Union Cabinet has approved Delhi?s Statehood Bill, as
promised at the launch of BJP election campaign
yesterday and sought at the launch of Congress
election campaign day before. Both launches spoke of
Master Plan ?guidelines? as ?new Master Plan? and took
credit for them. And the Statehood Bill seems to have
reduced to one for ?control? of DDA.
With a ?new? Plan ? that took just an unconstitutional
announcement at a press conference and two weeks of
media hype to invent a new a brand of law making ? to
get the statutory Plan for which DDA was constituted
and vested with land acquired over 40 years out of the
way, ?control? of DDA has nothing to do with
responsibility of its mandate of planned development
on public land in public interest and everything to do
with power over its land holdings.
I maintain there never was, nor can there be, any
bonafide rationale for statehood for a city with a
multi-state region. But irrational statehood is well
suited to the state-of-affairs in which
unconstitutional ?guidelines? can veritably become law
in two weeks.
Any doubts about the kind of anarchy at the end of the
laissez-faire trend line are put to rest by a sizeable
advertisement in the Sunday papers that told us how we
are blessed to have the Cooperative Bill, moved and
approved in our Assembly soon to have full statehood
powers, despite admitted legal defect, and did so in
the name of bhagidari, constitutional basis of which
too has yet to be clarified as no government can play
favourites constitutionally. Bhagidaars, incidentally,
have been book-posted in booklets the ?guidelines? for
their comments.
To the non-bhagidaars in all this, I reiterate
requests made yesterday in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mpisgplanner/message/35
I think it is also in order to question the tabling of
the Statehood Bill, with ?control? of DDA as central
theme, in Parliament while a Parliamentary Committee
is in the process of examining the functioning of DDA
and the DDA scam has not been discussed by Parliament.
Gita Dewan Verma / Planner / 11.08.2003
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Cabinet clears statehood for Delhi
TIMES NEWS NETWORK [ MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 2003 02:01:52
PM ]
NEW DELHI: Delhi on Monday marched towards full
statehood after the Union Cabinet cleared a Bill to
that end.
"It is a great day for Delhi. The Cabinet has cleared
the bill for the statehood," Union Labour Minister
Sahib Singh Verma said after the Cabinet meeting
presided over by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
Verma said law and order, however, will remain with
the Centre.
The Bill would be introduced in the current session of
Parliament, Verma said.
He said bodies like the DDA which, at present, comes
under the purview of the Centre, would fall under the
jurisdiction of the Delhi Government once the Bill is
passed.
Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani had announced on
Sunday that the home ministry had already given shape
to the Bill and it would be introduced in current
session of Parliament.
Advani had said the Centre supported the demand for
granting full statehood to Delhi and hoped entire
Parliament will support the Bill.
The demand for granting full statehood to Delhi was
also made by the Sheila Dikshit government in a letter
to the Centre, Advani said
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promised at the launch of BJP election campaign
yesterday and sought at the launch of Congress
election campaign day before. Both launches spoke of
Master Plan ?guidelines? as ?new Master Plan? and took
credit for them. And the Statehood Bill seems to have
reduced to one for ?control? of DDA.
With a ?new? Plan ? that took just an unconstitutional
announcement at a press conference and two weeks of
media hype to invent a new a brand of law making ? to
get the statutory Plan for which DDA was constituted
and vested with land acquired over 40 years out of the
way, ?control? of DDA has nothing to do with
responsibility of its mandate of planned development
on public land in public interest and everything to do
with power over its land holdings.
I maintain there never was, nor can there be, any
bonafide rationale for statehood for a city with a
multi-state region. But irrational statehood is well
suited to the state-of-affairs in which
unconstitutional ?guidelines? can veritably become law
in two weeks.
Any doubts about the kind of anarchy at the end of the
laissez-faire trend line are put to rest by a sizeable
advertisement in the Sunday papers that told us how we
are blessed to have the Cooperative Bill, moved and
approved in our Assembly soon to have full statehood
powers, despite admitted legal defect, and did so in
the name of bhagidari, constitutional basis of which
too has yet to be clarified as no government can play
favourites constitutionally. Bhagidaars, incidentally,
have been book-posted in booklets the ?guidelines? for
their comments.
To the non-bhagidaars in all this, I reiterate
requests made yesterday in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mpisgplanner/message/35
I think it is also in order to question the tabling of
the Statehood Bill, with ?control? of DDA as central
theme, in Parliament while a Parliamentary Committee
is in the process of examining the functioning of DDA
and the DDA scam has not been discussed by Parliament.
Gita Dewan Verma / Planner / 11.08.2003
------------
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Cabinet clears statehood for Delhi
TIMES NEWS NETWORK [ MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 2003 02:01:52
PM ]
NEW DELHI: Delhi on Monday marched towards full
statehood after the Union Cabinet cleared a Bill to
that end.
"It is a great day for Delhi. The Cabinet has cleared
the bill for the statehood," Union Labour Minister
Sahib Singh Verma said after the Cabinet meeting
presided over by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
Verma said law and order, however, will remain with
the Centre.
The Bill would be introduced in the current session of
Parliament, Verma said.
He said bodies like the DDA which, at present, comes
under the purview of the Centre, would fall under the
jurisdiction of the Delhi Government once the Bill is
passed.
Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani had announced on
Sunday that the home ministry had already given shape
to the Bill and it would be introduced in current
session of Parliament.
Advani had said the Centre supported the demand for
granting full statehood to Delhi and hoped entire
Parliament will support the Bill.
The demand for granting full statehood to Delhi was
also made by the Sheila Dikshit government in a letter
to the Centre, Advani said
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