In Court on 26.07.06:
HT:p.5: Notify hawking, no-hawking zones: SC
THE SUPREME Court on Wednesday directed the Municipal
Corporation of Delhi and New Delhi Municipal Council
to notify all hawking and no-hawking zones in their
respective areas as on today to facilitate
implementation of its order to make no-hawking zones
here free from hawkers/squatters.
A bench of justices B.P. Singh and Altmas Kabir,
however, clarified the order would remain operative
till a new scheme for hawkers is implemented...
---
In Jan-sunwayi on 26.07.06:
Special hawking zones to be created in Delhi
NEW DELHI: Union Urban Development Minister S. Jaipal
Reddy on Wednesday said Delhi would be developed as a
model city by creating special hawking zones ...
He also assured that the Centre would try and take
some steps for the welfare of vendors through its
ambitious Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal
Mission
Stating that solving the problems of hawkers and
vendors was a State subject and the Urban Development
Ministry could implement its projects in this
connection in Delhi only, the Union Minister said it
had been decided to conduct a scientific survey of
hawkers and vendors in Delhi by the Tata Institute of
Fundamental Research ...
Asserting that the Union Government was keen on
implementing the national policy for vendors announced
in January 2004, Mr. Reddy said the Delhi Laws
(Special Provisions) Act 2006 ... also talks about
addressing problems being faced by street vendors...
http://www.hindu.com/2006/07/27/stories/2006072726880300.htm
---
(one learned counsel was vigorously arguing for court
endorsement of the scientific-survey and agency, but
did not get it yet; perhaps after the sun-kaho our
mantris will make our authorities do what the ladies
want. In 2001 it was with jagmohan that sewa-nasvi
launched its national policy exercise, with manushi as
second fiddle with her pmo policy for delhi. In 2006
fiddling hierarchy seems to have changed. VasantKunj I
learn is to be a pilot project of the ladies. In 2003
when Tehkhand was first announced also VK was to be
one of 3 pilot projects. in 2000 when rajiv sethi
wanted to take off at sultangarhi VK nearly became
additional pilot for DUEIIP. must be the proximity to
airport)
--- Gita Dewan Verma <mpisgplanner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> recall the madhu kishwar lok-sunway in 01?
>
> madhu purnima kishwar jan-sunwayi tomorrow 26 july,
> kaamani audi 2pm-5pm
>
> (tomorrow forenoon is supreme court hearing of the
> policy matters in which manushi-sewa seem nicely in
> control by grace of MOUD)
>
> * The Jansunwayi panel would be chaired by Shri
> Jaipal
> Reddy, Hon'ble Minister, Urban Development Other
> panelists are: Mr. Ajay Maken, (Hon'ble Minister of
> State, Urban Development), Kumari Selja (Hon'b;e
> Minister of State, Poverty Alleviation), Mr. Farhad
> Suri, (Hon'ble Mayor of Delhi), Shri. Arjun
> Sengupta,
> (Chairman, Commission for Micro Enterprises), Mr.
> Ramesh Chauhan , (Bisleri International), Mr. Dilip
> Cherian, (Business consultant and columnist) Ms
> Swati
> Ramanathan, (Janaagraha, Bangalore), Smt. Renuka
> Vishwanathan, (Secretary, Ministry of Rural
> Development), Prof. K.C. Sivaramakrishnan (Centre
> for
> Policy Research) Ms. Tavleen Singh, (writer and
> columnist), Mr. P.K. Malhotra, (Member Secretary,
> National Commission for Micro Enterprises), Shri
> Praveen Khandelwal (President, Delhi Traders
> Association), Mr.Rajeev Sethi, (Chairman, Asian
> Heritage Foundation) and Dr.Syeda Hameed, (Member,
> Planning Commission)*
>
> and:
>
> *Therefore, policy and law reforms for street
> vendors
> needs to be undertaken with speed and determination.
> It needs to be made an integral part of the
> Jawaharlal
> Nehru Urban Renewal Mission*
>
>
> ===
> soap re-cap:
>
> ===
>
> Manushi/Issue 125 (July-August 2001)
>
> ...we began the process of organised lobbying early
> this year. On April 27-28, the first in a series of
> conferences around the theme Laws, Liberty and
> Livelihood was organised jointly by CSDS and
> manushi.
> The second day was devoted to a Dialogue of rickshaw
> pullers and vendors with select policy makers and
> representatives of the media...
> On June 16,imanushi submitted a brief report of our
> findings to the Central Vigilance Commissioner, Sh.
> N.
> Vittal. He promptly sent off letters to Delhi?s
> Chief
> Minister, Municipal Commissioner and the Police
> Commissioner recommending that the license-quota
> regime operating in these two sectors be dismantled
> since it only bred corruption, as exposed by manushi
> study. This missive from the CVC received a fair
> amount of press publicity.
> On June 25, manushi organised of Lok Sunwayi of
> street
> vendors presided over Sh. by N. Vittal. Other
> panelists included Sh. Kuldeep Nayar, (M.P Rajya
> Sabha), Sh. S.P Shukla, (Deputy Secretary General,
> FICCI), Ms Rani Jethmalani, (Advocate, Supreme
> Court),
> Dr. Vijay Sheel Kumar, (Neurosurgeon, Apollo
> Hospital), Dr. Dinesh Mohan, (Road Safety Expert,
> IIT
> Delhi) and Ms. Tavleen Singh, (columnist).
> ... Just when we had begun to despair, came this
> pleasant surprise in the form of a nine page long
> document received at manushi from the Prime
> Minister?s
> Office on the morning of August 28th, 2001. It
> endorses the findings of the manushi study, "How the
> License Quota Raid Raj Impacts the Urban Poor" as
> well
> as facts that emerged through Lok Sunwayi of people
> involved in street hawking and rickshaw pulling. The
> document sent by the PMOs contains a letter to
> Delhi?s
> Lt Governor advising him that the Government of
> Delhi
> must address the task of policy reform with regard
> to
> street hawkers and cycle rickshaw operators in Delhi
> with urgency.
>
>
> Manushi/Issue 128 (January-February 2002)
>
> Our first breakthrough came with the Additional
> Commissioner of MCD Mr. Ramesh Negi, agreeing to
> visit
> Sewa Nagar on December 19, 2001 to get an idea of
> our
> plans and the process we had set into motion. Since
> all our meetings at Sewa Nagar start with Jhadu Puja
> ,
> Mr. Negi also joined us in the worship of the sacred
> broom...
>
>
> Manushi/ Issue 130 (May-June 2002)
>
> The most positive development, however, was the
> coming
> of the new Municipal Commissioner, Mr. Rakesh Mehta.
> He is respected as an upright and honest official,
> with a desire to make things better. In our very
> first
> meeting we were able to establish a good rapport. He
> showed great excitement at our proposal and agreed
> to
> give us the go ahead at once...
> Mr. Mehta?s colleagues tried their best to persuade
> him that by giving us the permission to improve and
> beautify the Sewa Nagar and other hawker markets, he
> would be going against Court orders and might invite
> a
> jail term on himself for "contempt of court"!
> However,
> we persevered with Mr. Mehta because we were
> confident
> that a person of his integrity would see reason. Our
> negotiations are still on and it seems likely that
> he
> will give us a "go ahead", at least for Sewa Nagar,
> and hopefully for more markets, if the Sewa Nagar
> experiment succeeds.
>
>
> Manushi/ Issue 135 (March-April 2003):
>
> Fortunately for us, Mr Rakesh Mehta took charge of
> the
> Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) from Mr
> Aggarwal
> in 2002. Before him, the only officer who till then
> had given us a good response was Mr Negi...
> His first challenge was to get the proposal passed
> by
> the Standing Council of the Municipal Corporation
> where he faced tremendous opposition from
> corporators
> of all political hues. Even when they reluctantly
> approved the model market proposal, both BJP and
> Congress corporators made common cause with one
> another in opposing the involvement of manushi ...
> Mr
> Mehta did not at that stage make an issue of who was
> to implement the scheme and simply got the project
> cleared through the Municipal Council...
> Mr Mehta was told by his own officials that he would
> be committing "contempt of court" (an offence
> punishable with imprisonment of up to six months) if
> he allowed the two pilot projects to come through...
> Therefore, his next challenge was to get the Supreme
> Court to put its stamp of approval on the model
> market
> project. He chose the best possible lawyers for the
> case and allowed manushi to work closely with them.
> Mr
> Mukul Rohatagi was assisted by Sanjeev Sen in the
> case...
> ...in order to blunt the hostility of the local
> Congress Corporator of Sewa Nagar, we decided to get
> in touch with the Delhi Pradesh Congress President,
> Subhash Sharma, whom I had known since my student
> union days... his response was : "This is the first
> time my sister has asked me for anything. Take it
> that
> this will be done." ... Within three days, he
> arranged
> for me to meet the Chairman of the Standing
> Committee,
> Mr. Ram Babu Sharma, who had all this time serious
> misgivings about our pilot project. But once he was
> told that Subhash Sharma had adopted it, Ram Babu
> also
> assumed a brotherly role. We got a good glimpse into
> the working of our system when, during our first
> meeting, Ram Babu openly declared : Behenji, we are
> very clear on this. When we don?t want to do
> something
> we know how to obstruct it, even if orders come from
> the Supreme Court or the Party High Command. At such
> times, there is no point citing rules and court
> orders
> to us. But when we want to do something, we put
> aside
>
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HT:p.5: Notify hawking, no-hawking zones: SC
THE SUPREME Court on Wednesday directed the Municipal
Corporation of Delhi and New Delhi Municipal Council
to notify all hawking and no-hawking zones in their
respective areas as on today to facilitate
implementation of its order to make no-hawking zones
here free from hawkers/squatters.
A bench of justices B.P. Singh and Altmas Kabir,
however, clarified the order would remain operative
till a new scheme for hawkers is implemented...
---
In Jan-sunwayi on 26.07.06:
Special hawking zones to be created in Delhi
NEW DELHI: Union Urban Development Minister S. Jaipal
Reddy on Wednesday said Delhi would be developed as a
model city by creating special hawking zones ...
He also assured that the Centre would try and take
some steps for the welfare of vendors through its
ambitious Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal
Mission
Stating that solving the problems of hawkers and
vendors was a State subject and the Urban Development
Ministry could implement its projects in this
connection in Delhi only, the Union Minister said it
had been decided to conduct a scientific survey of
hawkers and vendors in Delhi by the Tata Institute of
Fundamental Research ...
Asserting that the Union Government was keen on
implementing the national policy for vendors announced
in January 2004, Mr. Reddy said the Delhi Laws
(Special Provisions) Act 2006 ... also talks about
addressing problems being faced by street vendors...
http://www.hindu.com/2006/07/27/stories/2006072726880300.htm
---
(one learned counsel was vigorously arguing for court
endorsement of the scientific-survey and agency, but
did not get it yet; perhaps after the sun-kaho our
mantris will make our authorities do what the ladies
want. In 2001 it was with jagmohan that sewa-nasvi
launched its national policy exercise, with manushi as
second fiddle with her pmo policy for delhi. In 2006
fiddling hierarchy seems to have changed. VasantKunj I
learn is to be a pilot project of the ladies. In 2003
when Tehkhand was first announced also VK was to be
one of 3 pilot projects. in 2000 when rajiv sethi
wanted to take off at sultangarhi VK nearly became
additional pilot for DUEIIP. must be the proximity to
airport)
--- Gita Dewan Verma <mpisgplanner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> recall the madhu kishwar lok-sunway in 01?
>
> madhu purnima kishwar jan-sunwayi tomorrow 26 july,
> kaamani audi 2pm-5pm
>
> (tomorrow forenoon is supreme court hearing of the
> policy matters in which manushi-sewa seem nicely in
> control by grace of MOUD)
>
> * The Jansunwayi panel would be chaired by Shri
> Jaipal
> Reddy, Hon'ble Minister, Urban Development Other
> panelists are: Mr. Ajay Maken, (Hon'ble Minister of
> State, Urban Development), Kumari Selja (Hon'b;e
> Minister of State, Poverty Alleviation), Mr. Farhad
> Suri, (Hon'ble Mayor of Delhi), Shri. Arjun
> Sengupta,
> (Chairman, Commission for Micro Enterprises), Mr.
> Ramesh Chauhan , (Bisleri International), Mr. Dilip
> Cherian, (Business consultant and columnist) Ms
> Swati
> Ramanathan, (Janaagraha, Bangalore), Smt. Renuka
> Vishwanathan, (Secretary, Ministry of Rural
> Development), Prof. K.C. Sivaramakrishnan (Centre
> for
> Policy Research) Ms. Tavleen Singh, (writer and
> columnist), Mr. P.K. Malhotra, (Member Secretary,
> National Commission for Micro Enterprises), Shri
> Praveen Khandelwal (President, Delhi Traders
> Association), Mr.Rajeev Sethi, (Chairman, Asian
> Heritage Foundation) and Dr.Syeda Hameed, (Member,
> Planning Commission)*
>
> and:
>
> *Therefore, policy and law reforms for street
> vendors
> needs to be undertaken with speed and determination.
> It needs to be made an integral part of the
> Jawaharlal
> Nehru Urban Renewal Mission*
>
>
> ===
> soap re-cap:
>
> ===
>
> Manushi/Issue 125 (July-August 2001)
>
> ...we began the process of organised lobbying early
> this year. On April 27-28, the first in a series of
> conferences around the theme Laws, Liberty and
> Livelihood was organised jointly by CSDS and
> manushi.
> The second day was devoted to a Dialogue of rickshaw
> pullers and vendors with select policy makers and
> representatives of the media...
> On June 16,imanushi submitted a brief report of our
> findings to the Central Vigilance Commissioner, Sh.
> N.
> Vittal. He promptly sent off letters to Delhi?s
> Chief
> Minister, Municipal Commissioner and the Police
> Commissioner recommending that the license-quota
> regime operating in these two sectors be dismantled
> since it only bred corruption, as exposed by manushi
> study. This missive from the CVC received a fair
> amount of press publicity.
> On June 25, manushi organised of Lok Sunwayi of
> street
> vendors presided over Sh. by N. Vittal. Other
> panelists included Sh. Kuldeep Nayar, (M.P Rajya
> Sabha), Sh. S.P Shukla, (Deputy Secretary General,
> FICCI), Ms Rani Jethmalani, (Advocate, Supreme
> Court),
> Dr. Vijay Sheel Kumar, (Neurosurgeon, Apollo
> Hospital), Dr. Dinesh Mohan, (Road Safety Expert,
> IIT
> Delhi) and Ms. Tavleen Singh, (columnist).
> ... Just when we had begun to despair, came this
> pleasant surprise in the form of a nine page long
> document received at manushi from the Prime
> Minister?s
> Office on the morning of August 28th, 2001. It
> endorses the findings of the manushi study, "How the
> License Quota Raid Raj Impacts the Urban Poor" as
> well
> as facts that emerged through Lok Sunwayi of people
> involved in street hawking and rickshaw pulling. The
> document sent by the PMOs contains a letter to
> Delhi?s
> Lt Governor advising him that the Government of
> Delhi
> must address the task of policy reform with regard
> to
> street hawkers and cycle rickshaw operators in Delhi
> with urgency.
>
>
> Manushi/Issue 128 (January-February 2002)
>
> Our first breakthrough came with the Additional
> Commissioner of MCD Mr. Ramesh Negi, agreeing to
> visit
> Sewa Nagar on December 19, 2001 to get an idea of
> our
> plans and the process we had set into motion. Since
> all our meetings at Sewa Nagar start with Jhadu Puja
> ,
> Mr. Negi also joined us in the worship of the sacred
> broom...
>
>
> Manushi/ Issue 130 (May-June 2002)
>
> The most positive development, however, was the
> coming
> of the new Municipal Commissioner, Mr. Rakesh Mehta.
> He is respected as an upright and honest official,
> with a desire to make things better. In our very
> first
> meeting we were able to establish a good rapport. He
> showed great excitement at our proposal and agreed
> to
> give us the go ahead at once...
> Mr. Mehta?s colleagues tried their best to persuade
> him that by giving us the permission to improve and
> beautify the Sewa Nagar and other hawker markets, he
> would be going against Court orders and might invite
> a
> jail term on himself for "contempt of court"!
> However,
> we persevered with Mr. Mehta because we were
> confident
> that a person of his integrity would see reason. Our
> negotiations are still on and it seems likely that
> he
> will give us a "go ahead", at least for Sewa Nagar,
> and hopefully for more markets, if the Sewa Nagar
> experiment succeeds.
>
>
> Manushi/ Issue 135 (March-April 2003):
>
> Fortunately for us, Mr Rakesh Mehta took charge of
> the
> Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) from Mr
> Aggarwal
> in 2002. Before him, the only officer who till then
> had given us a good response was Mr Negi...
> His first challenge was to get the proposal passed
> by
> the Standing Council of the Municipal Corporation
> where he faced tremendous opposition from
> corporators
> of all political hues. Even when they reluctantly
> approved the model market proposal, both BJP and
> Congress corporators made common cause with one
> another in opposing the involvement of manushi ...
> Mr
> Mehta did not at that stage make an issue of who was
> to implement the scheme and simply got the project
> cleared through the Municipal Council...
> Mr Mehta was told by his own officials that he would
> be committing "contempt of court" (an offence
> punishable with imprisonment of up to six months) if
> he allowed the two pilot projects to come through...
> Therefore, his next challenge was to get the Supreme
> Court to put its stamp of approval on the model
> market
> project. He chose the best possible lawyers for the
> case and allowed manushi to work closely with them.
> Mr
> Mukul Rohatagi was assisted by Sanjeev Sen in the
> case...
> ...in order to blunt the hostility of the local
> Congress Corporator of Sewa Nagar, we decided to get
> in touch with the Delhi Pradesh Congress President,
> Subhash Sharma, whom I had known since my student
> union days... his response was : "This is the first
> time my sister has asked me for anything. Take it
> that
> this will be done." ... Within three days, he
> arranged
> for me to meet the Chairman of the Standing
> Committee,
> Mr. Ram Babu Sharma, who had all this time serious
> misgivings about our pilot project. But once he was
> told that Subhash Sharma had adopted it, Ram Babu
> also
> assumed a brotherly role. We got a good glimpse into
> the working of our system when, during our first
> meeting, Ram Babu openly declared : Behenji, we are
> very clear on this. When we don?t want to do
> something
> we know how to obstruct it, even if orders come from
> the Supreme Court or the Party High Command. At such
> times, there is no point citing rules and court
> orders
> to us. But when we want to do something, we put
> aside
>
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