Monday, August 08, 2005

My friend - a Cow

As usual the hon'ble high court of delhi has been led up the garden path by all these NGO types.

1) Stray cattle on the road is a cognisable offence under Delhi Police ACT. With all these dairy mafias whom plannerly type are so keen to suck(le) up to, you can't expect the poor MCD to rid street of cattle in face of law and order problem. Somehat like why Shielaji will regularise all these polluting industries functioning from residential areas because of fears of another "Gurgaon situation".

2) These are all failures of Police to Act, eg. last week I opined on section 431 Indian Penal Code, and why persons blocking public roads(like hawkers) should
be prosecuted under these sections. Obviously some like minded person has taken up the matter seriously. Today's Hindustan Times (pg 4 Metro) has big story called "Dump it, face Court" where 431 IPC comes into play, Ld. Magistrate has found no force in MCD receipt allowing dumping of mulba by builder in CR Park and allowed prosecution u/s 431, causing said builder to moan and whinge that he was being prosecuted unfairly
u/s 431 (5 years in the clink) when he was prepared to pay the fine of Rs.100 under DP ACT. Quite right, if only DP used their powers (vast/draconian) Delhi would
be a much safer place to live in - for cows at least - if not for women!

Now with that sexist remark, I shall sign off for the day.

Sarbajit Roy

--- Gita Dewan Verma <mpisgplanner@yahoo.com> wrote:

> That is the title of the Pioneer report about the latest court order in the Common-Cause PIL against stray cattle. Seems to be for community-participation
> in banishing bovines, with incentive-recovery through auctioning stray cows - to whom and for what, I wonder.

> By orders in this PIL, in May 2004 our MCD Commissioner, already milking farmhouses-party-menace, began auctioning city buffaloes in neighbouring
states and donating city cows to a trust in Mt Abu purportedly to solve stray-cattle-menace. A month into this peculiar drive, I had posted a chronicle,
also to point out DMP sane solution to both menaces, viz, relocating bovines to farms.
>
http://plan.architexturez.net/site/dmp2021/dmp/track/02
>
> On 04/08/04, in court waiting for a matter-to-reach, I was stunned to hear that over 18 thousand of 23 thousand cattle deported in 18 months in Common-Cause
> had died. There was no reference to the cow-donations
> or buffalo-auctions and I had found that strange. Stray-cow auctions sound even stranger.
>
> The orders are available at http://courtnic.nic.in/
> The petition number is WP (C) 3791 of 2000. Amidst every-other-day news to fret about possibilities of offending sensibilities, I hope someone who
understands these things will take a look, especially
at the orders of 04/08/04 and 08/09/04.
>
> On the plannerly case, I have no doubts. The farmhouse-misuse-milking policy was quashed last month in other PIL and in our case against unplanned and
> illegal schemes in farmhouse-zone also pleadings were
> closed on 03/08/05. The Common-Cause property is certainly misuse case. The following is translation of> the draft of the response to DMP2021 Public Notice
> response from Masudpur Dairy that friends in Masudpur showed me. There was some anxiety about filing, but I was told that even if the Dairy people decide not
> to, people from the village would include in their response(s).
>
> -----
> The 1962 Master Plan provided for uses like dairies
> in Rural Area and urban villages. It did not allow city
> expansion south of JNU for water constraint.
> Government made a dairy near Masudpur here.
>
> Then Vasant Kunj came up in Rural Area and in it a
> plot for other-community-facility was allotted to
> NGO Common-Cause of HD Shourie, who has lately passed
> away, which has built there a multi-storied building
> in which it occupies a small portion and rest is
> rented out. The plot for other-community-facility
> near Masudpur Dairy has been allotted to a college and
> Vasant Kunj flat residents want a club on another
> other-community-facility plot.
>
> Now Common-Cause is not a local community facility,
> but is occupying a plot (close to where Vasant Kunj
> Malls are being made) that college or club could
> occupy, while those are running in J-Zone Rural Area
> - where dairies could be.
>
> Some examples are: clubs / wedding-places in name of
> farmhouses (from which MCD is milking
> misuse-charge), illegal Delhi government specialty hospital (under
> construction with illegal boring) and amidst them a
> builder college by name of TVB (whose director AGK
> Menon is chairman of Plan 2021 sub-group for
> conservation and urban renewal).
>
> That such uses are wholly illegal in Rural Area has
> been clearly settled by the Court in the order of
> 2002 for stopping and inquiry of Sultangarhi scheme. That
> case, or current case against Malls and other J-Zone
> schemes in violation of Master Plan, was not filed
> by Common-Cause, but by local citizens. The
> Common-Cause contemporary of such cases is its case against
> stray-cattle in name of which MCD is closing dairies
> and auctioning buffaloes and Delhi Government is
> making some little space for them in Ghogha in
> Narela, while the likes of AGK Menon have pushed into Plan
> 2021 proposals for Sultangarhi scheme and nearest
> urban extension in ground-water critical J-Zone and,
> in return, MLAs have recommended regularisaion of
> colleges running in Rural Area. Such bhagidaari of
> sophisticates would not be moved even if buffaloes
> were to play bin before it [idiom, in reverse].
>
> Masudpur Dairy, of course, is authorised. Like Plan
> 2001, draft Plan 2021 landuse plan also shows it
> amidst the yellow of Vasant Kunj in white, like a
> barfi. But barfi cut in [babugiri] can do nothing
> about bitterness spread against dairies. When
> Masudpur Dairy was made, the area was Rural Area. Afterwards
> Vasant Kunj came up and to date does not have proper
> sewerage outfall. Even before the Common-Cause PIL,
> RWAs have been fuss-making about sewerage from the
> Dairy and more fuss-making about some in it leaving
> and renting their plots. All seem to have forgotten
> that the Dairy was here first and legally and Vasant
> Kunj came up later and illegally. A civilized
> solution might have been to shift the Dairy to south of
> Vasant Kunj, but those who have occupied that farmland or
> the likes of Common-Cause that have occupied plots that
> those could have occupied obviously found it easy to
> malign buffaloes to be able to maintain their status
> quo.
>
> This year, with earth removed from Vasant Kunj Malls
> site being dumped into the natural drain that flows
> towards RK Puram, rainwater back-flowed and filled
> in the Dairy. If we were to think what is the point
> telling, all will say good-the-buffaloes-drowned,
> how would you know that if it rains harder JNU might get
> flooded? The letter sent by Masudpur village social
> worker about the water-logging is enclosed.
>
> Now Plan 2021 proposes for appurtenant Rural Area
> urban extension and for urban villages
> redevelopment. The only reference to Dairies that we have been able
> to locate in it is by way of service shop, only in
> urban villages.
>
> We would like to suggest that urban agriculture
> inclusive of dairying is a sensible land use and
> provision should be made for it. But, after what
> Shouri saab has done before going, anything said in
> favour of buffaloes might seem like [idiom,
> kaala-akshar-bhains-baraabar]. As such, it is also
> suggested that, at the least, against the names of
> all the authors of Plan 2021, their Plan violations also
> be published.

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