Follow-up
on responses to Public Notice of 18.09.2004 for DMP modification to "regularize" metro IT Park and residential development on the riverbed
- 15.10.2004: Letters to DDA / MoUD for action on prior responses, communications, etc, mentioned in and basis of the objection filed in response to the noticefrom, Gita Dewan Verma
- 15.10.2004: News report: Deadlock continues over Metro projectsThe Hindu: "...the stand-off has spared those projects in which ...the construction had been undertaken by DMRC out of its own resources. One such big project is the Information Technology Park being built by DMRC near the Shastri Park Depot. By raising its own funds -- primarily through loans from the Delhi Government -- the DMRC has almost completed the first of the three buildings which would house major IT players. Also, it is learnt to be in consultation with some major IT companies for leasing out the space..."
- 16.10.2004: Photographs, Poonam Prakash
- 17.10.2004: Open Letter (with reference to news report of 15.10.04 and photographs of 16.10.04) and requests to NCR Planning Board, Delhi Urban Arts Commission, Council of Architecture, Police Commissioner, Central Vigilance Commission and PMO, with reference to prior objections, etc, mentioned in response to IT Park Public Notice, Gita Dewan Verma
- 23.10.2004: News report: Daily Pioneer: "The decks have been cleared for the construction of the Commonwealth Games village on the banks of the Yamuna. The Supreme Court's refusal to grant stay on the construction of the Akshardham temple on the Yamuna river bed cleared all doubts about the location of the Games village," said the sources
- 23.10.2004: Letter to ask for responses to IT Park Public Notice to be considered also “doubts” about the Games Village and their disposal to be expedited so as not to delay decisions for Games Village or mar it with any “controversy“, MPISG Planner
- 24.10.2004: Letter to PS to UDM, with copies to offices of President, NAC and CVC (with reference to communications fowarded by them), for proper hearing, etc, MPISG Convener (education)
- 27.10.2004: News report: Asian Age: “… Delhi’s first Information Technology park being constructed with the aid of the Delhi government is nearing completion at Shastri Park in East Delhi, MNCs have begun vying for space. ...The park, which will have six lakh square feet of full construction, will become operational by the end of the year. The project, which was started in November 2003
- 31.10.2004: News report: Times of India: “Property prices in Delhi are going up: …It's not just low interest rates and easy access to home loans. The Metro, multiplexes and malls, the Commonwealth Games, the entry of NRIs into real estate business and liberalisation in land disposal rules are also contributing…”
- 01.11.2004: News reports: Hindustan Times: “the city’s first world-class IT Park near the Delhi Metro’s Shastri Park station is nearing completion. ... DMRC is developing the park, the Delhi government has contributed Rs 20 crore out of a total of Rs 110 crore ...Officials are now calculating the rentals which would be charged from the IT companies... cheap rentals would be the only incentive for them to set base at Delhi’s first IT park”; Asian Age: “...information technology would the central theme of the Delhi pavilion at the forthcoming India International Trade Fair, scheduled to be held from November 14 to 27 at Pragati Maidan... The theme for the IITF this year will be "Information Technology and Agriculture."
- 03.11.2004: Article invited by Pioneer for Saturday Op-Ed on regularisation: On September 18, with all starting to debate options of review petition, ordinance, enabling provision and whatnot to regularise industries, DDA issued Public Notice ...on central government’s proposal to change land use of 6 Ha from riverbed to commercial (IT Park) – a proposal, in fact, to regularise ...On October 15, amidst renewed regularisation-consensus, was reported construction, continuing regardless of Public Notice. On November 1 were reported likelihood of completion by end year and plans to woo IT majors and showcase at international trade fair from November 14 – regardless now of over 200 s.11A objections and suggestions (including for clearance ...by Children’s Day in view of deaths of children in Bawana). Published, ed, 06.11.04