[IAC#RG] Complaint of FRAUD and CORRUPTION on citizens of Delhi in matter of WiFi

To:
Honble LG of Delhi, through
Pr. Secretary to Hon'ble LG of Delhi

Kind Attn:: Ms. Nutan Guha Biswas / Mr.S.C L Das

Date: 02-June-2015

Dear Ms. Biswas / Mr. Das

I refer to the email from your office 12.May.2015 and am shocked by later press reports dated 24 May 2015 (quoting unnamed senior government officers) indicating that GoNCTD is proceeding with WiFi in Delhi scheme

I would have hoped that the GoNCTD would have reconsidered its unwise decision to hastily proceed with this scheme without proper public accountability and transparency,

Accordingly I am complaining as follows.

1) That vide MHA order dated 24.11.2014 Mr.Arun Baroka,Secy (IT)/GoNCTD ought to have been transferred long ago to Andaman and Nicobar UT on 15 Feb 2015, but is somehow staying on in Delhi through "lobbying" and by acquiesing in and notifying some highly improper actions of present Chief Minister of Delhi and his Cabinet, such as

a) Notification of Delhi Dialogue Commission (In his capacity as Secy/AR)
b) Promotion of WiFi in Delhi scheme (In his capacity as Secy/IT)

http://wwv.asianage.com/delhi/ministry-home-affairs-forces-major-bureaucratic-reshuffle-642

I am also given to understand from DoPT website that Mr. Arun Baroka is on superannuation.

2) That after its formation, the so-called Delhi Dialogue Commission (which incidentally has plagiarised the term "Delhi Dialogue") had appointed a 3 member "expert" task force to implement a supposedly "free" Wifi in Delhi scheme.

I am aggrieved that the members of this so-called "expert" task force of Delhi Dialogue Commission were deliberately and secretly selected by Chief Minister of Delhi to ensure that they have no or few (known) formal technical qualifications to be described as "experts" for this highly technical venture involving hundreds of thousands of crore rupees in prospective licence fees.

For instance from the Internet I learn about its members that
a) Mr. Pranesh Prakash is apparently an Arts graduate,
b) Mr. Mahesh Murthy is apparently a college dropout
c) Mr. Nikhil Pahwa seems to be qualified from online websites like Coursera.

3) That I had responded to a public notice inviting comments from stakeholders in Delhi, issued by Secretary/IT, on WiFi in Delhi scheme and I was thus invited to a so-called stakeholders consultation on 27 April 2015 in GoNCTD Secretariat Bldg which I attended.

However, I was shocked to find that the technical proceedings of this consultation were actually being conducted by one Mr. Adarsh Shastri whereas Mr. Arun Baroka/Secy/IT/GoNCTD was sitting like a dummy throughout and in fact Mr. Baroka left the proceedings midway and the session was shortly terminated without substantive discussions. In other words the so-called stakeholders consultations were a fraud publicly conducted inside official GoNCTD premises by an imposter in Secy/IT's presence.

I am therefore aggrieved that Mr. Adarsh Shastri is not a government officer and had absolutely no business being present at the session or being allowed to conduct the proceedings to which I was invited or even to have had access to my comments submitted to Secy/IT/GoNCTD..

It is also not known to me what technical qualifications Mr. Adarsh Shastri possesses to moderate such a highly technical and controversial subject or to sit above myself while dissecting it. It seems that whereas Mr. Adarsh Shastri widely misrepresents himself as having a "MBA degree", his formal technical qualifications, if any, are unknown.

4) I am further aggrieved by press reports that the Wifi technology being considered effectively has a limited range of around  50 meters per node. It could thus conceivably take around 500 nodes/Access devices/Towers per sq.km of coverage, and need around 5 lakh such nodes/towers to cover the public areas/spaces of Delhi. The annual licence fee set by DoT is around Rs. 20 lakhs from each user of a co-sited static radio transmission tower. The operators of the backhauls would also gain by huge amounts by providing such kind of internet services. The "lost" revenue from 5 lakh WiFi nodes is likely to be considerable, and explains why officers like Mr Arun Baroka are not being transferred out of Delhi.

I would therefore request you to kindly inquire into my complaint/s and ensure that there is no hanky-panky in this WiFi scheme which entails a) loss of revenue to GoNCTD or any municipal corporation  b) wrongful gain in/of public property/spaces to private persons/entities c) any other loss / wrongful gain, d) all persons involved in approving this scheme are properly qualified.

NB: It is trite to mention that telecommunications is a Union list subject and role/motive of Shri Arvind Kejriwal's Cabinet for providing highly valuable commercial internet resources to the public "free" needs to be properly explained and investigated.

Sincerely

Er. Sarbajit Roy
B-59 Defence Colony
New Delhi 110024

Tel :011-24334262
http://www.indiaagainstcorruption.org.in/

On 5/12/15, LISTENING POST <lggc.delhi@nic.in> wrote:
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> From: S C L DAS <seclg@nic.in>
> Date: May 12, 2015 11:24:00 AM
> Subject: Fwd: Re: Complaint of FRAUD and CORRUPTION on citizens of Delhi in
> matter of WiFi
> To: lggc.delhi@nic.in
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Sarbajit Roy <sroy.mb@gmail.com>
> Date: Monday, May 11, 2015 12:47 pm
> Subject: Re: Complaint of FRAUD and CORRUPTION on citizens of Delhi in
> matter of WiFi
> To: csdelhi <csdelhi@nic.in>, secyit <secyit@nic.in>, achagti
> <achagti@yahoo.com>, osdlg <osdlg@nic.in>, seclg <seclg@nic.in>
> Cc: pspwd <pspwd@nic.in>, indiaresists <indiaresists@lists.riseup.net>
>
>> To:
>> The Chief Secretary
>> Govt of NCT of Delhi
>>
>> cc: Secretary to Hon'ble L-G, New Delhi
>>
>> Dear Sir
>>
>> I refer to all my recent emails in connection with "WI-FI in
>> Delhi". I
>> am concerned that my several public grievance complaints to you and
>> also to Secy/IT/GoNCTD are all unacknowledged and unanswered.
>>
>> Since there is no reply to me and nor is any acknowledgement of my
>> complaints given to me, it is not clear how Mr. Arun Baroka continues
>> to be in New Delhi when he should be in Andaman and Nicobar UT
>> as per
>> the transfer orders in his case from Joint Cadre Authority sent to
>> your office on 24.Nov.2014 from MHA asking him to be relieved w.e.f
>> 15.02.2015.
>>
>> As I have great concern that the transfer / relieving orders are being
>> manipulated to ensure that some specific telecom service
>> providers be
>> wrongly benefited by GoNCTD through this corrupt "Wifi in Delhi"
>> scheme of the Aam Aadmi Party, I am again requesting that
>> complete and
>> transparent due stakeholder consultation processes should be followed
>> and so that GoNCTD is not embarrassed in future..
>>
>> NB: Kindly note that if I do not promptly receive
>> acknowledgment/s of
>> my complaints along with immediate complete suo-moto public disclosure
>> compliance on the GoNCTD website, I shall be agitating these matters
>> outside of GoNCTD hereon -and against the officers and
>> departments I
>> am aggrieved with.
>>
>> Sincerely
>>
>> Er. Sarbajit Roy
>> B-59 Defence Colony
>> New Delhi 110024
>>
>> Tel :011-24334262
>> http://www.indiaagainstcorruption.org.in/
>>
>> On 5/7/15, Sarbajit Roy <sroy.mb@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > To:
>> > Chief Secretary
>> > Govt of NCT of Delhi
>> >
>> > Dear Sir
>> >
>> > I refer to all my recent emails in connection with "WI-FI" in
>> Delhi. I
>> > am concerned that my complaints to you and also to
>> Secy/IT/GoNCTD are
>> > all unacknowledged and unanswered.
>> >
>> > I am caused to protest that the GoNCTD is implementing the Aam Aadmi
>> > Party's deeply corrupt scheme to provide WifI in Delhi which shall
>> > benefit a few chosen TSPs. It is an open secret that Aam Aadmi Party
>> > had entered into corrupt pre-poll arrangements with certain
>> TSPs which
>> > are now sought to being encashed by them.
>> >
>> > Recent judgements from the TDSAT show that the annual rental
>> for each
>> > telecom transmission tower in A+ city like Delhi is at least Rs.20
>> > lakhs per tower per infrastructure user on co-sited basis, and is
>> > annual revenue running into several hundreds of crore rupees which
>> > would accrue to the concerned municipality / land owner.
>> >
>> > Hence, it is not clear why the GoNCTD has taken this
>> task,which being
>> > "telecom" is in the Union list, through its Information Technology
>> > Department. It is also not clear why Shri A.Baroka,
>> Secy/IT/GoNCTD is
>> > taking interest in this project just shortly before he is being
>> > transferred to UT of Andaman and Nicobar - where officers of his
>> > caliber are badly needed.
>> >
>> > In this connection, it is well known that Information
>> Technology Dept
>> > of GoNCTD a) is not a public dealing department, b) has no norms
>> > published for dealing with members of public /stakeholders in
>> > formulation or implementation of policy, c) has hardly any
>> technically> qualified persons to evaluate such a complex
>> project d) is only a
>> > rubber stamp for this perceived fraud.
>> >
>> > NB: I am attaching the RTI disclosure of ITDept/GoNCTD in
>> support of
>> > my aforesaid grievance/s.
>> >
>> > Kindly therefore act on the same immediately,and ensure that proper
>> > and transparent involvement of all stakeholders who responded
>> to the
>> > public notice issued by Secy/IT/GoNCTD is assured and there is no
>> > hanky panky in dealing with our submissions.
>> >
>> > sincerely
>> >
>> > Sarbajit Roy
>> > (A concerned citizen of India and resident of New Delhi)
>> > Mob :08010205897
>> >
>
> Mrs Nutan Guha Biswas
> Principal Secretary to Lt. Governor,
> Delhi.
>
>
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> In-Charge LG's Listening Post
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