Re: [HumJanenge] First Time: Need Help!

Thanks for showing concern for saving the land from encroachment.  File another RTI, ask for the steps taken to prevent the encroachment.

Form a group of resident, send letter from top to high authorities, take help from media, ask for the personal meeting with authorities.  Other steps as suggested by resident in their collective wisdom.

Authorities generally cloes their eyes to such encroachment and it takes place such with the help of musslemen, property dealers and behind them, it is generally found some local politician having an eye on the votes of the encroachers in the next election politician plans to contest. Encraochers gets supports from local representatives.

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From: Mahesh Khera <mkkhera@yahoo.com>
To: humjanenge@googlegroups.com; mpisgplanner@yahoo.com
Sent: Monday, 17 October 2011 6:36 AM
Subject: Re: [HumJanenge] First Time: Need Help!

There is nothing wrong in Mr Panday's query. All he is asking is a legitimate way of preventing the local builder from monopolizing the "land for displaced" govt tag. There is nothing selfish in this. People like Mr Panday should be given correct advice with due respect rather than be dubbed as selfish in a brazen manner which vitiates otherwise very cordial and well meaning intent of this wonderful Humjanenge forum. Long live true RTI activists.

Warm regards,
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From: Sarbajit Roy <sroy.mb@gmail.com>

Sender: humjanenge@googlegroups.com

Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 22:42:54 +0530

To: <humjanenge@googlegroups.com>; <mpisgplanner@yahoo.com>

ReplyTo: humjanenge@googlegroups.com

Subject: Re: [HumJanenge] First Time: Need Help!

Dear Rajesh

1) Why are you trying to selfishly impose your middle class views on a statutory planning process ?

2) If a site is shown as "land for dispossessed" then ought it not to be used for that purpose ?

3) Town Planning is a holistic multi-layer heirarchial process. Myopic interference by ignorant people is the bane of professional planners with decades of experience and all the qualifications to match.

Sarbajit

On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Rajesh A. Pandey <rajeshapandey@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Friends @ Hum Janenge,

Greetings!!

I am using this forum for the first time to seek help & guidance from all of you for a small issue that touches the lives of around 450 Families in a small but growing town called Thane in Maharashtra.

We live in housing complex of 13 buildings in the outskirts of Thane city near Upvan Lake. For approximately 3500 residents & adjoining settlements/gaonthan, we do not have a designated park or an open designated space.

We have an open space surrounded by our buildings designated as "Land for Displaced" with an area of around 3000 Sq. Meters in government records. This space has been slowly encroached by local shanties & a local builder has kept his men on the land.

However major portion of the land is still open & we want to use this as public play ground or convert it into a park for which the apex body is ready to contribute. Currently we are maintaining the remaining open space as a small ground.

I want to know:

1. How can we get rid of the encroachment using the RTI?

2. Can we use RTI to convert the reservation on the land from Resettlement for Displaced to Green Zone?

3. How can we force the local body which is Thane Municipal Council to atleast clear whatever is available & create a boundary around the space?

Need Help!!!
Warm regards,

Rajesh A. Pandey
Thane, Maharashtra,
India.
rajeshapandey@gmail.com
# +91-9833377777

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