From enaction at architexturez.net Wed Oct 27 08:19:53 2004 From: enaction at architexturez.net (Architexturez Enaction) Date: Sat Dec 4 15:38:55 2004 Subject: [Redevelopment] ITF Award for Delhi Government for proper relocation of industries Message-ID: <42640.202.89.67.66.1098883193.squirrel@202.89.67.66> The following news report in Asian Age mentions India Tech Foundation Award for Delhi Government's power reforms and industries relocation. We cannot locate details on ITF website and would deeply appreciate information to announce on our mail-lists, etc. Thanks and regards. ---Asian Age report--- Delhi gets award for proper relocation - By Our Correspondent New Delhi, Oct. 26: The Delhi government has once again received an award for its outstanding performance in the power sector reforms. Delhi also got an award for proper relocation of industries. The award has been conferred by a Mumbai-based organisation, India Tech Foundation. Delhi power and industry ministers Haroon Yusuf and Mangat Ram Singhal will receive the award on Wednesday. Mr Yusuf said: "It's a matter of great satisfaction that Delhi has got this award for the second time. One of the first major steps taken by the Delhi government was to bring out a Strategy Paper on Power Sector Reforms in February 1999. There followed a unique, innovative yet fasttrack reform process that ultimately resulted in the unbundling of the DVB and privatisation of distribution with effect from July 1, 2002. The Delhi power sector reforms are now being widely acclaimed." From mpisgplanner at yahoo.com Sun Oct 31 01:52:10 2004 From: mpisgplanner at yahoo.com (Gita Dewan Verma) Date: Sat Dec 4 15:38:55 2004 Subject: [Redevelopment] Comment on Draft National Environment Policy Message-ID: <20041031075210.701.qmail@web53808.mail.yahoo.com> Dear Madam / Sir, Comment on NEP on behalf of Master Plan Implementation Support Group has been sent vide letter of 26.10.2004. For reasons stated therein the letter has been sent to Secretary MoEF and is posted on the web and the url, for information / record via response eml id, is: http://plan.architexturez.net/site/dmp2021/ncmp/h/041026 In continuation of eml of 18.09.04 details of planning and development experts involved in drafting NEP are again requested. Yours sincerely, Gita Dewan Verma, MPISG Planner --- > Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 03:23:43 -0700 (PDT) > From: Gita Dewan Verma > Subject: Request for DNSP text in html or doc > format, etc > To: response-nep@nic.in > > Dear Sir / Madam, > > Draft National Environment Policy (DNEP), posted at > http://envfor.nic.in/nep.htm says it is "intended to > mainstream environmental concerns in all development > activities" (p.3) and "key environmental challenges > ... relate to the nexus of environmental degradation > with poverty ... and economic growth" (p.3). > However, > it makes no reference to planning and development > law > that does address these challenges or to processes > of > its subversion that do pose an emergent key > challenge. > > > I wish to comment on DNEP from this perspective and > would be grateful for the text in html or doc > format. > Actually I would prefer to discuss this with > planning > and development experts involved in DNEP, which does > say it was "prepared through a process of extensive > consultation with experts, as well as diverse > stakeholders, and this process is also documented" > (p.3), though chapter-6 (Process of formulation of > this policy) only says "(To be documented on > completion of the formulation process)" (p.39). I > would be grateful for names, etc, of planning and > development experts involved. > > I also seek clarification of how DNEP connects to > National Common Minimum Programme (not itself being > an > NCMP commitment while incorporating ideas for issues > that are NCMP priorities for which other policy > initiatives are expected). > > Yours sincerely, > Gita Dewan Verma, Planner > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From mpisgplanner at yahoo.com Sun Oct 31 09:10:44 2004 From: mpisgplanner at yahoo.com (Gita Dewan Verma) Date: Sat Dec 4 15:38:55 2004 Subject: [Redevelopment] Suspending Housing/Heritage section of NCMP-DMP Minder Message-ID: <20041031151044.96212.qmail@web53801.mail.yahoo.com> http://plan.architexturez.net/site/dmp2021/ncmp/h In October 2004 housing-rights NGOs have urged for NDA draft national slum policy and environmental NGOs for NDA draft national environment policy that these documents of dubious origin, designed to substitute conflict-resolving and problem-solving law, be adjusted to NCMP. And "regularisation" of inequitable and inefficient unplanned development, anyway continuing uninteruppted and unprotested in form of unlawful evictions and unlawful projects, has been extended to conditional promises for industries and colonies - to spawn a highly divisive debate, which misses the point that these promises mean little and what The Great Regularisation Mela seeks to "regularize" is The Great Terrain Robbery and anarchy and atrophy and all else without which loot cannot happen... --- This is the fourth NCMP-DMP minder section suspended in the last week (after Manufacturing / SSI, Commerce / informal sector, Facilities / education & health). The pattern is identical in all cases and seems to say: the weight of inertial discourse outweighs the weight of a nation’s mandate for change. PM’s review meeting tomorrow might have better news, but on NCMP-DMP minder it does look like NCMP has been comprehensively flouted and, for change, subversions seem to have become more sinister. Do check this one out, useful for avoiding the divide-and-loot trap. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail