Dear Mr. Roy,
Greetings!!
For all the time I have been following this group & have been a passive member, have seen & witnessed good amount of advices, views, opinions both constructive & otherwise as well.
I am of the view that, the expertise which groups like HJ have is tremendous & should be optimally utilised for the benefit of the group & the nation at large.
My query came out of a genuine challenge that the residents of Raunak Park & Patlipadha Gaothan both are facing jointly.
Here, it would be appropriate to update you that Raunak Park is a middle-higher middle class Resicomplex & Patlipadha Gaothan is the village that is in existence for hundred of years.
Residents of Raunak Park & of the Patlipadha Gaothan's original residents are both inconvenienced by this reservation.
Primarily it is the residents of the Gaothan who have been resisting the new people from outside trying to encroach upon the land parcel.
This change was brought about keeping the builders interest in mind who may want to buy out the village & construct buildings on the same & handout low cost, free land small flats to the villagers with the money for their land. Unfortunately this has not worked out with the interested Builder due to his offer price to villagers.
But, now that the villagers are not ready to sell their land & are rebuilding their own houses using their personal funds or funds provided by Microcredit SHGs working in the area, this open land is being encroached by people from outside. We got the builder's labourer camps on the ground cleared through TMC intervention Five years back.
What we want is to clear & demark the ground for kids to have a play ground or a Nana Naani Park which can be either maintained by TMC/Apex Body/ Coordination Committee.
It is not my personal interest & fortunately I am not so economically endowed that I may want to keep the land for myself to do something in future.
My objective is to get this wrong demarcation changed to necessary demarcation & for kids & us to have an open/green ground.
If that seems to be an attempt to show my middle class approach, I would rather have more of it.
If that is my personal agenda, I would for sure pursue it.
What I would urge you is to help us by giving us advice on a way ahead legally & a town planners perspective on how can we help all these people make these amendments.
Hope I have been able to appeal to all members for help too.
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 09:32:11 +0530
Subject: Re: [HumJanenge] First Time: Need Help!