On the Spot - Tavleen Singh
Living at the mercy of the merciless
Thursday, August 03, 2006 10:30:41 IST
It is wrong for hawkers to be at the mercy of corrupt
municipal officials and policemen
In an auditorium in Delhi, usually filled with the
sounds of classical music and dance, I heard the
voices, last week, of India?s poorest, bravest, most
exploited citizens. On the stage of the Kamani
Auditorium sat the Minister of Urban Affairs, Jaipal
Reddy, and he listened with full attention to the
heart breaking stories of injustice and brutality that
came from an audience of pavement hawkers and street
vendors that had come from all over India to attend
the latest public hearing organised by Manushi... ? A
government that claims to have come to power on the
votes of the ?aam aadmi? needs to start putting its
money where its mouth is. Are you listening Soniaji?
Are you listening Mr. Prime Minister?
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| ofc they are listening, lady!
| how else did reddy come sit on dais for khaas ladies
| while baijal failed to appear in crt for aam
hawkers?
| how else does CVC ref for aam hawkers get lost in
PMO
| while khaas ladies letters become PM policy ?
| how else does aam hawkers' RTIappeal languish in CIC
| while CCS that adulates khaas ladies is CIC monitor?
| khaas log see khaas ladies as proxy for aam aadmi;
| the phenomenon is called deepening-democracy.
| (I believe it used to be called empowering-ladies)
--- Gita Dewan Verma <mpisgplanner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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....
>
> ---
> In Jan-sunwayi on 26.07.06:
> Special hawking zones to be created in Delhi
>
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)
>
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Living at the mercy of the merciless
Thursday, August 03, 2006 10:30:41 IST
It is wrong for hawkers to be at the mercy of corrupt
municipal officials and policemen
In an auditorium in Delhi, usually filled with the
sounds of classical music and dance, I heard the
voices, last week, of India?s poorest, bravest, most
exploited citizens. On the stage of the Kamani
Auditorium sat the Minister of Urban Affairs, Jaipal
Reddy, and he listened with full attention to the
heart breaking stories of injustice and brutality that
came from an audience of pavement hawkers and street
vendors that had come from all over India to attend
the latest public hearing organised by Manushi... ? A
government that claims to have come to power on the
votes of the ?aam aadmi? needs to start putting its
money where its mouth is. Are you listening Soniaji?
Are you listening Mr. Prime Minister?
http://www.cybernoon.com/DisplayArticle.asp?section=fromthepress&subsection=editorials&xfile=August2006_onthespot_standard168&child=onthespot
| ofc they are listening, lady!
| how else did reddy come sit on dais for khaas ladies
| while baijal failed to appear in crt for aam
hawkers?
| how else does CVC ref for aam hawkers get lost in
PMO
| while khaas ladies letters become PM policy ?
| how else does aam hawkers' RTIappeal languish in CIC
| while CCS that adulates khaas ladies is CIC monitor?
| khaas log see khaas ladies as proxy for aam aadmi;
| the phenomenon is called deepening-democracy.
| (I believe it used to be called empowering-ladies)
--- Gita Dewan Verma <mpisgplanner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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....
>
> ---
> In Jan-sunwayi on 26.07.06:
> Special hawking zones to be created in Delhi
>
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)
>
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