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Delhi HC seeks action plan on street vending: ‘There will be jungle raj if anyone is allowed to set up a stall anywhere’

Delhi HC seeks action plan on street vending: 'There will be jungle raj if anyone is allowed to set up a stall anywhere'


The Delhi High Court Monday said that Delhi would become a ‘jungle’ in case everyone is allowed to start street hawking in the city, and asked the authorities, including the municipal bodies, to initiate the process of preparing the street vending plan as mandated under the Section 21 of the Street Vendors Act.

“There has to be a plan. There has to be a survey by a committee, Nothing of that (sort) has happened. The plan has not been even prepared. It cannot be that in the meantime the whole city is open. Anybody can walk in and start hawking and vending. The whole city will become a jungle… jungle raj, This cannot be permitted,” said the division bench of Justice Vipin Sanghi and Justice Amit Bansal during the hearing of a petition seeking removal of vendors from Connaught Place.

The court, on October 11, had directed the North Delhi Municipal Corporation and Delhi Police to remove illegal encroachers and vendors from Connaught Place. On Monday, the bench was informed that action has been taken, five FIRs have also been registered and certain goods have also been confiscated.

Addressing the Delhi government and the local authorities, the division bench Monday said that experts from the Public Works Department, School of Planning and Architecture, IIT and other planning bodies need to be consulted for the formulation of a plan on street vending which would include the specifications for density of vendors and norms for walkways in markets.

“We take the Act, the rules and the scheme are good, the problem we are seeing is in the implementation. Our objective is to not take it adversely. We want all the wings of administration, whether the GNCTD or corporations, to implement the provisions of the Act, then to our mind, we will have a city where it will be an organised activity of vending,” said the court, adding that street vending is an age-old activity.

However, the court continued, “We don’t want to curb it but we don’t want it to become a menace at the same time that you cannot even walk through the market or your pockets are picked because there is too much crowding. Therefore if a plan were to be prepared, you would be able to identify how many vendors you can accommodate”.



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Services of contract teachers to be renewed


As many as 586 contract teachers working in South Delhi Municipal Corporation schools who were unemployed for the past two years would now be reinstated under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, Mayor Mukesh Suryan has said.

The Indian Express had earlier reported that around 1,000 teachers from the North and the South civic bodies, including those who were on Covid duty, had been terminated.

The mayor said that admissions have been increasing in SDMC schools since last year, despite their closure due to the pandemic. Owing to this, there was a need for 600 teachers in these schools.

Education committee chairperson Nitika Sharma said that under the Sarv Siksha Abhiyan, the contract of these teachers has been renewed from October 18, 2021 to March 31, 2022.

Appointment letters will be issued after the submission of relevant documents.

The North Delhi Municipal Corporation had already re-engaged the contract teachers in its schools a few weeks ago.

These contractual teachers’ salary is around Rs 35,000 per month. There are 568 schools under the South, 354 under the East MCD and 700 under the North MCD.



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Delhi L-G transfers 7 IAS officers; Swati Sharma appointed health secretary


Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal transferred seven bureaucrats, with senior IAS officer Swati Sharma appointed as health secretary of the Delhi government, an official order stated.

The Delhi government’s Services department issued the transfer and posting order of these seven IAS officers of AGMUT (Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Mizoram and Union Territory) cadre where they have been given different responsibilities, according to the order dated October 18.

“Senior IAS officer of 2003 batch Swati Sharma has been given additional charge of Health and Family Welfare secretary of the Delhi government. She is currently posted as secretary (tourism) and has additional charges of art, culture and language along with MD Delhi Tourism and Transportation Development Corporation (DTTDC),” it said.

IAS officer of 2007 batch, Udit Prakash Rai has been transferred and posted as CEO Delhi Jal Board (DJB) from Director (Education). He will continue to have additional charge of special secretary Health and Family Welfare department.

The reshuffle in the health department is seen after Covid-19 cases have considerably gone down in the city.

Social Welfare secretary Garima Gupta has been transferred and posted as CEO Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB). She will continue to keep additional charge of MD Shahjahanabad Redevelopment Corporation (SRDC), the order said.

It added that 2003 batch IAS officer Neeraj Semwal will be the new secretary-cum-commissioner (Food and Supplies). He will also hold additional charge of MD Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC), relieving Ashish Kundra (AGMUT, 1996) of this charge.

Senior IAS officer of 2000 batch and secretary-cum-commissioner (development), Madhup Vyas has been given additional charge of secretary (Social Welfare).

The order said Deputy Commissioner of North Delhi Municipal Corporation, Himanshu Gupta (AGMUT, 2012) has been transferred and posted as director (Education) with additional charge of OSD Health and Family department along with MD DSFDC (Delhi SC/ST/OBD/Minorities and Handicapped Financial and Development Corporation).

PWD secretary and IAS officer of 2000 batch, Dilraj Kaur has been given additional charge of secretary I&FC (Irrigation and Flood Control), it added.



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Decomposer spraying begins in Delhi — amid some concerns


The Delhi government said it will continue to accept requests from farmers who have not yet applied to get the Pusa bio-decomposer sprayed on their fields. The exercise was flagged off Monday by Environment Minister Gopal Rai at Fatehpur Jat village in North Delhi’s Narela.

First on the list was 10 acres of Johnny Pehalwan’s basmati rice field. A tank filled with the solution was placed on a tractor and driven around the field, where it was sprayed over the stubble.

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4,140 acres to be covered

Of over 14,000 acres of land cultivated with paddy in Delhi, the decomposer is being sprayed on over 4,140 acres belonging to 844 farmers. It is mostly being sprayed on those fields harvested with a combine harvester, which leaves behind stubble that can be about half a foot tall, A P Saini, joint director (Agriculture), said. When paddy is harvested manually, the residue is shorter, he added.

Said Pehalwan, “We used to burn the stubble earlier. The solution was sprayed here last year as well, and we seem to have seen some increase in the yield of wheat this past season.” His paddy harvest, of which he made a profit this year, was sold at Narela mandi.

While the solution is sprayed for free, farm implements like the rotavator continue to remain out of reach for several farmers.

K Annapurna, former head of the Microbiology division at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute where the decomposer was developed, said a rotavator is a heavy implement that helps mix the decomposer with the straw and incorporates it in the soil. Moisture enhances decomposition, so the field would have to be irrigated after this. “These operations are a must for proper decomposition of paddy straw,” she added.

The government, however, has not made arrangements for farmers to access these. Rotavators are also not on the list of farm equipment eligible for government subsidy. “Farmers will have to make arrangements for one themselves,” said A P Saini, joint director (Agriculture).

Since small farmers have found it difficult to purchase farm implements, Pappan Singh Gahlot, a farmer from Tigipur village, has written to the district administration requesting help with procuring turning and baling machines and tractors. “Without basic implements how do you handle stubble?” he said.

Sahdev Maan, a farmer from Holambi Khurd village in North Delhi, whose tractor has been rented by the government for the spraying, said the decomposer is beneficial provided it is used correctly. Spraying began on 20 acres of his paddy field Monday.

However, he said most farmers are unlikely to have rotavators — the price of which starts at around Rs 90,000 — and added that some might make do with a harrow, a smaller implement attached to a tractor. Even borrowing rotavators can be expensive considering the use of diesel, he said.

Farmers also raised other difficulties. According to Gahlot, farmers in North Delhi often choose to grow a vegetable crop between paddy and wheat crops. Pehalwan concurred that spinach, which grows in about a month, is often grown after the paddy harvest and before wheat is sowed and said such farmers are unlikely to wait for the decomposer to work.

The decomposer can take around 15-20 days to convert the residue into compost, Dr Annapurna said.

Gahlot added that some farmers have already harvested the paddy, but others growing different varieties might be able to harvest only later, making it difficult to use the decomposer.

According to Saini, several farmers in Delhi continue to employ labourers to harvest their fields, since the straw left behind from the harvest can be sold. Wheat will begin to be sowed by the second week of November this year, he added.



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No money for salaries, Delhi civic bodies ask 1,000 contract teachers to go


The South and North Delhi municipal corporations have not renewed the contract of over 1,000 teachers, leaving many of them, including those who helped in ration distribution during the pandemic, jobless.

The East MCD, however, has not removed any of its contract teachers. The South MCD terminated the contract of 421 teachers while the North MCD removed 667 teachers.

Standing committee member and Congress councillor Suresh Kumar raised the issue in a meeting on Tuesday and said it was inhuman that the civic body had deserted them during a crisis. “They have been working for over ten years, where will they go now? Most can’t go and seek fresh jobs because of the age constraint.”

Anil Shokeen, a teacher employed in Lajpat Nagar, said: “We even distributed ration during Covid, risking our lives. Our contract used to get renewed in June, but it has not been renewed this year as well as last year.”

Standing committee chairperson of the South MCD, B K Oberoi, said that the civic body hired over 150 permanent teachers recently. “The finances of the corporation don’t allow it to pay for contract teachers as the Delhi government is not paying MCD its dues,” he said.

The East MCD has retained its teachers and is paying them under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan.

The issue has also led to a political slugfest, with AAP chief spokesperson Saurabh Bhardwaj saying it was shocking that on September 7, 2020, North MCD’s Education Department Headquarters wrote a letter to the Delhi Government conveying that they were firing their primary school teachers because schools were shut during the pandemic and they are not conducting physical classes. “The teachers are not even able to get ration for themselves because their salaries have not been paid by the MCD,” he said.

BJP spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor said these were contractual teachers whose salary is Rs 35,420 per month, which is paid under the Sarv Shiksha Abhiyan. The annual salary bill of these 667 contractual teachers is Rs 23.62 crore, out of which 25% is paid by the Centre while 75% is to be paid by the Delhi government.

The Delhi government stopped paying the salary of these contractual teachers in May 2020 after which North MCD had no option but to suspend their contracts, he said. Despite suspending them, North MCD has been writing to the Delhi government to pay their salaries so they can be reinstated, but in vain, he said.



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Delhi: North MCD gives itself clean chit in Sabzi Mandi building collapse


Two siblings died after a three-storey building collapsed in North Delhi’s Sabzi Mandi area. North MCD had then said that the ongoing construction in the building, which had led to collapse, was illegal.

As per sources, a report prepared by the corporation’s building headquarters says that it has been found that because the building was not in a dilapidated state and no one had complained about it, there has been no negligence on behalf of the corporation.

The commissioner of North MCD Sanjay Goel had ordered an inquiry into the incident to be conducted by the building department (headquarters) and said that necessary action against delinquent officials, if any, will be taken after receipt of the report.

The standing committee head of North MCD Jogi Ram Jain confirmed it and said that the clean chit has been given by the executive wing.

“It had come to light that on Sunday night the person started drilling and around 11 the building collapsed. In between, there was no complaint given to MCD or in the police. Our employees were not given any intimation. Had they known about it or were informed and no action was taken, then there would have been action against them,” he said.

He, however, said that the political wing would discuss it with others and explore the possibility of re-examining the case and if anyone is found guilty then there would be action.

The leader of opposition in North MCD Vikas Goel said, “what more do you expect in an investigation report prepared by MCD officials to investigate the role of their own department officers.”

“The whole drama is created just to pacify people for the time being and then to cover up the whole thing,” he said.

In Malka Ganj ward, where the building that collapsed is located, 20 properties were identified as dangerous — including nine on the same road, in the survey conducted before the monsoon. The building that collapsed, though, was not on the list.

Later another survey was done after house collapse in which around 18 buildings were identified as either needing to be demolished or requiring major retrofitting for providing structural stability in the same ward.

The collapse has yet again raised questions about what is being done by the building department of MCDs — councillors from BJP, AAP and Congress have often been critical of it during House meetings in the past. The councillors have often said that while the officials get immediate information whenever any fresh construction starts, there is no accountability.

In October 2018, when a building collapsed in north Delhi’s Ashok Vihar, which claimed seven lives, it was deemed a natural calamity. “There was continuous rainfall in Delhi during those days, eyewitnesses have said the tragedy took place due to the fall of a big dry tree and is like a natural disaster,” The north civic body had said in reply to questions asked by the leader of the opposition on factors.



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Process begins to dismantle Hawa Mahal-like structure


The process of dismantling of the building that looked like Jaipur’s iconic Hawa Mahal in Chandni Chowk has started after the trader who made it was told by the North Delhi Municipal Corporation to take it down.

The building, on the 1.3-km pedestrian stretch between Red Fort and Fatehpuri Masjid, was renovated by a Rajasthan-based trader and architect Ankit Keyal.

Keyal said, “I have started the process of dismantling and one floor has been removed. I made it with a lot of effort and to enhance the heritage look of Delhi. But I am helpless now that the authorities have asked me to take it down. I had thought that it would be appreciated but the whole issue is becoming very stressful for me.”

“I had invested all my savings in the project and once dismantled it will break and cannot be used,” he said. Keyal planned to open a garments shop.

The North MCD had last week asked the trader to take it down on grounds that it was a new construction when the trader had asked for repair permission and is beyond the permissible limit of six inches.

Leader of the standing committee of North MCD Jogi Ram Jain said people there were divided into two groups, some believed that it is adding to the beauty so it should be kept while others believed that if there are rule violations then it should go. “We have to go by laws,” he said.

“I have asked my engineers to check it. If as per rules some beautification could be allowed then we would allow it to that extent only,” Jain added.



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