Request to DDA Commissioner (Planning), 06.10.04
to clarify to Left leaders the problems with GNCTD ideas and to seek from central government s.41 direction against GNCTD interference till he has drawn up an action plan for lawful compliance through DMP solution
Dear Mr Jain,
As per the ToI news item GNCT has more ideas for “policy” / “comprehensive plan”. Perhaps DDA could clarify, especially to former PM and Left leaders whom this appears intended to placate, the following:
- why have the 1100 plots not been offered to units earlier and why are only 800 on offer even now
- why is commercial space for small units not being offered even as deadline for B&C is imminent
- why are commercially misused industrial plots against which orders were passed in 2002 not on offer
- why are industrial plots with post-90 F-category units not on offer after shutting those units
- why is sub-division, not permissible in law, being proposed as policy
- why are redevelopment options as per DMP not on offer alongside relocation options
- why were units previously rejected even as total numbers are as per Delhi Master Plan estimates
- how are these being reconsidered while clarification of DMP conformity of Bawana is pending
- why is GNCT, with neither authority nor competence vis-à-vis DMP, ‘in charge’ even as DDA is also on Monitoring Committee and anyway duty-bound to ensure DMP compliance, also in view of NCMP commitments for industries / employment (reiterated in PM’s ‘rozgar barhao’ slogan) and also for accountability (on implementation failure / diversion of over 2000 Ha DMP industrial space)
- how is GNCT even acting against misuse, a responsibility / power that vests in DDA, which appears not even to have duly identified units in violation of DMP / ZDP for closure (you would recall that in 2000 DDA Chairman had noted possibility / implications of action without establishing violation).
I have sent you many letters and also copy of my s.11A response (raising the above points) suggesting compliance through statutory DMP solution and that government defend in public debate any alternative ‘plan’ against that option / imperative. In face of arbitrary closures and ‘anti-DMP’ political consensus even with no better ideas from anywhere, I urge you, also for credibility of our profession, to seek s.41 direction from MoUD against interference by GNCT (represented on Authority) till you have an action plan for lawful compliance via DMP solution. Gita Dewan Verma, Planner
cc:
- PMO (in continuation of request of 02.10.04)
- Standing Parliamentary Committee Sect (for hearing of response to notice of 22.06.03 re DDA scam)
- Secretary MoUD (for hearing of response to s.11A notice of 21.06.04 - household industries)
- Shri VP Singh, Shri Sitaram Yechury, Shri D Raja (for information)