Commerce
National Common Minimum Programme and Delhi Master Plan
DMP has explicit provisions for hawking, small shops, regulated mixed use, etc, that recent informal sector policy has been disregarding to maintain extortionist status-quo and other policy has been subverting by allowing misuse of their DMP space. NCMP commitments for informal sector call for rectification by enforcing DMP or better solutions.
Convergence opportunities and imperatives
- Hawkers' demand for implementation of NCMP informal sector commitments by enforcing statutory DMP solutions and immediate suspension of recent "policies" jeopardizing them and public expenditure on these "policies", etc, 14 June 2004
- Objection to inertial policy discourse in letter to MoUD, etc, with account of an NGO meeting on 16 June 2004.
- NCMP-DMP Note-4 about DMP opportunities and imperatives for NCMP informal sector commitments(in view of diversionary-policy developments), with annexure enumerating engagements since 2000, 22 June 2004
- Request to stop licensing, etc, commercial use in violation of DMP, also in context of Supreme Court adverse remarks about "guidelines" promoting this at no.1 in letter of 23 June 2004
- Application for addition of NCMP-DMP Note-4 in s.11 response to Public Notice of April 2004 for allowing unfettered metro property development at no.3 in letter of 23 June 2004
- High Court order for additional replies in MPISG PIL, 11.08.04
- At SSI convention PM reiterates NCMP promise of National Commission for unorganised sector, 30.08.2004
- Central Vigilance Commission letter seeking action plan for DMP provisions for hawkers, 10.09.04
- NCMP-DMP concerns, etc, raised in hawkers' response to s.11A Public Notice for commercial use on riverbed, 14.10.2004
Subversions
- continuing public expenditure on market pretty-fication schemes without rectification of misuse of space meant for hawkers and small shops
- continuing harassment of hawkers, complaint of 11.07.2004
- announcement of policy to license commercial misuse in residential areas to, in effect, spare planned commercial space for up-market commerce, quashed by Supreme Court (but without directions for DMP solution, not sought in that PIL), 02.08.2004
- announcement of schemes for privatizing weekly markets in unplanned sites and liberalizing use of planned space meant for them, 06.09.2004
- DDA/MoUD issue metro IT Park Public Notice for change of land use to commercial on river bed, 18.09.2004
- DDA letter for police assistance against "vendor menace" in Nehru Place > letter to Police Commissioner, 02.10.2004
- DDA/MoUD fail to file replies in MPISG PIL as per court order of 11.08.04, matter not heard for paucity of time, 13.10.2004
- MCD plans to "regularize" hawkers as per Manushi-MCD policy > letters pointing out how the proposal is invalid under MCD Act and cognisable offence under DDA Act, 16-17.10.2004
Links
- DMP2021 Minder / Track / Entitlements - Commerce: Entitlements at risk, up to August 2003
- mpisg PIL against unrestricted disposal of planned commercial space, etc, December 2002
- mpisg PIL against unplanned development in ridge area, including for Malls in violation of DMP while DMP commercial facility provisions are yet to be implemented, December 2003