After all our efforts, it is only the results that keep us going.At the end of a tired day at work, it is only a fight won against the evil forces, that can bring a smile back on our face.
Remember the mail we have sent to you few days back regarding the work we have done in bus stations to get all the shops registered ?We are amused to see the results today.
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Friday, June 4, 2010
RTI's on unclogging of Hussain Sagar Surplus nala
Dear All,
As monsoon season is nearing in couple of months, Hyderabadis may have to face the drainage related issues yet. There could be adverse affect with nalas which are going to inundate/flood the low lying areas. Spells of heavy rain can lead to huge quantities of water being discharged from the lake. This, in turn, will inundate at least 15 slums, bastis and even colonies which are downstream of the Hussainsagar.
Event : Monitoring cleaning/unclogging of Nalas and creating awareness among nearby residents
Date proposed as per the current plan : JULY
Nalas under interest : Hussain Sagar Surplus nals
Purpose : To clean/unclog the nalas to allow free flow of drainage water which is currently not happening due to lot of sloid sewage/garbage in these nalas.
Issues that we see currently :
The final solution for this issue is remodelling and widening of nalas which has been taken up by GHMC few years ago as per Kirloskar recommendations .However, they couldn't make much progress on this due to thousands of encroachments and political interventions.GHMC couldn't use the funds allocated by central government due to this encroachments and this work is pending for years.
Hence, they have come up with a temporary plan.i.e.cleaning/unclogging of nalas to allow free flow, in which we are taking part.
Action Plan :
Team confirmed as of now : Azeez, Pradeep. Praveen, Subbu
Please let us know if you would like to be a part of this activity. Kindly confirm your registration. We will keep you all updated on this event.(Mail us on abdulazeez1984@gmail.com)
Please join us(loksattasanjeevani@googlegroups.com) in these activities and let us all work for the betterment of society that we all dream of, every minute and every day.
Regards,
Loksatta Sanjeevani
If you damn a river it stagnates. Running water is beautiful water. So be a channel.
As monsoon season is nearing in couple of months, Hyderabadis may have to face the drainage related issues yet. There could be adverse affect with nalas which are going to inundate/flood the low lying areas. Spells of heavy rain can lead to huge quantities of water being discharged from the lake. This, in turn, will inundate at least 15 slums, bastis and even colonies which are downstream of the Hussainsagar.
Event : Monitoring cleaning/unclogging of Nalas and creating awareness among nearby residents
Date proposed as per the current plan : JULY
Nalas under interest : Hussain Sagar Surplus nals
Purpose : To clean/unclog the nalas to allow free flow of drainage water which is currently not happening due to lot of sloid sewage/garbage in these nalas.
Issues that we see currently :
- Contractors - Not taking the responsibility of completing the work properly.
- Wastage of public money : There are crores of rupees being spent by the govt' to clear these nalas every year. and yet, no proper action is being taken. It goes without saying that 'our' own money is wasted in this total sequence.
- People of abutting apartments - There are some apartments abutting nala who throw their garbage directly into these nalas without any second thought !
- Garbage collection Timings : People are not aware of the timings of the garbage collection and with this excuse ever ready, they are conveniently throwing the garbage into nalas right through their window.
The final solution for this issue is remodelling and widening of nalas which has been taken up by GHMC few years ago as per Kirloskar recommendations .However, they couldn't make much progress on this due to thousands of encroachments and political interventions.GHMC couldn't use the funds allocated by central government due to this encroachments and this work is pending for years.
Hence, they have come up with a temporary plan.i.e.cleaning/unclogging of nalas to allow free flow, in which we are taking part.
Action Plan :
- Creating awareness in local people with contractor details, frequency of the work, amount beind paid to them, affect of diseases like Malaria.
- Keeping them updated on garbage collection timings.
- Following up with GHMC officials on monitoring the work.
- Contractor details - Download
- Garbage Collection timings - Download
- Status on implementing Kirloskar recommendations - Download
Team confirmed as of now : Azeez, Pradeep. Praveen, Subbu
Please let us know if you would like to be a part of this activity. Kindly confirm your registration. We will keep you all updated on this event.(Mail us on abdulazeez1984@gmail.com)
Please join us(loksattasanjeevani@googlegroups.com) in these activities and let us all work for the betterment of society that we all dream of, every minute and every day.
Regards,
Loksatta Sanjeevani
If you damn a river it stagnates. Running water is beautiful water. So be a channel.
Success story of RTI - Raghavendra Infosys
Please find below the success story of Raghavendra, who fought with GHMC using RTI, since he was not getting yearly house tax. Please read till the end to know how he bacame successful in this regard. We appreciate Raghavendra for his efforts and his sincerity. If any of you are facing the same problem and looking for some help, please do write to us at : loksattasanjeevani@gmail.com or abdulazeez1984@gmail.com.
Presenting below, the complete details, in his own words .
I want to share my RTI success story which I filed to deputy commissioner GHMC regarding of not getting yearly house tax.
I raised a complaint to Deputy Commissioner GMHC on 2nd Aug 2008 stating that we are not getting yearly house tax and I am submitting required copies of registration papers of house and Please guide us so that we get house tax every year regularly.
I visited GMHC office literally 5-6 times before and after raising the complaint, there was no proper response from any official.
After I raised the complaint it got redirected to our area bill collector, The bill collector and the concerned tax inspector were in no mood to tell me the complete process involved in getting the tax.
If they tell us the proper procedure their importance will be gone and most importantly their alternate source of income will go for a toss may be main source of income.
They mention that document is not there this is not there and finally even after providing them all the require documents there is no progress.
At last I was able to know the reason for not getting tax, it is because our house number got deleted from their online data base.If I was ready to pay few hundreds my work would have been done in no time, they read my intention so my application was not moving forward.
This experience reminded me of serial Office Office(pankaj kapur starrer used to come in SAB TV) :).
Finally I got with busy with my own work and forgot the whole issue.
On 15th Mar 2010, I filed an RTI to Deputy Commissioner GMHC attaching the complaint I made on 2nd Aug 2008 requesting for the below information through registered post(it cost me 36 rs).
"Please send me the copies of documents regarding the actions taken by you on my complaint from the date of the complaint made"
A week later, the bill collector was at my door steps asking me sir why you have raised the complaint you would have called me once, I would have solved your problem. I told him I didn’t raise the complaint I just asked for the information he replied its more than a complaint for him now.
Later he requested me to cooperate and give him couple of days for the request to get completed.
Yesterday we received the documents by hand at our home related to the ID generation for paying the tax.
This time I didn’t even stepped out of my house, just filed an RTI that shows the power of RTI.
Couple of points to be noted:
Regards,
Raghav
Presenting below, the complete details, in his own words .
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Hi All,I want to share my RTI success story which I filed to deputy commissioner GHMC regarding of not getting yearly house tax.
I raised a complaint to Deputy Commissioner GMHC on 2nd Aug 2008 stating that we are not getting yearly house tax and I am submitting required copies of registration papers of house and Please guide us so that we get house tax every year regularly.
I visited GMHC office literally 5-6 times before and after raising the complaint, there was no proper response from any official.
After I raised the complaint it got redirected to our area bill collector, The bill collector and the concerned tax inspector were in no mood to tell me the complete process involved in getting the tax.
If they tell us the proper procedure their importance will be gone and most importantly their alternate source of income will go for a toss may be main source of income.
They mention that document is not there this is not there and finally even after providing them all the require documents there is no progress.
At last I was able to know the reason for not getting tax, it is because our house number got deleted from their online data base.If I was ready to pay few hundreds my work would have been done in no time, they read my intention so my application was not moving forward.
This experience reminded me of serial Office Office(pankaj kapur starrer used to come in SAB TV) :).
Finally I got with busy with my own work and forgot the whole issue.
On 15th Mar 2010, I filed an RTI to Deputy Commissioner GMHC attaching the complaint I made on 2nd Aug 2008 requesting for the below information through registered post(it cost me 36 rs).
"Please send me the copies of documents regarding the actions taken by you on my complaint from the date of the complaint made"
A week later, the bill collector was at my door steps asking me sir why you have raised the complaint you would have called me once, I would have solved your problem. I told him I didn’t raise the complaint I just asked for the information he replied its more than a complaint for him now.
Later he requested me to cooperate and give him couple of days for the request to get completed.
Yesterday we received the documents by hand at our home related to the ID generation for paying the tax.
This time I didn’t even stepped out of my house, just filed an RTI that shows the power of RTI.
Couple of points to be noted:
- If we are not getting proper response from any official let’s ask them to put the same on a paper and give it to us, we should not accept anything in oral.
- We can complain the same to higher authority still no response, file an RTI, RTI really Works.
Regards,
Raghav
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Thanks to Raghavendra again for providing the same RTI and also the complaint.
RTI on construction of harvesting pits in GHMC
Dear All,
Water sustains life.It is now our duty to sustain all sources of water. It is high time that we collectively address the problem of water shortage and make water conservation a global mission. In this regard,Understanding the raising importance of this activity, we, as a team, making sure that GHMC is implementing the WALTA(Water, land and Tree) act properly, which expects each house constructed in area more than 200 yards space, to have a harvesting pit. Complete details about the event, purpose, advantages below.
Event : Rain water harvesting, Construction of harvesting pits.
What is Rain Water Harvesting :Conservation of roof top rain water in urban housing complexes and institutional buildings having larger area and utilizing the same to augment ground water storage, existing wells, tube wells etc is known as rain water harvesting.
Purpose : To make sure that each house which is constructed in more than 200 yards area, contains a harvesting pit.
Current Issues :
This RTI has been filed to know the information of the amount paid and harvesting pits constructed in Himayath Nagar area. Along with this RTI, sample RTI has also been attached to make it easy for others to file in their respective area.
Please download RTI filed for Himayath Nagar Area and Model RTI here
Please join us in these activities and let us all work for the betterment of society that we all dream of, every minute and every day.
Regards,
Loksatta Sanjeevani
Striving for success without hardwork is like trying to harvest where you have not planted..!
Water sustains life.It is now our duty to sustain all sources of water. It is high time that we collectively address the problem of water shortage and make water conservation a global mission. In this regard,Understanding the raising importance of this activity, we, as a team, making sure that GHMC is implementing the WALTA(Water, land and Tree) act properly, which expects each house constructed in area more than 200 yards space, to have a harvesting pit. Complete details about the event, purpose, advantages below.
Event : Rain water harvesting, Construction of harvesting pits.
What is Rain Water Harvesting :Conservation of roof top rain water in urban housing complexes and institutional buildings having larger area and utilizing the same to augment ground water storage, existing wells, tube wells etc is known as rain water harvesting.
Purpose : To make sure that each house which is constructed in more than 200 yards area, contains a harvesting pit.
Current Issues :
- Ecological imbalance.
- Decline in levels of ground water in Hyderabad.
- Majority of people are not aware of WALTA Act.
- Even though GHMC is collecting the money, it is not being used for the construction of harvesting pits.
- 98% of rain water goes waste into drainage without entering into ground, as there are no harvesting pits.
- To meet over the increasing demand for water in urban area.
- To reduce the run off which is increasing the load on storm drains.
- To avoid the damage to roads by preventing erosion.
- To augment the ground water storage and to control decline of water level.
- To improve the quality of ground water .
- To reduce the soil erosion.
- Rain water can be used efficiently.
- To improve the quality of existing ground water through dilution. since rain water is bacteriologically safe and free from organic matters and is soft in nature.
- Utilization of taxes collected for the purpose of Harvesting pits
This RTI has been filed to know the information of the amount paid and harvesting pits constructed in Himayath Nagar area. Along with this RTI, sample RTI has also been attached to make it easy for others to file in their respective area.
Please download RTI filed for Himayath Nagar Area and Model RTI here
Please join us in these activities and let us all work for the betterment of society that we all dream of, every minute and every day.
Regards,
Loksatta Sanjeevani
Striving for success without hardwork is like trying to harvest where you have not planted..!
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