Facilities

DMP gives legal strength to commitment to equal access neighbourhood schools that draft education Bill 2003 and compliance of court order for free seats have been diluting. NCMP committing resources without central law calls for progressive implementation of the DMP solution, also as framework for optimally absorbing resources. PIL on free beds in hospitals, likewise, is confusing equity basis of DMP for charity perspective, expedient for emergent medical-tourism type visions for Delhi.

Convergence opportunities and imperatives

• NCMP-DMP Note-3 on DMP common school system imperatives for NCMP and 86th Amendment opportunities arising from recent / ongoing court matters about schools in Delhi, enumerating in Annexure prior engagements since 2000 (16 June 2004)
• Letters to PM and LG, with NCMP-DMP Note-3 with reference to news reports about their appreciation of illusory efforts of Delhi government for compliance of court orders for free seats (25 June 2004)
• President's Independence Day eve address focussing on education, PM's Independence Day address identifying education as one of seven priority areas from NCMP for focussed attention (14-15 August 2004)
• Letter of 07.07.04 about children and resettlement forwarded by Central Vigilance Commission, 06.09.04
• High Court order in MPISG PIL to DDA to file additional reply about misuse on school sites, 08.09.04
• NCMP-DMP concerns, etc, about education raised in responses to s.11A Public Notice for DMP modification for IT Park on riverbed, 14-15.10.04

Subversions

• Delhi and central government ideas with reference to NDA Education Bill, short of DMP entitlements > Letter of 23.06.04 to reiterate objections (forwarded to Secretary MoHRD as per President Secretariat letter of 29.06.04)
• Deaths, including of children, in Bawana (news report of 06.07.04) > Letter of 07.07.04 to question imminent resettlement alongside orders for free seats in slum-freed areas, etc > (forwarded by CVC as per letter of 06.09.04 and by President Secretariat and NAC with letters of 28.07.04)
• Downsizing from DMP 25% for EWS to 20% for BPL in line with NDA Bill goes unnoticed in further High Court order of 09.07.04 in free seats matter
• School teaching the non-rich demolished without notice on 27.07.04 > Letters of 28.07.04 (forwarded to Secretary MoUD as per President Secretariat letter of 03.08.04 and NAC letter of 26.08.04)
• Deadline for free seats passes without compliance (news report) while government holds consultation on Delhi education Bill, 31.07.04
• In Chennai Union Finance Minister speaks of central legislation, 03.08.04
• Lawyer article to argue there is no difference between 25% and 20% in terms of free seats condition Social Jurist, 05.08.04
• On premise of free seats condition relating to cheap allotment rather than equal access neighbourhood school system DDA decides to auction school sites, 06.08.04
• News report about charitable hospital building being up for sale > complaints of 2002 about illegalities on site and suggestion for shifting government hospital illegally coming up on green belt to it reiterated, 19.08.04.
• Following High Court proceedings of 19.08.04 decision to accept Escorts' offer of 51 crores to "get rid of" the free beds condition taken and reported, 20.08.04
• With Delhi government "objecting" only about share of auction proceeds, (policy for auctioning school sites put up for approval to LG, 21.08.04
• 10 questions about land "policy" initiatives for health and education facilities, 22.08.04
• Health and education land policy developments - facility, charity, law - and insidiousness, 23.08.04
• More policy ideas: recommendations for reducing standards for school sites, 08.09.04
• More policy ideas: Enrollment drives, mobile schools, shut schools, 10.09.04

Links to some previous posts

• mpisg PIL: developments up to 16.06.04 in a clutch of PIL seeking enforcement of DMP CSS, filed in Delhi High Court in December 2003 on basis of engagements since 2000, enumerated in annexure at end of NCMP-DMP Note-3, in view of discussions on the education Bill and imminent orders in related matters
• Education Bill 2003: NDA draft Bill for free and compulsory education and its criticism
• eebill mail-list ...In the discourse about the draft bill as well as in recent PIL on free seats for the poor concern for a common school system has been amply reiterated. But holistic solutions suggested in existing law, such as in the equal access neighbourhood school provisions of Delhi Master Plan, although being sought by communities, continue to be disregarded in the discourse. This list is for discussion premised on already existing law...