Re: {Illegal Garbage Dump} Gurgaon residents demand fully empowered civic body

[dev chopra]

Dear Sarvadaman Oberoi ji and Friends in GURM:

Kudos to you and the rest of the GURM Core Group for taking this on. The process on Sunday was needed and must be improved upon if we mean business and have the staying power.
To promote advocacy, planning, decision making, implementation and monitoring the State's intention, now onwards & to impact it we must ACT..

Some immediate thoughts BUT not to be verbose:
One: there must be greater discipline on use of time -- start and closure.
Two: focus be maintained & key issues get highlighted & the next steps. Three: can GURM operate from say Rathee ji's office --one corner/table?
Four: funding --those who support provide an agreed amount, every month?
Five: volags & NGOs crop up then "die" natural deaths --GURM must LIVE.
Six: we are ALL a divided house and the Govt. knows that and makes hay!
Seven: GURM must remain a CORE GROUP with a convenor, only--avoid EGOs!
Eight: next Meet-be focussed, seek specific outcomes, setup a Sectt.
Nine: must learn from G-Block-Phase I dlf on disciplined advocacy, etc.
Ten: less words, more action, GURM needs a computer/sectt. & follow up...

I hope I am clear -- lets act & follow through & stand by 1 or 2 or 3 objectives and not disappear as most NGOs do.
Who do I make my monthly contribution to and what should it be?
Dev Chopra
M-9810338049
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--- On Tue, 2/6/09, Sarvadaman Oberoi <mob...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> From: Sarvadaman Oberoi <mob...@yahoo.co.uk>
> Subject: {Illegal Garbage Dump} Gurgaon residents demand fully empowered civic body
> To: unig...@yahoogroups.co.in, illegal-ga...@googlegroups.com
> Date: Tuesday, 2 June, 2009, 2:39 AM
> Kindly see article published in
> The Tribune below.
>
> Regards.
>
> Sarvadaman Oberoi
> Tower 1 Flat 1102, The Uniworld Garden,
> Sohna Road, Gurgaon 122018 Haryana INDIA
> Mobile: +919818768349 Tele: +911244227522
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> email: mob...@yahoo.co.uk
>  
> The
> Tribune
> Monday,
> June 1, 2009, Chandigarh, India
> Gurgaon
> residents demand fully empowered civic
> body ‘Multiplicity
> of agencies cause of all development problems’
> Gurgaon, May 31
>
> With the Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG) knocking
> doors of residents for collecting taxes, the citizens are
> demanding a fully empowered municipal body. They are even
> ready to come on roads to get their rights.
>
>  
> They
> formed a resolution in this regard at a meeting held by the
> Gurgaon Unified Residents Movement (GURM) here on Sunday.
> Two large residents’ bodies—Gurgaon Citizens’ Council
> (GCC) and the Federation of RWAs of HUDA Sectors (FORWA)
> spearhead GURM. About 150 DLF residents attended the
> meeting. A number of resident welfare associations, civil
> society organizations, non-government organizations and
> citizens are also supporting the movement.
>  
> The
> members of GURM say that the Haryana state government
> constituted MCG in September 2008, but the first elections
> to the municipal council have not been held even after six
> months.
>  
> They
> mentioned that an area of 162 km has been earmarked to
> fall under the corporation, which includes the old city as
> well as all developer colonies. However, the 35-odd new
> sectors that had been planned for the development under the
> Gurgaon- Manesar 2021 Master Plan have not yet been given to
> the MCG.
>  
> “Multiplicity
> of agencies has been at the root of all development problems
> in cities,” said retired Major Gen Satbir Singh, senior
> advisor with the core committee of GURM and a member of
> Citizens Task Force, West Gurgaon.
> “For effective
> results, infrastructure planning as well development and
> maintenance functions must remain with one agency. It is
> also easier for citizens to deal with a single agency, not
> multiple,” he added.
>  
> Advocate T K
> Malik affirmed that the government would not listen to them.
> “We need to come together on roads and then only we can
> achieve our target,” he said.
>  
> “Among the 18
> functions granted to the municipal corporation under the
> 74th amendment, urban planning, including town planning is
> at number one while public health and sanitation is at
> number six,” claimed Col S.S. Oberoi, another core member
> of GURM.
>  
> Property tax and
> other forms of taxes on services are the major source of
> revenue for the MCG. However, GURM strongly feels that MCG
> has no right to collect taxes till 100 per cent development
> has been carried out under the corporation area.
>
>  
> “About Rs
> 3,000 crore has been collected as external development
> charges (EDC) from the residents, but the state of
> infrastructure development in the city shows inadequacy in
> investment. We want this fund to be transferred to the MCG
> or a development authority based in Gurgaon,” said R.S.
> Rathee, core member of GURM and president of GCC.
>
>  
> “We want a
> development authority in Gurgaon with full planning and
> implementation powers. We want our MCG to be a fully
> empowered body, granted all 18 powers under the constitution
> and not just end up as yet another tax collecting and
> sanitation agency,” Rathee told The Tribune.
>
> The
> residents also want to seek out the registration of
> voters’ card before municipal council elections.
>
>  
> Prem
> Sablok of GURM said, “Names of thousands of urban voters,
> including my family, were found missing from the final
> voters’ list drawn up for the current Lok Sabha elections.
> This will have a direct impact on the results of the
> municipal elections in the city and all future elections.
> The Chief Election Commissioner and the Haryana state
> election commission should check the mistake.”
>
>  
> “Many
> residents from HUDA sectors have also complained of missing
> names,” affirmed Dharam Sagar of the Federation of
> Resident Welfare Associations of HUDA sectors (FORWA) and
> member of GURM core committee.
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