The major defaulters are the builders lobby all over
Maharashtra against whom no steps are taken with rampant
unauthorised constructions ,building regulations are violated in
complicity with Corporationsand Nagar Parishads who do not
ensure that the construction is in keeping with building regulations
While affordable housing as a policy has been ignored for
decades, with no low income and middle income housing
schemes proposed, apart from their being no policy of basic
housing,sanitation and water for those below the poverty line .
Welfare/subsidised housing should not be permitted to be sold
/alienated in any form . Similarly housing in government and
societies should not be permitted to be sold to third parties who
are not government employees.
There could be a surrender to an authority who should return
the original corpus of contribution with a reasonable addition as
deemed it, for reallocation .The Singapore public housing model
and other public housing models in other countries need
to be studied .
Niloufer Bhagwat
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From: eviction watch <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 8:18 PM
Dear all,
Greetings!
As many of us has feared, the state has taken to selective usage of clauses
in RAY. While the eligibility discussion and universalisation of basic
services are not being held, the Maharashtra govt already made amendments for
the punitive clause. What we demand is a punitive clause for those who are
responsible for building mass housing and are not doing it..
slum free city is an illusion in the present mode of development and it can
be achieved only through cohesion, bulldozing even the limited survival rights
of the urban poor.
Thursday, June 09, 2011 (+5:30GMT)
http://www.indlawnews.com/Newsdisplay.aspx?c05cc5e9-4404-46ae-8c69-e6c4bfaa9b4d
Maharashtra Government to introduce legislation to check unauthorised
structures
6/7/2011
7.6.2011 (UNI) Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan today said the
government would introduce a legislation soon to check the rampant growth of
unauthorised structures in the state.
He was speaking at a function here held to hand over keys to the allotees of
the tenemants under the BSUP programme in the city.
Also present on the occasion were Union Secretary in the Housing and Urban
Poverty Alleviation department Ms Kiran Dingra, Thane Mayor Ashok Vaity,
Guardian Minister Ganesh Naik, Minister for Tribal Development Rajendra Gavit
and the Legislative Council Deputy Speaker Vasant Davkhare among others.
Mr Chavan said the state government had already passed a law to fix the
responsibility of the unauthorised constructions on the ward officer and the
police officer of the area and the action to be taken by them.
The Chief Minister said this had been done as per the Model Law of Property
Rights for Slumdwellers suggested by the Centre and which was presently lying
with the President for a nod.
Under this law, the ward officer and local police will be responsible for any
unauthorised constructions in their area, he said and pointed that besides
Maharashtra, it will be adopted by the other states as well.
He said the officials cannot shirk their responsibility by saying that they
were not aware of the unauthorised constructions in their areas. They also
cannot ignore complaints from the elected representatives, he pointed.
Expressing his concern over the pace of urbanisation and the growth in the
size of population of Thane city in the next decade, he asked the planners not
to ignore the need for affordable housing of the economically backward and slum
dwellers.
After inspecting the housing scheme coming up at Kausa under the BSUP
programme of the Centre, Mr Chavan said a total of 10,000 tenements will be
given to the needy in the present scheme in Thane.
He said of the total population of 20 lakhs in the city, nearly 30 per cent
reside in slums that account for six lakhs population and two lakh tenements
were needed for them.
For this, the grassroots level officials and the elected representatives
should work jointly, he said.
'We should aim at making Thane a slum-free city and there is no paucity of
funds for the same. This will be done under the BSUP and the Rajiv Awas
Yojana,' he said.
In her speech, Ms Dingra said the city of Thane was growing at a rapid speed
and the Mayor and the other officials of the civic corporation should plan for
the future to provide better civic amenities.
Mr Vaity urged the Chief Minister to hold at least one meeting of the elected
representatives from Thane district to resolve the pending issues and the
issues that come up from time to time for the planned growth of the city. He
also submitted a memorandum enlisting more than a dozen demands to the Chief
Minister.
The Municipal Commissioner R A Rajeev gave details of the entire scheme and
the progress done so far. UNI
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Maju Varghese, YUVA, New Naigoan Municipal School, Hindamata, Dadar, Mumbai,
INDIA.
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Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal
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The UID project is going to do almost exactly the same thing which the
predecessors of Hitler did, else how is it that Germany always had the lists of
Jewish names even prior to the arrival of the Nazis? The Nazis got these lists
with the help of IBM which was in the 'census' business that included racial
census that entailed not only count the Jews but also identifying them. At the
United States Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, there is an exhibit of an IBM
Hollerith D-11 card sorting machine that was responsible for organising the
census of 1933 that first identified the Jews.
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