MPISG IS DEAD. LONG LIVE MPISG!
On Mon, 08 Jan 2007 Gita Dewan Verma wrote :
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>mpisg 2000-2006
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>[post on behalf of mpisg conveners]
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>master plan implementation support group, mpisg, has
>decided to wind up
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>mpisg started from a research method to document MPD-2001
>revision as part of a larger chronicle of transitions in planning and grew into
>a synergy platform for groups of ordinary citizens to pursue their MPD
>entitlements by due processes open to all ordinary citizens. a large amount of
>work emanated from mpisg. as of now, no pending matter is being dropped. all
>internal and professional contracts have been suspended so mpisg constituents
>can re-negotiate them without restrictions that came with synergy and
>re-organise if and as they wish. (the decision to wind up is really the
>decision of mpisg conveners and their steno-cum-planner, all of whom are or
>will soon be 50-ish, to retire to pastimes befitting their age).
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>the obvious reason for deciding to wind up is imminent
>notification of MPD-2021.
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>mpisg had responded to MPD-2021 public notice with
>detailed objections to various chapters showing how exactly they abandon
>entitlements and solutions to legislate problems to suit the alliance of interests
>among governments that neglected to enforce entitlements, realty interests in
>the land meant for solutions, and the organized-civil-society edifice that
>thrives on problems. mpisg considers MPD-2021 a mistress plan set up by this
>alliance that is expanding in mission-mode: in delhi it has set JNURM and SEZ
>Act 2005 rolling, enacted the Delhi Laws (Special Provisions) Act 2006 to chase
>the USAID-sponsored MCD Bill, forced into MPD-2001 changes that strike at the
>basis of its development code and land use based regulation. The manner in
>which sealing and demolition drives were deployed to convey inevitability about
>the MPD-2021 to make problems intractable is instructive (also for those
>watching the current goings-on in, say, West Bengal or by way of the bright
>candle-lightings of the path to police reforms).
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>the real reason for mpisg
>decision to wind up is that mpisg has only ordinary citizens.
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>mpisg has always had few successes and many distresses.
>the best of 2006 were the Arjun Camp judgment, some CIC decisions and a few
>stalling successes. the worst were lawless evictions and some personal attacks.
>at a different level, the worst was recurrent glimpses of atrophy in our
>systems (besides anomie or what some prefer to call invisible-hand in our polity),
>leading to the recurrent idea that ordinary citizens might as well take a rest
>while the alliance cuts its deals and completes its takeover. then there were
>two amusing developments at end of 2006: one, we learned civil-society bigwigs
>have launched a new-delhi-people-alliance to make master plan and a well-wisher
>said we better wind up before we get mistaken for that privatize-planning
>affair. two, sibling synergy-platform in uttaranchal issued curtain-call after
>proper business enterprise was visited by bigwig ngo wanting to give prize to
>call it local-community-dvpt-effort and, after booting the ngo out for
>temerity, the business-community learned state had already given itself prize
>for same.
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>in 2007, besides winding up, we hope to gear up for reformed
>ordinary-citizenship:
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>
>
>
>
>we figure there are two types of reforms being pushed in
>mission-mode: the core ones for transition from land use based regulation to
>land ownership based one (for which statutory planning is being subverted in
>favour of private/participatory planning) and ancillary ones for data and for
>disclosure and participation laws. we have extensively engaged, besides on MPD,
>also on RTI (in 2006) and on the Bhagidari program (since 2000) in delhi. so we
>are able to visualize what might be. we expect that:
>
>
>* there will be no development law and hence no
>entitlements or solutions in law and no statutory duties owed in development
>for ordinary citizens to invoke
>
>
>* there will be shifting goal-posts, with organized
>cso/ngo empowered to shift them in private/participatory planning in which
>ordinary citizens will have no separate say
>
>
>* by participation laws cso/ngo will dominate
>decision-making as well as media and courts while atrophied local bodies will
>reduce to their data bankers and independence of the professions and populism
>in politics will get redefined
>
>
>* the ordinary citizen will have the right to elect
>representatives to do what cso-ngo tell (and experts, media and courts echo)
>and the right to know (or, rather, to ask)
>
>
>
>
>
>we figure that practicing ordinary-citizenship in times to
>come will thus hinge on duties under participation and disclosure laws. for
>practice (and also because we figure things could be less confusing / invisible
>if cso-ngo are the only people-representatives and the actual / invisible
>decision-makers are dragged into the purview of RTI), we are mulling two clubs:
>(a) refuse-to-vote and (b) did-you-RTI-today.
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>happy 2007.
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On Mon, 08 Jan 2007 Gita Dewan Verma wrote :
>
>
>mpisg 2000-2006
>
>
>
>
>
>[post on behalf of mpisg conveners]
>
>
>
>
>
>master plan implementation support group, mpisg, has
>decided to wind up
>
>
>
>
>
>mpisg started from a research method to document MPD-2001
>revision as part of a larger chronicle of transitions in planning and grew into
>a synergy platform for groups of ordinary citizens to pursue their MPD
>entitlements by due processes open to all ordinary citizens. a large amount of
>work emanated from mpisg. as of now, no pending matter is being dropped. all
>internal and professional contracts have been suspended so mpisg constituents
>can re-negotiate them without restrictions that came with synergy and
>re-organise if and as they wish. (the decision to wind up is really the
>decision of mpisg conveners and their steno-cum-planner, all of whom are or
>will soon be 50-ish, to retire to pastimes befitting their age).
>
>
>
>
>
>the obvious reason for deciding to wind up is imminent
>notification of MPD-2021.
>
>
>
>
>
>mpisg had responded to MPD-2021 public notice with
>detailed objections to various chapters showing how exactly they abandon
>entitlements and solutions to legislate problems to suit the alliance of interests
>among governments that neglected to enforce entitlements, realty interests in
>the land meant for solutions, and the organized-civil-society edifice that
>thrives on problems. mpisg considers MPD-2021 a mistress plan set up by this
>alliance that is expanding in mission-mode: in delhi it has set JNURM and SEZ
>Act 2005 rolling, enacted the Delhi Laws (Special Provisions) Act 2006 to chase
>the USAID-sponsored MCD Bill, forced into MPD-2001 changes that strike at the
>basis of its development code and land use based regulation. The manner in
>which sealing and demolition drives were deployed to convey inevitability about
>the MPD-2021 to make problems intractable is instructive (also for those
>watching the current goings-on in, say, West Bengal or by way of the bright
>candle-lightings of the path to police reforms).
>
>
>
>
>
>the real reason for mpisg
>decision to wind up is that mpisg has only ordinary citizens.
>
>
>
>
>
>mpisg has always had few successes and many distresses.
>the best of 2006 were the Arjun Camp judgment, some CIC decisions and a few
>stalling successes. the worst were lawless evictions and some personal attacks.
>at a different level, the worst was recurrent glimpses of atrophy in our
>systems (besides anomie or what some prefer to call invisible-hand in our polity),
>leading to the recurrent idea that ordinary citizens might as well take a rest
>while the alliance cuts its deals and completes its takeover. then there were
>two amusing developments at end of 2006: one, we learned civil-society bigwigs
>have launched a new-delhi-people-alliance to make master plan and a well-wisher
>said we better wind up before we get mistaken for that privatize-planning
>affair. two, sibling synergy-platform in uttaranchal issued curtain-call after
>proper business enterprise was visited by bigwig ngo wanting to give prize to
>call it local-community-dvpt-effort and, after booting the ngo out for
>temerity, the business-community learned state had already given itself prize
>for same.
>
>
>
>
>
>in 2007, besides winding up, we hope to gear up for reformed
>ordinary-citizenship:
>
>
>
>
>
>we figure there are two types of reforms being pushed in
>mission-mode: the core ones for transition from land use based regulation to
>land ownership based one (for which statutory planning is being subverted in
>favour of private/participatory planning) and ancillary ones for data and for
>disclosure and participation laws. we have extensively engaged, besides on MPD,
>also on RTI (in 2006) and on the Bhagidari program (since 2000) in delhi. so we
>are able to visualize what might be. we expect that:
>
>
>* there will be no development law and hence no
>entitlements or solutions in law and no statutory duties owed in development
>for ordinary citizens to invoke
>
>
>* there will be shifting goal-posts, with organized
>cso/ngo empowered to shift them in private/participatory planning in which
>ordinary citizens will have no separate say
>
>
>* by participation laws cso/ngo will dominate
>decision-making as well as media and courts while atrophied local bodies will
>reduce to their data bankers and independence of the professions and populism
>in politics will get redefined
>
>
>* the ordinary citizen will have the right to elect
>representatives to do what cso-ngo tell (and experts, media and courts echo)
>and the right to know (or, rather, to ask)
>
>
>
>
>
>we figure that practicing ordinary-citizenship in times to
>come will thus hinge on duties under participation and disclosure laws. for
>practice (and also because we figure things could be less confusing / invisible
>if cso-ngo are the only people-representatives and the actual / invisible
>decision-makers are dragged into the purview of RTI), we are mulling two clubs:
>(a) refuse-to-vote and (b) did-you-RTI-today.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>happy 2007.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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