[mpisgmedia] school-walas, heritage-walas and babies that died in Bawana

I caught the NDTV report on shortage of schools in
Bawana, with Education Minister Arvinder Singh Lovely
(also CABE member) admitting there is shortage. CM
visit last year, however, had found shortage only of
crematoria and graveyards. And last summer children
evicted from Pushta died in Bawana because of poor
sanitation and no medical facilities.

We have CVC reference and GNCTD forwardings and NAC
forwardings and President Secretariat forwardings, all
also included in Public Notice responses purportedly
duly considered and summarily rejected to regularise
the illegal IT Park constructed on the riverbed in
contempt of same order in name of which Pushta was
cleared (and after children were sent to die in Bawana
their tented school was upgraded to porta-cabins and
gifted to in-house NGO of multi-national Action-Aid to
run round-the-clock night-shelter). There was no
specific court order for Pushta evictions in 2004,
only media hype about court orders. There were court
orders for school buses for children taking exams and
school admissions, but there was no hype about those
and they were not complied with despite
requests/complaints. Bawana is illegal and Pushta
evictions were illegal.

Currently, next to the illegal IT Park 15 Ha of
riverbed that DMRC does not need for next 15 years are
on offer to crorepati firms for recreation (though
DMRC moved court in December 2004 for directions for
encroachment removal for urgent public utility work
thereabouts and, in any case, has no authority to make
such offers and is under notice to reply on what it
has already done on the site admittedly illegally).

Today heritage-walas had gathered in IIC to crib about
DMRC -- for making elevated metro corridor about which
they lately started fussing with Qutb. F-Zone Plan of
1998 clearly stipulates underground metro corridor
near Qutb and recognises Mehrauli Archaeological Park
and casts upon heritage-walas including INTACH
responsibility for its management, ie, chaps currently
cribbing about what DMRC is proposing are the same who
should have given it timely advice before it spent
public money on survey and design. In PIL of 2003 from
Mahipalpur DMRC is a respondent in view of F-Zone
imperatives. Mahipalpur is 400 years old,
co-petitioner in MPISG schools PIL and had objected on
IT Park Public Notice in view of historic ridge-river
connections with Pushta cultivator communities facing
evictions and of eviction to Bawana in July 2004 from
Mahipalpur lands to make way for Biodiversity Park (in
which sewage from Vasant Kunj is being discharged,
after being diverted from historical Mahipalpur Hauz
engineered by Tughlaq, where commercial complex is
proposed, identical illegality as IT Park and equally
unopposed by heritage-walas who are busy with their
so-called Biodiversity Park helping sell-well Vasant
Kunj Malls and their Sultangarhi Archaeological Park
helping sell-well Sultangarhi mega-housing, etc)

Amidst ooze pretending to be their school news, piety
pretending to save the past for them, IT pretending to
be their world-class future and all such lies, the
truth remains that babies died in Bawana due to
illegalities and the guilty have not been punished.

22/07/05


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