ACQUIRE/PURCHASE  the land for the public good.

4. We the residents are keen to see a small Park to be built up over here and this would be the boon for all the residents. We humbly pray to you for the immediate resolution of this long pending issue and bring happiness to the residents of these areas.

5.In support of our request we have  the signatures of the residents of these areas  appended.

Sincerely, & On behalf of All Residents of  G BLOCK HARI NAGAR, VIRENDER NAGAR AND SHIV NAGAR 

President            
Capt  G C Sachdev

RWAs views on the announcement made by CM :

Dear Mr. Vohra ji,

We cannot but commend your consistent efforts on all fronts to look after the interest and welfare of all residents in East Delhi! Your mailing system of uptodate news and views and publicity and keeping in touch with all affiliates etc. are praiseworthy and admirable. Your indefatigable energy and unlimited and boundless enthusiasm in all matters are unexceptionable indeed! These are not mere hyperbole but true to the letter and spirit!!

We heartily welcome the munificence of our Hon'ble CM of extending financial assistance to the RWAs which could be very profitably utilized for the welfare and security of the residents without doubt. In fact our Society had taken various steps to ensure the security and safety of residents in the present of adverse atmosphere of insecurity, albeit the subject is more concerned with the Police authorities rather burdening the residents but when the former has no means and wherewithal for the purpose excepting providing the same to VVIPs etc. where 'aam aadmi' are left to fend for themselves, by providing gates and presently engaged in installing CCTVs (the craze of the season on the recommendation of the Police authorities) at all vulnerable points, despite their efficacy which is questionable. All this and more involve lot of expenditure which has to be met on eking out of the sum from all residents who abode in different colonies. This little sum will be of great help to minimize the expenditure to some extent. But this has to be channelized properly in a total transparent manner which is of very vital importance. You may kindly recall that similar announcement was made a few months back at a forum by the Hon'ble CM but nothing concrete has taken shape. We wish and hope that this will also vanish in thin air when the monsoon is in full swing and thus becomes an election stunt to lure the voters! Let's see how this august announcement takes shape and implemented without any strings attached. Pl. follow it up and let all know what procedure to be adopted to derive this benefit by the RWAs. This will be a great service from you in enlightening the RWAs as to how to proceed further and to whom to approach.

With best regards,

TK Balu/RBECHS/Anand Vihar
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Pl guide us. Idea of CM is good but amount is very less to maintain the hole security systems and hi tech facilities . Amount should be depend on the area of the society / colony and facilities required by the peoples.  

Ajay Gupta
Secretary
Pragati Co-op Group Housing Society, Pitampura
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All the RWAs are now requested to kindly take advantage of the announcements of the CM and send their demand for improvement in their colony in getting the assured sum of Rs. One lakh, however kindly inform if possible where to apply,  to the SDM or the Bhagidari Cell of Delhi Govt., it is not clarified.  Your reply will help the RWAs to directly claim for the amount without wastage of time.  

R K Nanda
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Only God knows if the information regarding one lakh rupees to each RWA is a news item or something in real and  will hold good.  Thanks for the information.

Ashok K Bhatnagar
Jan Shakti Vikas Samiti, Gandhi Nagar
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Its an excellent proposal however accessing Rs. 1 Lakh for the society should be simplified. In light of the good governance money could be directly transferred to the society account. Women headed president of the society should be given added incentives.

Ms. Vijaya Samal

RWA President Divya Jyoti Appartments, Rohini

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Bhagidari is the most prestigious project of Delhi Govt & we the RWAs of Delhi have always appreciated the efforts of Delhi Govt in promoting Bhagidari amongst RWAs of Delhi. In my personal opinion, instead of providing money to the RWAs, Delhi Govt must issue instructions, that, work of RWAs ( of any quantum ), must be done by the authorities at the first go.

B S Vohra
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What’s new with Income Taxes and e-Filing this year

As an Individual you are required by law to file your Income Tax Returns, if your total income without allowing deductions (such as Section80C etc) exceeds the basic exemption limit.
There’s good news for you because for this assessment year(2013-14), the exemption limit has been increased. 
  • For Individuals below the age of 60 (both men and women),the exemption limit is Rs. 2 Lakh.
  • For senior citizens above the age of 60, the exemption limit is Rs. 2.5 Lakh
  • And finally, for super senior citizens (Individuals above the age of 80), the exemption limit is raised to Rs. 5 lakh
There’s some more good news for Senior Citizens because the eligible age for Senior Citizens has been reduced from 65 to 60 years for:
  • Section 80D (Deductions on Medical Insurance),
  • Section 80DDB (Deduction on Medical Treatment) and 197A
Changes in e-Filing this year onwards

  • E-Filing is compulsory for people earning more than Rs. 5Lakhs. This refers to the total income amount after claiming tax deductions like section 80 deductions. 
  • You will need to enter the IFSC code instead of MICR code while specifying your account details.
  • For getting refund via ECS (i.e. directly into your bank account), you have to specify an 11-digit number Bank Account Number.
    If you do not have an 11-digit bank account number, then you have to request your refund via cheque. 
  • You will have to file the ITR-2 in case of exempt income exceeding Rs. 5,000. Common examples of Exempt Income are PPF interest. Dividend earned from shares etc.
  • Remember to claim Section 80TTA: Everyone should declare their Bank Interest Income and then claim this deduction. 
  • Section 80D (Preventive Healthcare Expenses)
  • You can claim up to Rs. 5000 for preventive Healthcare Expenses. (The expenditure could have been in cash too)
  • Declaration of Assets and Liabilities for Business people:If you earn Income from Business or Profession and your Total Income exceeds Rs. 25 Lakhs, you have to provide the details of all your personal and business Assets & Liabilities in Income Tax return itself. This is for people filling in ITR-3 and ITR-4 only. 
  • Foreign Income declaration: Income earned from foreign countries has to be declared in the ITR. This is in addition declaration of all
  • foreign assets in your I-T Return.


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Monday, July 8, 2013

Rs. One Lakh will be given to each RWA every year : CM

CM has announced that Rs. One Lakh will be given to each RWA every year & this sum can be used for installing gates, CCTV cameras or for repairs etc. in the locality. We invite your comments over it. Plz revert.

Samyabadh Jagrukta Shivir : Talkatora Stadium

Bhagidari Meeting was held at Talkatora Stadium on 7.7.2013 for the North, West, and North West Districts from 10AM to 5 PM. Useful information was shared on the eve of elections. However the invited RWAs members were happy and now waiting for the reply of the Delhi Govt. for woes already posted, unable to get time to address before the CM. 

R K Nanda






Sunday, July 7, 2013

Social issues being raised by RWABhagidari on various TV channels

Social issues being raised by RWABhagidari on various TV channels can be viewed from the link below :
http://www.youtube.com/user/RWABhagidari/videos

Thanks

B S Vohra
www.RWABhagidari.blogspot.in
www.RWABhagidari.com
East Delhi RWAs Joint Front

Prevention of Dengu fever !

Respected members,
It is well said that prevention is better then cure.Preventing a bite of dengue mosquito is good but but out of so many mosquitoes every where it becomes impossible toprotect one self with 100% guarantee from a mosquito bite specially of dengue mosquitobecause it does not bite in bed room but in day time in office ,school,market, car parking,in ur car ,in the open verandah,railway station ,workshop of mechanic,park etc .It is difficult to see it due to its weak body but swift movements.This mosquito is in no hurry to hide itself in dark spaces on the rise of sun.
Its only weak points are that it breeds nearby only where it is detected.Also though it can breed on the top of the hpouse but the primary place of breeding is in the almost clean water in slightly open underground concreate drains,water storage tanks in houses offices ,schools etc.
The solution for 100 % protection is devotion of some time in identifying the dengue mosquito presence in a part of colony .The security guards or people when asked as to in which part of colony the mosquitoes are most can give a clue to the drains,underground water tanks to be examined treated with diesel/black hit to kill the larvae ,pupa & adult mosquitoes.Isaw 20-30 dengue mosquitoes hovering around a security guard sitting under a tree on one of the gates of B,BLOCK EAST OF KAILASH A NEAT & CLEAN COLONY with almost covered concreate drains with just small openings,some stagnant water & heavy breeding of dengue mosquitoes.Diesel & black hit were pumped in the drain to kill all the larvae ,pupa & adults.
Stiil & video Pictures of dengue mosquito sitting on the dark pant of security guard & after killing them with a mosquito racket  were taken & are attached.
IDENTIFY DENGUE MOSQUITOES ,IDENTIFY THE BREEDING PLACE ,eliminate the breeding place or cover it or put diesel& black hit.Repeat it again.Keep on watching for more sites ,keep on teaching to children ,neighbours,couleagues  so on.Why should we be afraid of mosquitoes ,they are intelligent but not more then a human being.
With best wishes
Dr VK Aggarwal
A-7 EAST OF KAILASH NEW DELHI






Friday, July 5, 2013

Anil Sindhwani : Hindustan Times : HT Live East


In Death Valley, the beret matters


NISHIT DHOLABHAI : At the Jungle Chatti helipad on Sunday, paratroopers prepare for the last round of evacuation. Picture by Nishit Dholabhai .

Gauchar, June 27: There is something surreal about sitting by a helipad in the midst of death and disaster and chatting about a Hollywood film.

But here, among the para-commandos and the rescuers with whom I had trekked from Jungle Chatti on the Kedarnath route, it offered a peek into the minds of the men who were rescuers risking their own lives.

A day after that trek, these men had gone off again, slithering down from helicopters into a gorge and on a mountainside in search of survivors and then bringing back the bodies of the 20 men killed in the Mi-17 V5 crash.

Last week, led by their commanding officer, the bandana-strapped Colonel Sandip Chatterjee, the men of the 6 and 7Paras, along with rescuers from the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), had lopped off some trees, uprooted electricity poles and planted explosives in the jagged rocks and blasted them to hew a helipad out of nowhere.

Within hours, they also had a campsite, complete with a communications area and a kitchen.

That little station in “Death Valley” had made it possible for the Army Aviation Corps’ Cheetah helicopters to land and evacuate the stranded people in Jungle Chatti over the weekend. Mixed teams of 6, 7 and 9 Paras were dropped into the gorges here at different spots on June 21 to extricate survivors.

Sitting by that helipad, where the stench of death mingled with the aroma of freshly brewed tea on Sunday evening, Major Bhadoria told Captain Rajendra Panchal and the soldiers around them the story of the blockbuster, A Bridge Too Far.

“So now you understand the value of your maroon beret?” he asked. “It is from the colour of blood.” Paratroopers and Special Forces wear maroon berets.

Job done, we set off towards Gaurikund, a journey of just 2.5km that took nearly five hours. The men wore T-shirts with “Airborne” embossed on them.

They had had biscuits to go with the tea as the major narrated scenes from A Bridge Too Far, starring a host of stars such as Laurence Olivier, Anthony Hopkins, Sean Connery and Robert Redford, which tells the story of a failed Allied attempt to break through German lines and seize bridges during World War II.

A scene in the film shows a British soldier being shot dead by a sniper after retrieving an air-dropped container under enemy fire. When the soldier falls, the container splits open to reveal berets.

The Paras had lived up to that beret’s spirit with daredevil rescue missions 10,000 feet down the Kedarnath gorge a few days ago. They would again live up to it days later — on Wednesday — to retrieve the bodies of fellow IAF, ITBP and NDRF personnel who were in the crashed Mi-17 V5.

These Special Forces of the army had been summoned on June 20 to Dehradun. They slid down the ropes from choppers into the Gorge of Devastation. Rescue over, evacuation was a problem. They made that helipad in a day.

An engineer surveyed the spot, wired explosives to blow off rocks and electricity poles and cleared the ground to let Cheetahs and Chetaks land on what NDRF commandant Jaideep Singh had thought was an “impossible place to land”.

“Be our guest,” a smiling Bhadoria had said shortly afterwards.

In the two days that we were there and through the trek we had jumped over maggot-infested bodies of people who had tried — and failed — to clamber up slopes to escape the flood.

Clothes, blankets, unused food packets and walking sticks littered the place.

One night, over a bowl of khichri, Captain Panchal recalled how he had found a 14-year-old from Lucknow, who had fallen down in a landslide.

When Panchal glided down the rope from a helicopter, he found the boy digging into the mud. “My mother and sister have gone to fetch water,” the teenager told him, glassy-eyed. “Call them,” the boy said.

Panchal had seen this before among survivors in a state of shock who seemed as if they were beyond pain.

“Post-traumatic stress disorder,” explained the unit’s para-commando doctor, Ritish Goyal. The boy did not know it then — his mother and sister, who got separated from him, had been rescued by another team. The family was reunited later.

The night the captain was retelling the boy’s trauma, the weatherman had forecast heavy rain. But the evacuation of Jungle Chatti was complete.

Next morning, equipped with ropes, carabiners (a metal loop or safety coupling used by climbers) and wireless sets, a team was already on the way to Rambada searching for survivors who may have climbed up the heights.

As the rains lashed, L. Sunder Meetei of the NDRF contacted commandant Singh, who had left a day earlier, to seek permission to fall back as the risks of a landslide increased every minute.

“Sir, bahut barish hone wala hai, phir nikal nahin payenge(it’s going to rain heavily, we won’t be able to move if we do not now),” Meetei said as the wireless crackled.

The commandant flashed the green light.

Behind Meetei, the Paras’ Havildar Chand Khan offered a popular soft drink as we prepared to embark on the treacherous return journey, first to Bhairon Mandir and onward to Gaurikund.

Darr ke aage jeet hai,” said Khan, quoting from a tele-commercial. He showed the thread strung around his wrist by a unit priest or maulana. “Hamare wahan to MMGC (Mandir Masjid Gurdwara Church) hai, to hausle rakkho,” he laughed, breaking into a Hindi film song.

Minutes later, a joint team of grey-uniformed NDRF, camouflaged Paras and a rag-tag group of five civilians began the walk. It was a steep climb up a hill. I wonder now if that was the hill on which the V5 crashed.

Then it was time for a steep climb downhill.

I slipped.

“Sir, rope mat chhoriye, rope pakar ke rakkho,” the havildar, who was assigned to be my buddy, and Goyal, the doctor, chorused. The army works in twos, almost always.

It was a 50-foot drop. I did what they told me — held on to the rope and somehow found a foothold.

The road from Gaurikund to Kedarnath has caved in at many places. Special Forces, the NDRF and mountaineers like Avadhesh Bhatt from Dehradun created alternative routes and accompanied over 150 pilgrims. The soldiers tied ropes to trees and rocks that rose 6,500 feet above the river that cut through the continuous gorge.

The last stretch just before Gaurikund involves scaling a cliff. Gaurikund is a ghost village, devastated by the raging river. The Paras walked away.

The NDRF accompanied this correspondent on a 6km walk to Sonprayag. Just before Sonprayag, we came across a devastated mountain and an NDRF team blew a whistle — rocks were falling. The rocks missed us.

Here, where the Son river merges into the Mandakini, the riverbed has risen by 25 metres. Truck tyres were visible. The vehicle, swept in by a strong current, was buried beneath the boulders.

Then we saw an NDRF group waiting for us and a makeshift camp, near the point from where the road had been devoured.

There was tea at the NDRF langar.

Mailed by : Mr Bharat Tiwari

National Platform Against Water Privatization (NPAWP)

In a historic move, struggle groups against water privatization from different states came together in Nagpur and formed a national platform to fight against water privatization in India. In a daylong meeting organised by Citizen’s Front for Water Democracy (Delhi) and Focus on the Global South (Delhi) in collaboration with Nagpur Municipal Corporation Employees Union, more than 70 water activists from Delhi, Assam, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Karnataka launched formation of a National Platform. After a marathon session the meeting passed a resolution declaring formation of NATIONAL PLATFORM AGAINST WATER PRIVATIZATION (NPAWP).The meeting also came out with a Nagpur Declaration, a policy statement of the NPAWP giving details about its visions and objectives in the context of people’s right to water (Copy attached).

In this meeting, a national coordination committee was also constituted which elected Shri S.A Naqvi of Citizens Front for Water Democracy (CFWD, Delhi) as the National Coordinator of NPAWP. Besides Mr. Naqvi, the others who constituted the National Coordination Committee include Shri Jammu Anand of NMC Municipal Union, Nagpur as Regional Coordinator for Western Zone; Smt. Nirmla Sharma of Jagriti Mahila Samiti (Delhi) as Regional Coordinator for Northern Zone; Shri Rajinder Prabhakar of Peoples Campaign on Right to Water (Karnataka) for Southern Zone; Shri Subrato Chakrabarti of Guwahati Sanmilita Nagarik Adhikar Suraksha Manacha for North Eastern Zone; Shri Saurabh Sinha of Inner Voice Foundation of Ballia for Eastern zone and Mr. Rahmat Rawat of Manthan (Badwani) as Regional Coordinator for Central Zone. Besides regional coordinators, the others who are part of the national coordination committee include Raman Kanan of Public Services International, Afsar Jafri of Focus on the Global South, Dr. A.K. Arun of Yuva Bharat, Akhil Gogoi of Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti, Ms Kiran Shaheen of Pani Hakk Abhiyan, Gaurav Diwedi of Manthan, Sanjay Sharma of Water Workers Allaince, Pranjal Dixshit of Mumbai and Vinay Baindur of Bangalore.

On 1st July, the National Platform against Water Privatization and the NMC Municipal Union staged a demonstration against water privatization in Nagpur and met with the Municipal Commissioner of Nagpur in his office and gave a memorandum demanding for the immediate termination of the contract with the Orange City Water. It also demanded for the remunicipalisation of the water supply and distribution in Nagpur. 

The national platform is a unique initiative to build solidarity among different movements and campaigns from India who are engaged in any activities related to water to ensure water as a common good and determine human rights to water. This national body of water activists also decided to extend all support to movements opposing dams, river diversions or river linking.

The fight against any form of water privatization will be the key agenda of the NATIONAL PLATFORM. It will help each other and seek strength from each other in this difficult time when democratic governments in the states have been sold out to corporations. The national platform will contact with different groups who are campaigning against water privatization in their cities to come together. They will share their experiences, documents and strategies to gain strength and knowledge from each other.

The NPAWP will soon initiate mass movement against government’s undemocratic moves to privatize and commodify water. The NPAWP decided to raise all issues relating to water like its environmental aspects, ecological concerns, dams, rivers etc and oppose all forms of water commercialization.

The NPAWP through a resolution rejected the National Water Policy of 2012 as well as the draft report issued recently by the Y.K. Alagh Committee, the National Water Framework Laws, which promotes privatization of water.

The NPAWP also declared the Uttrakhand disaster as man-made disaster and a result of callus and anti environment policies of the Central and the State Governments. It passed a resolution opposing such infrastructure development anywhere in India which compromises environmental concerns for the sake of growth and development.

The next meeting of the Platform will be organised in Delhi soon.

Thanks for covering this press briefing.

For any further information, please contact


S.A. Naqvi      Jammu Anand       Afsar Jafri




[1] International Financial Institutions, like the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank (ADB)