---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: eviction watch <evictionwa...@yuvaindia.org> 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. <http://www.indlawnews.com/> 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 -- _____________________ Maju Varghese, YUVA, New Naigoan Municipal School, Hindamata, Dadar, Mumbai, INDIA. -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s 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. 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