Delhi mayor orders survey to ascertain slum population
May 28th, 2009 - 8:46 pm ICT by IANS ( 7 comments )New Delhi, May 28 (IANS) Mayor Kanwar Sain Thursday pulled up the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) slum department “for sitting on files endlessly” and ordered a fresh survey of slum dwellers and encroachments in the national capital.
“Since 1994 there has been no survey of slum properties. So it is difficult to ascertain the number of slum dwellers and status of encroached public lands in Delhi.
“I have directed officers that they must immediately form a committee or team which will look into this work and report back to me with details in 15 days time,” Sain said.
On inspecting the slum and JJ (jhuggi-jhopadi) department offices, Sain found that files dated 2008 had not been processed or cleared.
“System of the file going to multiple people is very long. Encroachments are not even removed as a result of the files not being cleared. Slum encroachments on any government land - be it Delhi government, DDA, corporation land - should be ordered to be cleared immediately… else they’d become more difficult to remove over time,” Sain said.
“It is a fact that most of the people here are sitting idle working on files endlessly,” he added.
After detailed discussions with department officials including the additional commissioner R.D. Srivastava and others, Sain has asked them to simplify and cut short the cumbersome procedures to make the slum wing more “people-friendly”.
He added that during discussions officials spoke of working constraints hampering functioning like that of several positions not being filled up.
This, he said would be dealt with at the earliest adding that he would conduct fortnightly meetings with the department officials to address their grievances.
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October 7th, 2009 at 11:50 am
I think the present MAYOR did not have time to see his own web cite who is the present mayor of delhi ?
January 8th, 2010 at 5:38 pm
” The pathetic state of public toilets was highlighted by Shahana Sheikh, a final year student of economics at the Lady Sri Ram (LSR) College, who undertook a tour of slums and the outskirts of Delhi from May to July 2008.”
” “A man has options but a woman can’t urinate in the open as that is deemed ‘uncultured’. The issue of public toilets affects women the most, especially poor women,” Sheikh had said. ”
PLEASE SEE THE “S” BLOCK OF OKHLA INDUSTRIAL AREA PHASE II , NEW DELHI WHERE WOMEN OF SANJAY COLONY SLUM HAVE NO OPTION BUT TO USE 45 FT ROAD (INFRONT OF FACTORIES ) AS OPEN TOILET.
WITH THE HELP OF JAPANESE AID MCD HAS BUILD TOILET IN THE MIDDLE OF 45 FT ROAD IN THE “S” BLOCK OF OKHLA INDUSTRIAL AREA PHASE II NEW DELHI.NEEDLESS TO MENTION THE RIGHT OF WAY OF FACTORIES OF “S” BLOCK IS GIVEN LEAST IMPORTANCE BY MCD / DELHI GOVT.
May 14th, 2010 at 8:25 pm
honble mayor ji
ihave sent u so many e-mails prior to this but not even one hs been confrmd if u have no time pl depute some one or i volounteer my self for 2 hr to see the mails n sent concern deptt and then action taken report system didnt work
bmchopra
May 14th, 2010 at 9:31 pm
RESPECTED MAYOR JI
1 MAKE DELHI CLEAN N GREEN 2 ENCROACHMENT ON ROADS BE REMOVED 3 CYCLE RIKSHWA BE SENT TO RURAL AREA A SPACIAL NOTIFICATION BE ISSUED BY GOVT IN VIEW OF CWG 4ALL GOVT BLDGS BE REPAINTS ON YEARLY BASIS 5 ALL OPEN DRAINS BE COVERED 6 MAXIMUM TREES BE PLATED ON BOTH SIDES OF ROADS 7 SIGNAGE BE CLEARED ON DAILY BASIS
8 SAINTRY STAFF SHOULD IN UNIFORM 9 ALL SMALL DHABAS-RESTAURENTS-EATING JOINTS BE CHECHED IN VIEW OF CLEANLINESS LIKE IN EUROPE STYLE NO COMPROMISE ON QUALITY
MANY MORE
BMCHOPRA SR CITIZEN
9811372601
May 15th, 2010 at 12:07 am
mcd is collecting house tax from delhi worth croes for varrious works for delhi to maintain-mcd roads -tomaintain–parks –to prvides–pub- connvenince on the roads for public–to make more plants on roads side to save envoirenent in the city but all corprator take credit for own spending money as from their own pocket they r only intrested to display their name on road side this is duries of every mcc/mla to look after their area and get beautiful but corrouption is there just rs 10 is being spent on public developments against rs 100 given by the govt
pl mayor ji ask the mcc/mla to be honst only one term see the difference but who bother
think it serous and do some thing for development of delhi
bmchopra sr citizen
delhim 9811372601
May 13th, 2011 at 11:25 pm
HONBLE MAYOR MS ABBI PL SEE ALL PREVEIOUS MAILS SENT BY ALL CITIZN AND TRY TO RECTIFY THE SUGGESTION YOU MUST DAILY MAIL AND INVITE THE PROBLEMS ON LINE AND TRY TO SOLVE THEM BMCHOPRA SR CITIZN 09811372601
May 14th, 2011 at 3:08 pm
well i do not know about the present and the past mayor but general impression in the public is that generally uneducated persons joins politics , i m sorry i may be wrong.