Tuesday 24 February, 2009

This is a quick response for shri Lalu's last rail budget
1.
Gimmicking of reduction in fares is usless since other supplementary charges are increased steeply.
2. Passenger needs the maximum service for their money value of ticket, be it in suburban overcrowded locals, immediate information, station cleanliness, safety of passengers, emergency needs etc.
3. He must give account of money used for safety purposes, worth Rs.5000/- crores taken as a safety charges from October 2001 onwards.
4. This safety charge was converted to development charge from April 2007 for making dedicated goods corridors for which the parliament standing committee on railways have objected. That is in effect the passengers are paying for this corridors.
5. After 60 years of independence, the railways could not built drainage filtering system in the stations. They just dump the defications on the tracks despite making Rs.10,000/- crore profit and having Rs 90,000/- crore in reserve.

For last 3 years we, at Mumbai passenger association are asking to implement the cyclic timetable for suburban local trains, even we have prepared ourselves and presented to cental and western railways but nothing moves despite umteen reminders personally.
-D. D. Panse
Member, Mumbai Suburban Rail Passengers' Association
PIL IN THE MATTER OF ILLEGAL HOARDINGS, WELCOME GATES,
BANNERS, FLAGS ERECTED FOR BJP NATIONAL EXECUTIVE MEET :

HIGH COURT EXPRESSED GREAT ANGUISH :
ORDERED MUNICIPAL COMMISSIONER TO
FILE DETAILED AFFIDAVIT IN THE MATTER
OF MASSIVE DEFACEMENT OF
CITY LOOK BY POLITICAL PARTIES !


Nagpur : 13th February, 2009,

NAGPUR BENCH OF BOMBAY HIGH COURT HAS EXPRESSED GREAT ANGUISH & DISPLEASURE ON INACTION ON THE PART OF NAGPUR MUNICIPAL CORPORATION AND CITY POLICE COMMISSIONER TO TAKE ACTION AGAINST THE OFFENDERS WHO DEFACED ENTIRE CITY LOOK BY ERECTING ILLEGAL ROAD CROSSING, HOARDINGS, WELCOME GATES, BANNERS, FLAGS ERECTED MAINLY FOR BJP NATIONAL EXECUTIVE MEET, WHICH POSED GREAT DANGER & HAZARDS TO THE ROAD TRAFIC SAFETY AND THE PUBLIC AT LARGE.

TODAY WHEN PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION (pil) writ peititon filed by vidarbha janandolan samiti president shri kishore tiwari taken up for further hearing, division bench (d.b.) HEADED BY JUSTICE DILIP SINHA & JUSTICE ASHOK BHANGALE AT Nagpur BENCH OF BOMBAY HIGH COURT EXPRESSED GREAT SHOCK ON THE MASSIVE DEFACEMENT OF CITY LOOK AT THE TIME OF BJP NATIONAL MEET CONCLUDED LAST WEEK AT Nagpur WHEN ENTIRE CITY ROADS WERE ENCROACHED BY ILLEGAL ROAD CROSSING WELCOME GATES, BANNERS, HOARDINGS ERECTED IN CONTRAVENTION OF PROVISIONS OF THE LAW AND HIGH COURT ORDERS. HON'BLE H.C. BENCH DIRECTED MUNICIPAL COMMISSIONER SHRI ASEEM GUPTA TO FILE DETAILED AFFIDAVIT IN THE MATTER.

IN THE MEANWHILE, PIL PETITIONER SHRI KISHORE TIWARI HAS SERVED NOTICE UNDER SECTION 80 OF CIVIL PROCEDURE CODE TO THE MUNICIPAL AUTHORITY AND STATE GOVERNMENT COMPLAINING THE FACT THAT BJP MEET PUBLICITY CAUSED LOSS OF NMC REVENUE TO THE TUNE OF RS. 3,59,00,000/- (RUPEES THREE CRORES FIFTY NINE LACS ONLY) DUE TO ILLEGAL BANNERS, POSTERS, WELCOME GATES / ARCHS, PATAKAS- TORANS, HOARDINGS FLAGS ERECTED BY BJP LEADER AND POLITICIAN DURING PERIOD 01.02.2009 TO TILL DATE IN VARIOUS PARTS OF NAGPUR CITY IN VIOLATION OF THE HC ORDER IN PIL AND PROVISIONS OF LAWS AND DEMANDING THE RECOVERY OF AMOUNT INCLUDING PENALTY FROM THE OFFENDERS. SHRI TIWARI HAS SUBMITTED DETAILED CD CONTAINING COPIES OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF ALL 6360 PHOTOGRAPHS OF SUCH ILLEGAL BANNERS, POSTERS, WELCOME GATES / ARCHS, PATAKAS- TORANS, HOARDINGS FLAGS ERECTED BY POLITICIAN IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF NAGPUR CITY. THE PIL PETITIONER HAS ALSO SERVED NOTICE OF CONTEMPT OF HIGH COURT ORDERS AGAINST ALL OFFICIALS AND OFFICE BEARERS OF NAGPUR MUNICIPAL CORPORATION, APART FROM SUBMITTING DETAILED COMPLAINT TO THE CHIEF SECRETARY SHRI JOHNY JOSEPH AGAINST THE INACTION OF MUNICIPAL COMMISSIONER ASEEM GUPTA WHO IS REPRESENTATIVE OF STATE GOVERNMENT FOR PROTECTION OF REVENUE AND RULE OF LAW AT NMC, BUT GREAT REVENUE LOSS HAS BEEN CAUSED TO NMC.

THE COUNSEL FOR PETITIONER ADV. SHRI FIRDOS MIRZA AND ADV. VINOD TIWARI DRAWN THE ATTENTION OF HON'BLE HIGH COURT, AS HOW POLITICIANS HAVE CAUSED DISRESPECT TO THE ORDERS OF HON'BLE HIGH COURT AND VIOLATED THE PROVISIONS OF LAW IN SUCH A LARGE SCALE WITHOUT BOTHERING THE INCONVENIENCE CAUSED TO THE PEDESTRIAN AND CITIZENS AT LARGE, BY THE OBSTRUCTIONS CREATED ON ALL ROADS. THE ENTIRE CITY LOOK WAS DEFACED SO BADLY THAT THE IMPRESSION CAN BE DRAWN THERE IS NO LAW ENFORCING AGENCIES IN NAGPUR CITY. DIVISION BENCH OF HON'BLE HIGH COURT HAS EXPRESSED GREAT ANGUISH & DISPLEASURE ON THE INCIDENCE OF DAY LIGHT VIOLATION OF LAW AS WITNESSED BY ENTIRE CITY. HON'BLE COURT ALSO EXPRESSED ITS DEEP REGRET ON THE IRRESPONSIBLE BEHAVIOR AND THE ATTITUDE OF THE POLITICAL PARTIES AND THEIR LEADERS, THE WAY IN WHICH ALL VIOLATION HAVE TAKEN PLACE.

IN TODAY'S HEARING, PIL PETITIONER WAS REPRESENTED BY ADV. SHRI FIRDOS MIRZA AND ADV. VINOD TIWARI AND STATE GOVERNMENT WAS REPRESENTED BY GOVERNMENT PLEADER ADV. SHRI NITIN SAMBRE, NMC WAS REPRESENTED BY ADV. SHRI SUDHIR PURANIK. HON'BLE HIGH COURT HAS ORDERED TO LIST THE MATTER IN 1ST WEEK OF MARCH, 2009 FOR FURTHER HEARING AND ORDERS ON PIL.

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