Re: [mpisgmedia] MCD (Amendment) Bill, 2005 (building-byelaws business)

Full Marks. U r right. H.U.Bijlani
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From: "Gita Dewan Verma" <mpisgplanner@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 12:04 AM
Subject: [mpisgmedia] MCD (Amendment) Bill, 2005 (building-byelaws business)


> The "Building byelaw reform" that Delhi Municipal
> Corporation has been carrying out since December 2003
> was referred by Delhi Government to Union Ministry of
> Home Affairs on 27 October 2005, as "Regulatory
> Framework for Building Regulation in Delhi". This
> includes a USAID-sponsored Bill to amend the MCD Act.
> The Bill proposes drastic changes in the framework for
> urban development and the relation between government,
> citizens and professionals and is consonant with
> recent FDI decisions, revised offer for WTO-GATS, etc,
> and in conflict with provisions of other laws and the
> Constitution. This note is about this Bill, of which
> the "building byelaw reform" is both creature and
> instrumentality and for nearly two years has also been
> smoke screen.
>
> In face of comprehensive consensus (that exists by
> fact of being publicly claimed and not having been
> publicly denied or decried) on "building byelaw
> reform" and USAID-sponsored legislation under that
> garb I am not inclined to defend my view that this
> scurrilous Bill not only needs to be scrapped but also
> calls for exemplary exercise of s.490 of MCD Act
> ("Dissolution of the Corporation: (1) If, in the
> opinion of the Central Government, the Corporation
> persistently makes default in the performance of the
> duties imposed on it by or under this Act or exceeds
> or abuses its powers, the Central Government may by an
> order published, together with a statement of reasons
> therefore, in the Official Gazette, dissolve the
> Corporation"). > I have sought information of
> procedure, if any, by which I might urge / inform
> Central Government opinion under s.490 <see>
>
> This note only points out the changes proposed and a
> few related points of law and facts.
>
> contd/-
> http://plan.architexturez.org/site/mpisg/p/051116
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