{"id":8511,"date":"2013-08-15T16:38:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T16:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/join-action-plan-for-better-dwarka\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T22:28:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T16:58:44","slug":"join-action-plan-for-better-dwarka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/join-action-plan-for-better-dwarka\/","title":{"rendered":"JOIN An ACTION PLAN for “Better Dwarka Model” for Happy Independence.."},"content":{"rendered":"
\nDear Residents of Dwarka , Readers of Dwarka Parichay & the Civic-Authorities of Dwarka<\/p>\n

Let me take this opportunity to wish all of you a VERY HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY<\/b>. <\/p>\n

This is my ardent desire & earnest wish, like all of you, that we make our DWARKA a better[than today], well-governed, managed, maintained & organised sub-city, of which we all- its residents, become proud of & in the next Independence Day speech,the Prime-Minister makes a mention of our `DWARKA Model<\/b>`, for the other cities & its colonies, to emulate it & the LG & CM Delhi quote about it in their various references!?<\/p>\n

You may ask, how can it be possible?<\/b><\/p>\n

To my mind, it is possible & we can do it all together, if we decide to do it.<\/p>\n

Well, here is an ACTION PLAN<\/b>—–<\/p>\n

-Dwarka a well planned sub-city of DDA, presently as per rough estimates has population of about 5.5 lakhs <\/b>which will increase in the days to come.<\/p>\n

-Most of its residents reside in CGHS high rise flats which are managed by the respective RWAs<\/b>.<\/p>\n

-Almost all those residents are very well connected<\/b>, educated, placed & have been placed[retired] in life.<\/p>\n

-Most of them with the grace of God are healthy, have zest for life & possess passion to do some tangible things<\/b> for the society & thus their Dwarka.<\/p>\n

-Their children go to the best of schools-some of these are located in Dwarka, itself.<\/p>\n

-Because of their desire to improve their neighbourhood there are many active e-groups<\/b> operating in the area.some of the ones which I am aware about are-Dwarka Forum, Sukh Dukh Kay Saathi & many groups of the ladies.<\/b><\/p>\n

-They engage on regular basis with the concerned authorities for many local civic issues & as well send out reports about the meetings to their google-group members.<\/p>\n

-There are very active, vigilant & well read neighbourhood newspapers, portals like Dwarka Parichay & local Radio network-Dwarka Radio which specialise in Dwarka activities & events etc etc.<\/p>\n

Besides, there are well aware- youth & active residents of many transformed villages in this area<\/b><\/p>\n

It is however felt as under-<\/p>\n

-Their need to be aggressive & active engagement from the concerned civic authorities-DDA,MCD, BSES, DJB, MTNL, DTC,Delhi Metro,various service providers like IGL, AirTel,Vodafone,Tata Sky,Police i\/c Traffic Police,Environment Department of Delhi Govt etc etc to CONVERSE on regular basis, with Dwarka residents & its civil-society groups i\/c Schools-Principals,Institutes-Directors,representatives of RWAs & Traders Associations,to seek their ideas & support on regular basis to help them in keeping Dwarka improved & well maintained.<\/p>\n

The residents & traders are BIG ASSETS.<\/b><\/p>\n

Let the senior officers of these civic bodies<\/b>, Police, service providers shed their EGO, & set up a CARING system which lends ears to the hardships & urgent needs of the residents & then ACT to solve these problems e.g. encroachment in the markets, proper parking of vehicles i\/c parking\/transport woes, arbitrary toeing of vehicles, scarcity of water, broken roads-footpaths, garbage mis-management, non working traffic lights,inadequate road-signs\/names, to name a few. <\/p>\n

I, have been, myself, an official of a New Delhi Local Body for about 35 years & as per my personal experience, a little effort & initiative from the authorities will get BIG positive response from the PUBLIC & CIVIL SOCIETY of Dwarka<\/p>\n

As the DIRECTOR of Giraffe Heroes India Program,we plan to start `OUR DWARKA CONVERSATIONS<\/b>`[details in my next mail] in association with DWARKA PARICHAY & some other like minded organisations to involve the elected representatives, Authorities & Dwarka -Residents\/ Traders, to start with, in giving on REGULAR basis, ideas to better Dwarka<\/b> & then making joint efforts to IMPLEMENT those ideas.<\/p>\n

I also again invite the residents to send their nominations for the commendations of GIRAFFE HEROES<\/b>. More details about it, are at<\/p>\n

www.giraffe.org\/giraffe-heroes-india<\/p>\n

or with Dwarka Parichay<\/p>\n

With my very best wishes
\n& GREETINGS on the INDEPENDENCE DAY.<\/p>\n

Vijay K. Saluja<\/b>
\nEx Chief Engineer[civil] New Delhi Municipal Council
Ex President ,IIT Delhi Alumni Association
& Senior Fellow-Institute of Social Sciences,New Delhi www.issin.org<\/b><\/p>\n

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Dear Residents of Dwarka , Readers of Dwarka Parichay & the Civic-Authorities of Dwarka Let me take this opportunity to wish all of you a VERY HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY. This is my ardent desire & earnest wish, like all of you, that we make our DWARKA a better, well-governed, managed, maintained & organised sub-city, of which we all- its residents, become proud of & in the next Independence Day speech,the Prime-Minister makes a mention of our `DWARKA Model`, for the other cities & its colonies, to emulate it & the LG & CM Delhi quote about it in their <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,3,82,1],"tags":[167,1882,1879,16],"class_list":["post-8511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-better-india","category-celebrations","category-inspiration","category-update","tag-celebration","tag-giraffe-heroes","tag-update","tag-vijay-k-saluja","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8511"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71951,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8511\/revisions\/71951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}