Manufacturing

Industries, denied DMP industrial space, are largely in non-industrial space. Supreme Court judgment of 07.05.2004 upholds DMP provisions and processes to direct their closure in 4 to 18 months. NCMP commitments for manufacturing, predicated upon survival of units, call for viewing closure deadlines as ones for enforcing DMP or better solutions.

Convergence opportunities and imperatives

• NCMP-DMP Note-2 on DMP imperatives for NCMP opportunities arising from Supreme Court Judgment of 07.05.04 for industries in Delhi (with list of prior DMP-based objections/suggestions, vindicated by the narration in the judgment), sent to members of the compliance Monitoring Committee and others (06 June 2004)
• Application for addition to s.11A response to metro property development Public Notice of NCMP-DMP Note-2 in view of objection in former to unfettered commercial use usurping industrial space options, including in planned commercial areas, in letter to Commissioner (Planning) (06 June 2004)
• Announcement of DMP option rather than industry-like closure of dairies in compliance of court orders against stray cattle: Letter to Delhi government minister to seek similar DMP solutions for industries and to point out more DMP options for dairies, etc, (in context of tracking post on banishing bovines) (06 June 2004)
• Letter to DDA VC and others to suggest they seek special budget provision for compliance of order for industries through DMP solution rather than closure (24 June 2004)
• Supreme Court order of 14.07.04 for shifting Idgah abattoir: s.40(3) application to Secretary MoUD to examine legality and propriety of DDA (and MCD and GNCT) role in Public Notice, tenders, announcements, etc, in 2003 for its "regularisation", with request for inclusion of industry-related objections in response to that Public Notice in current one and for meeting with DMP2021 expert group on industries (18 July 2004)
• NCMP-DMP imminent subversion note to NAC Chairperson, in view of announcement of policy papers in NCMP priority areas including manufacturing and employment, about impossibility of lawful compliance of Supreme Court orders without DMP solution (25 July 2003)
• Letter from Secretary to Industries minister in Delhi government, forwarding representation to DDA Vice Chairman (02 August 2004): Reply, with copy to others to request clarification of government's overall plan for compliance, mentioning stern view court had taken of most cows (connected to industries matter also through Idgah notice) dying in process of government's lawless compliance of court orders (04 August 2004)
• Discussion at office of Commissioner of Industries (20 August 2004)
• Federation of Industries of India Colloquium on "Lawful compliance of Supreme Court order" (22 August 2004)
• Decision of an association affiliated with the Delhi Federation to approach Court for enforcement of statutory DMP solution for it (last week, August 2004, reversed in confusion after government announced on 31.08.04 its intent to approach Supreme Court, which it did not do)
• PM reiterates NCMP commitments for industry at SSI convention: Press release | Text of address (30 August 2004)
• Letter to Prime Ministerfor intervention for consideration of compliance through statutory solution instead of through lawless closure, following news reports of 09.09.2004 about 2000-like developments and in view of his address at SSI convention on 31.08.04, etc (09 September 2004)
• Discussion at SPA about Delhi Government's proposed review petition based on ideas comprehensively rejected by the court and nearly identical to what it had filed in 1999 (14 September 2004)
• Request to Commissioner (Planning) to draw attention to the statutory solution with reference to growing political consensus against it / for Delhi Government's review petition and a report about CM, UDM and LG intending to approach PM to "influence" the court, and to settle the question of illegality in terms of DMP2001 of Delhi Government Secretariat and its environment-damaging projects continuing in disregard of sub-judice matter with reference to its interpretations for industries, with note comparing DMP2001 options and DMP2021 ideas for different types of industries, copied to PM, Secy MoUD, Secy MoEF, former PM, Left parties (15 September 2004)

Subversions

• MoUD Public Notice of 21.06.04 about Household Industries: s.11A response, including NCMP-DMP note-2 and letter of 24.06.04, to object to procedural defects, obfuscation of A-category with household units, illusory expansion of list, apparent relaxation of conditions tantamount to "regularisation", etc, and to suggest government defend in public debate its overall plan against DMP solution, etc (10 July 2004)
• Assembly statement promising regularisation and GNCT Public Notice for units in residential / non-conforming areas (02.08.07): Letter to Secretary MoUD with note sent to NAC (which did not meet to discuss its policy papers on 31.07.04) to ask for clarification, etc, especially with regard to defect in GNCT Public Notices in terms of references to "non-conforming areas" and impossibility of DMP modification for regularization by court deadline (02 August 2004)
• High-level meeting for Supreme Court order of 07.05.04, (07.08.04, reported 11.08.04) > (Imminent) NCMP subversion: unlawful industrial closure in name of court order (12 August 2004)
• Public Notice of 27.08.04 for start of closure Letter to DDA Commissioner (Planning) about problems with the Notice, with request that he communicate his views on the same to GNCTD Commissioner of Industries for issuance of another Notice (29 August 2004)
• Regularization-eviction doublespeak, news reports (01 - 02 September 2004)
• Industries imbroglio and DMP survival, comment on government's doublespeak, as non-conforming in terms of DMP as industries in residential areas and most hazardous (03 September 2004)
• Closure and protest announcements, comment on news reports (07 September 2004)
• DSIDC’s bhagidari-facelift plans for industrial areas (in which compliance of Supreme Court direction of October 2002, in same matter and mentioned in judgment of May 2004, against commercial misuse is pending compliance) reported amidst fracas about compliance of Supreme Court directions of May 2004 for closure of industries (10 September 2004)
• "Solution-seeking" - Illusion and reality, comment on news reports (10 - 11 September 2004)
• A Cabinet to fret about, comment on decision of emergency cabinet meeting on 11.09.04, as reported by newspapers (12 September 2004)
• "Objection" to Delhi Government's idea for review petition on grounds of it being proven non-viable 5-year old idea rejected by the court and infringing DMP provisions and processes and any review petition proposal calling for wider political and professional discussion (13 September 2004)

Links to previous posts

Move to allow commercial misuse of industrial space (2002)

Moves to regularize industrial units in residential areas (2003)

Move to allow all types of units in special industrial areas (2003)

Disregard of DMP industrial development (eg, Bawana) and redevelopment (eg, Samaipur Badli) provisions (includes excerpt from Slumming India, that also connects industries and bovines, using the case of the former to detail and a starter tale about the latter to broad-stroke The Great Terrain Robbery)