{"id":7743,"date":"2013-12-11T07:57:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T07:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/historical-sunday\/"},"modified":"2018-06-04T16:43:23","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T16:43:23","slug":"historical-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/historical-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"HISTORICAL SUNDAY"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nVijay K. Saluja<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

SUNDAY, the 8th December,2013 will go down in the history of India as the AWAKENED SUNDAY`. Since the morning of this day, the trend of election results for Delhi, the capital of India indicated, march of awakened Delhi citizens esp its youth towards `Bettering Delhi, which over the last 15 years in particular has been “`raped` & “reviled` by the political parties, who were given the mandate to make Delhi better & provide for better quality of life, for its residents.<\/p>\n

But, allow me to say that [whatever other learned readers may say] Delhi has become an UNLIVABLE city for major percentage of its denizens! Damage to its vast spaces has become either irreparable or very very cost-oriented ,demanding huge resources & is time consuming, too!<\/p>\n

To buttress my point, let me state the following———-<\/p>\n

Over the years there has been no effort to contain its population& spread the growing influx of populace, in a balanced & judicious manner in NCR \u2013the purpose for which it was conceived & planned.<\/p>\n

After all, there is an optimum size of any healthy & properly developed, maintained & operated city.<\/p>\n

Presently, the population of Delhi is touching 200 lakhs!<\/p>\n

Despite, two Delhi Master Plans, there has been no effort to faithfully implement the same .Not only, there has been huge implementation-deficit ,but, there have been compromises in whatever has been implemented!<\/p>\n

All the major & minor transport corridors are in a big mess. There are massive traffic jams at most hours of the day[& night]& there is no consideration in planning of these for two wheelers, light vehicles & PEDESTRIANS!!Result-frequent accidents-<\/p>\n

All the colonies even approved ones & the newly constructed by DDA viz vasant Kunj, Rohini, Dwarka, what to talk of unauthorized colonies, slums, jhuggi-jhonpris-clusters, urban villages & urban extensions are in a big mess<\/p>\n

Allowing to build another floors on the existing houses by increasing FARs in the existing colonies without giving adequate thought to the available basic services & infrastructure is a stark reminder of the bankruptcy of the thought processes of urban plan formulators\/ implementers or is a sad story of the collusion of the concerned local authorities with greed &————?!<\/p>\n

There has been dismal shortage of basic services, inadequate minimum infrastructure, minimum\/no quality of life [which major percentage of Delhi citizens woefully lack!] for its major percentage of residents!<\/p>\n

There have been big scams in various developmental works of Delhi-prominent among these are CWG, Connaught Place Redevelopment Project, River Yamuna Cleaning Works, to name a few, of the many.<\/p>\n

But when a mega-city, has more than 200 lakhs persons living\/ working in its jurisdiction, the new dispensation who ever takes the charge of Delhi will\/ need to work with care, commitment, proper thought & passion to make things better \/better Delhi for its electorates, who, I think can\/ will not be fooled by false & empty promises & will certainly be irked by the arrogance & egos of the persons they have chosen to govern in a better way.<\/p>\n

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( Mr. Vijay K. Saluja is a Director of Giraffe Heroes India Program & winner of national & international award for his contribution to the society for his honesty & writing skill, & Ex Chief Engineer[civil]-NDMC )<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n

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