Dear Gita,
This is shocking. And what do U mean by gearing up for reformed ordinary
citizenship? What is all this? R U all giving up? From what I undersatnd of
ur letter is that things R just too bad for U to want to continue! And this
just when I was telling people to wait & see that there were going to be
just enough professional heads to object to the imminent notification of the
DMP 2021! Is this all we acan expect---blaming RWAs and then throwing up the
towel and leaving them to give opinions and make decisions!
Indeed, I do hope I am wrong in understanding it the way I seem to have.
Aruna Bhowmick,
Concerned Citizen (in constant terror of Noise, Pollution, Politicians and
RWAs!)
On 9 Jan 2007 04:13:10 -0000, Kashyap Mankodi <kashyapmankodi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
This is shocking. And what do U mean by gearing up for reformed ordinary
citizenship? What is all this? R U all giving up? From what I undersatnd of
ur letter is that things R just too bad for U to want to continue! And this
just when I was telling people to wait & see that there were going to be
just enough professional heads to object to the imminent notification of the
DMP 2021! Is this all we acan expect---blaming RWAs and then throwing up the
towel and leaving them to give opinions and make decisions!
Indeed, I do hope I am wrong in understanding it the way I seem to have.
Aruna Bhowmick,
Concerned Citizen (in constant terror of Noise, Pollution, Politicians and
RWAs!)
On 9 Jan 2007 04:13:10 -0000, Kashyap Mankodi <kashyapmankodi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
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:
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>* 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
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>* 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
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>* 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
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>* 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)
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>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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