Well done. Keep it up. Not many will stand up like this.H.U.Bijlani
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From: "Gita Dewan Verma" <mpisgplanner@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <in-enaction@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 8:23 PM
Subject: [mpisgplanner] I think no one can *help* TVB-SHS
> I received a call today from A G K Menon, Director TVB
> School of Habitat Studies, to ask if I could *help*
> with a housing studio, give orientation (to students,
> obviously) about constitutional processes. Some days
> ago Dean of Studies A B Lal had called to ask if I
> could *help* about their illegal site, since I
> understand best Delhi Master Plan processes.
>
> TVB-SHS is five minutes walk from my flat in Vasant
> Kunj. For five years I have been engaging in support
> of DMP processes, mainly as planner consultant to
> citizens' groups, many in and around Vasant Kunj (in
> all sorts of housing). For five years
> *professional-trustees* (a phrase from Lal) like Menon
> have lent *expert* credentials to extra-constitutional
> processes to open-up, in name of an unlawful DMP
> revision, public land acquired for half century in
> name of DMP for world-class loot. Not once in five
> years did *professional trustees* consider my work
> worth a thumbnail in the professional space that they
> control. After a full range of constitutional
> processes has been subverted to substitute DMP with
> lately approved draft DMP-2021, which I do not even
> have access to forget expertise on, I am being invited
> to *help* - what?
>
> Just last week my clients lodged complaints against
> experts and NGOs supporting DMP violations challenged
> in court cases, public notice responses, Central
> Vigilance Commission references, memoranda on which
> Parliamentary Committee is to hear oral evidence, etc.
> I saw no point in telling Menon that a serious
> professional-practice ethics issue (and not, say, a
> silly but damaging review that he wrote of my book and
> me, his silly but damaging expert-planner comments in
> media, etc) stands in my way to his TVB-SHS - has been
> driven to stand there because questions about what
> generally stands in the way of those wanting to *help*
> have been ignored for too long.
>
> I am posting this in case anyone wants to fret about
> professional-space issues that such situations raise.
> I myself have lately decided to save my fretting for
> better things.
>
>
>
>
>
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Gita Dewan Verma" <mpisgplanner@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <in-enaction@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <proudpora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <mpisgplanner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 8:23 PM
Subject: [mpisgplanner] I think no one can *help* TVB-SHS
> I received a call today from A G K Menon, Director TVB
> School of Habitat Studies, to ask if I could *help*
> with a housing studio, give orientation (to students,
> obviously) about constitutional processes. Some days
> ago Dean of Studies A B Lal had called to ask if I
> could *help* about their illegal site, since I
> understand best Delhi Master Plan processes.
>
> TVB-SHS is five minutes walk from my flat in Vasant
> Kunj. For five years I have been engaging in support
> of DMP processes, mainly as planner consultant to
> citizens' groups, many in and around Vasant Kunj (in
> all sorts of housing). For five years
> *professional-trustees* (a phrase from Lal) like Menon
> have lent *expert* credentials to extra-constitutional
> processes to open-up, in name of an unlawful DMP
> revision, public land acquired for half century in
> name of DMP for world-class loot. Not once in five
> years did *professional trustees* consider my work
> worth a thumbnail in the professional space that they
> control. After a full range of constitutional
> processes has been subverted to substitute DMP with
> lately approved draft DMP-2021, which I do not even
> have access to forget expertise on, I am being invited
> to *help* - what?
>
> Just last week my clients lodged complaints against
> experts and NGOs supporting DMP violations challenged
> in court cases, public notice responses, Central
> Vigilance Commission references, memoranda on which
> Parliamentary Committee is to hear oral evidence, etc.
> I saw no point in telling Menon that a serious
> professional-practice ethics issue (and not, say, a
> silly but damaging review that he wrote of my book and
> me, his silly but damaging expert-planner comments in
> media, etc) stands in my way to his TVB-SHS - has been
> driven to stand there because questions about what
> generally stands in the way of those wanting to *help*
> have been ignored for too long.
>
> I am posting this in case anyone wants to fret about
> professional-space issues that such situations raise.
> I myself have lately decided to save my fretting for
> better things.
>
>
>
>
>
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