Re: Charlie's Angels (FAQ)

Gita,

"ARE DUAC'S ACTIVITIES ON MPD-2021 LEGAL? This question ought to be
answered in context of the question of legality of MPD-2021 itself, which
is complex and appears not to be of interest to anyone".

In the process of forming an opinion on the celestial or infernal agents of 
the DUAC, could you please elaborate on [a] why and how is the legality of 
the MPD-2021 being questioned; [b] what makes the DUAC's activities on 
MPD-2021 legal or illegal?

Regards,

Leon


"Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a 
fruit salad".

-Peter Kay-


> From: "gita" <plan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: "Architexturez: Enaction-L" <in-enaction@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Architexturez: Enaction-L" <in-enaction@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: mpisgmedia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [in-enaction] Charlie's Angels (FAQ)
> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 04:21:49 -0500 (CDT)
>
> In in-enaction, re
> http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070416/asp/nation/story_7652624.asp
> Architexturez. wrote:
>
> > Architexturez. wrote:
> >> Delhi plans to restore the glory of India?s former capital, the Mughal
> >> seat of power from 1638 till 1857 when the British overthrew the last
> >> emperor. Since then, Shahjahanabad has languished in neglect in the
> >> backyard of the new capital the Raj built to its south: New Delhi.
> >>
> >
> > now somebody remind us. what happened to the rest of Charlie's Angles?
> > the 1638 revival was just one project of many listed here:
> > http://duac.org/ right?
> >
> > anyways, does this all amount to in the context of the masterplan and
> > whatever that may be, in place, legally? and exactly what can DUAC do or
> > not do in this context?
> >
> ===================
>
> Couple of FAQs:
>
> WHO ARE CHARLIE'S-ANGELS? Charlie chairs a Delhi Urban Art Commission
> having 4 other members (maximum size that DUAC can be) and 9 Standing
> Sub-Committees to help with approvals, 13 Taskforces for Imagining-Delhi,
> at least one other Strategy Group with 2 dissolved and 3 undissolved
> taskforces, consultants for suo-motu studies, etc. Except the
> GOI-appointed DUAC members (Mohd Shaheer, Jasbir Sawhney, Narayani Gupta
> and MM Kutty) and ex-officio members of the Strategy Group (constituted
> 'with a view to achieving greater coordination and interaction between'
> DUAC and various agencies of Delhi), all other persons currently
> associated with DUAC are Charlie's Angels as follows: S.8(1) of DUAC Act
> 1973 provides that the DUAC may associate with itself, in such manner and
> for such purposes as may be determined by regulations, any person whose
> assistance or advice it may desire in carrying out any of the provisions
> of this Act. S.27(2)(b) provides that the DUAC may make regulations
> consistent for regulating the manner in which and the purposes for which
> persons may be associated with the Commission under S.8. DUAC has not made
> any Regulations under S.27(2)(b) and has duly informed that decisions to
> associate persons were simply taken by Charlie Commission.
>
> HOW MANY CHARLIE'S-ANGELS POSTS EXIST? There are at least 174 currently
> occupied posts, including 59 on standing sub-committees (listed at
> <http://duac.org/ria/rianx05_pg1.htm>) and 115 on Imagining-Delhi
> Taskforces (listed at <http://duac.org/ria/rianx06_pg1.htm>). DUAC has not
> yet disclosed complete information about persons associated with it.
>
> HOW MANY ANGELS FILL THE KNOWN CHARLIE'S-ANGELS POSTS? 92 Angels fill the
> known 174 Charlie's-Angels posts.
>
> WHICH ARE CHARLIE'S EMINENTLY BEST-20 ANGELS? The 20 that man between them
> 74 out of the 174 Charlie's Angels known posts, viz: the 5 Angels manning
> 5 posts each (KT Ravindran, JK Jain, JK Mittu, Ram Kumar Thareja and
> Balbir Verma), the 4 Angels manning 4 posts each (AGK Menon, Sanjay
> Kanvinde, ID Rustogi and Divya Kush), the 2 Angels manning 3 posts
> including two Taskforce Convener posts each (EFN Rebeiro and Ashok Lall),
> and the 9 Angels manning 3 posts each (Anurag Chowfla, Arun Virmani, BM
> Sharma, OP Jain, PK Chowdhury, SC Gupta, SC Jain, Sumit Ghosh and Suresh
> Goel)
>
> WHICH ARE CHARLIE'S EMINENTLY SPECIAL-5 ANGELS? JR Bhalla (manning two
> sub-committee posts), BG Fernandes, Raj Rewal and Ranjit Sabikhi (each
> manning a Taskforce convener post) and Rajiv Narain (manning solo the
> thirteenth Imagining-Delhi Taskforce)
>
> DOES ANY ANGEL OUTSIDE THE BEST-20 & 5-SPECIAL ANGELS MAN A CONVENER POST
> ON ANY TASKFORCE? No.
>
> WHO ARE CHARLIE'S 5 MIGHT-BE-SPECIAL ANGELS? The 5 who were on a
> sub-committee and also joined an Imagining-Delhi Taskforce: Neelima
> Risbud, Mohit Gujral, Roopak Kothari, Sharat Dass and Vinod Gupta.
>
> WHICH OF CHARLIE'S SUB-COMMITTEE ANGELS DID NOT BECOME IMAGINING-DELHI
> ANGELS? All 16 other than the 5 might-be-specials holding only single
> sub-committee posts and also JR Bhalla (Special-5) and B M Sharma & P K
> Chowdhury (Best-20).
>
> HOW MANY OF CHARLIE'S NOT-BEST,ETC ANGELS HOLD IMAGINING-DELHI POSTS
> EX-OFFICIO? 24 officers were recruited for 32 posts. (A number of these
> are learned to have clarified that they performed no Angelic duties
> whatsoever, which obviously makes the performance of Charlie's best
> performing Angels even better).
>
> HOW MANY OF CHARLIE'S NOT-BEST,ETC PRIVATE-SECTOR ANGELS HOLD TWO
> IMAGINING-DELHI POSTS EACH? 14: Alpana Kishore, Ahutosh Kr Agarwal, Atiya
> Habeed Kidwai, Dinesh Sareen, Gian P Mathur, Kuldip Singh, Mahendra Raj,
> Mukesh Sharma, Nivedita Pande, Radhika Chopra, Rajat Ray, Saroj Sawhney,
> Vijay Garg, Yogesh Kapoor
>
> WHY ARE ONLY A FEW IMAGINING-DELHI PROJECTS MAKING PROGRESS? The Best-20
> Angels, who are manning most of Charlie's Angles posts over and above the
> various other posts they are manning, obviously cannot handle more. (Also,
> on some of the issues recruitment was not complete and other eminent
> Angels are being currently recruited. For example, the star performer at
> the DUAC-IIC discussions on 31-March-2007 was Dinesh Mohan who is not yet
> an enlisted Charlie's Angel).
>
> WHAT ROLE ARE CHARLIE'S-ANGELS OFFICIALLY PLAYING IN MPD-2021? In absence
> of the Regulations envisaged in S.27(b) of DUAC Act 1973 it cannot be said
> with certainty what role Charlie's Angels are officially playing in
> anything. The Role that DUAC itself is playing in MPD-2021 has also not
> been officially disclosed: DUAC evaded reply to that question under RTI in
> 2006 and Charlie himself (and also Jasbir Sawhney) evaded reply at the
> DUAC-IIC public discussion on 31-March-2007.
>
> WHAT *CAN* THE DUAC DO ON MPD-2021? DUAC's functions are defined in S.11
> of DUAC Act and its role in MPD is defined in MPD-2001 under DD Act.
> S.11(1) of DUAC Act provides that it shall be the general duty of DUAC to
> advise the Central Government in the matter of preserving, developing and
> maintaining the aesthetic quality of urban and environmental design within
> Delhi and to provide advice and guidance to any local body in respect of
> any project of building operations or engineering operations or any
> development proposal which effects or is likely to affect the skyline or
> the aesthetic quality of surroundings or any public amenity provided
> therein. S.11(2) provides that subject to the provisions of S.11(1) it
> shall be the duty of DUAC to scrutinize, approve, reject or modify
> proposals in respect of specified matters. S.11(3) provides without
> prejudice S.11(1) & (2) that DUAC may suo motu promote and secure the
> development, re-development or beautification of any areas in Delhi in
> respect of which no proposals in that behalf have been received from any
> local body. MPD-2001 Development Code mandated high-level policy committee
> for layout plan guidelines with representation of DUAC and its Plan
> Monitoring and Review provisions mandated monitoring-based plan revision.
> The Role expected of DUAC in MPD-2021 in view of these provisions was to
> advice, on basis of DUAC experience on the high-level policy committee
> under MPD-2001 Development Code, the DDA in the course of MPD-2021
> preparation and the GOI in course of MPD-2021 approval in terms of S.11(1)
> of DUAC Act.
>
> ARE DUAC'S ACTIVITIES ON MPD-2021 LEGAL? This question ought to be
> answered in context of the question of legality of MPD-2021 itself, which
> is complex and appears not to be of interest to anyone. Meanwhile, comment
> may be made on separate activities of Charlie's Angels. Several of
> Charlie's Angels are named as authors of MPD-2021, which had basis in S.5A
> of DD Act (though it is not yet known if those committeefication powers
> were legally and properly exercised). In 2005, Charlie's Angels filed
> DUAC's objections/suggestions on dMPD-2021 in response to the statutory
> public notice inviting public objections/suggestions and in 2006 they
> mounted a traveling exhibition and unleashed a media blitz of their
> imaginings about MPD-2021, all of which was devoid of basis in DUAC Act
> and in conflict with public notice provisions of DD Act. In 2007 Charlie's
> Angels are simultaneously claiming their objections / suggestions /
> imaginings were ignored and proceeding with projects on the basis of the
> significant changes they have introduced into MPD-2021, all of which
> displays distinct improprieties if not outright illegalities. There are
> also glaring illegalities in  Obviously, the activities of Charlie's
> Angels on MPD-2021 are separately illegal and improper. However, this is
> only so in terms of the laws and norms that Charlie's Angels are
> themselves re-writing. In the diabolical heaven in which Charlie's Angels
> throng all misconducts have been regularized and shall be haloed (and for
> those not inclined to throng along, there shall always be room in the
> heavenly hell outside. Amen.)
>
> - gita
>
>
>
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