Blind men at work: Central Vista is an illegitimate monument to deceit
It's been made possible by treating the law, independent institutions and, most of all, the public as enemies. https://www.newslaundry.com/2021/05/13/blind-men-at-work-central-vista-is-an-illegitimate-monument-to-deceit
The Central Vista Project is a tale of imperial power. By that definition, its deepest motivation is anti-democratic. It views the public with paranoia and kneecaps any institution that purports to undertake lawful process. It has no place in a democratic republic.
A relentless pitch about ‘modernity’ and ‘national identity’ has kept its anti-people hostility carefully hidden behind a narrative that gives Central Vista an undesirable ‘colonial’ colour. As if the names on India Gate are not those of Indians. As if our own Constitution was never debated and our own Republic never created in the only Parliament India has known for 74 years. As if Central Vista – despite being built by and paid for by Indians – never belonged to Indians because it was produced by the British whom this country freed itself from five generations ago.
Bit by bit, trick by trick: How Central Vista became a reality
It was submitted for approvals as a series of micro projects to an array of committees brought to heel through cunning and brute power. https://www.newslaundry.com/2021/05/19/bit-by-bit-trick-by-trick-how-central-vista-became-a-reality
By breaking up submissions into micro projects, no one can estimate any idea of the macro project itself or its collective impact on environment or heritage. The only people who know what the entire elephant will look like can be counted on one hand – essentially the architectural firm and the evaluation committee that chose it.
Every part of this project should have been submitted for approval to a standard list of required committees and agencies such as the Central Vista Committee, or CVC, the Heritage Conservation Committee, or HCC, and the Delhi Urban Art Commission, or DUAC. But submitting it in a million moving parts avoids easy tracking of what has been submitted, when or how.
Judgement Day:
"Central Vista essential project of national importance:" https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/delhi-high-court-refuses-to-halt-construction-of-central-vista-redevelopment-1-lakh-costs?fbclid=IwAR09YaivxnoWgVfMybZHavaLBno5fWq2w34-TVg9fCXuRo7ly1Mx6qgIAoo
The petitioners in the instant case, Anya Malhotra and Sohail Hashmi, had sought a stay on the construction of Central Vista due to the COVID-19 situation in the national capital and the threat posed by the construction work as a potential super spreader. The plea contended that there was no rationale for classifying the Central Vista project as an “essential service”, merely because some executive mandated contractual deadline was ostensibly required to be met.
The Central government opposed the plea, stating that the construction activities currently ongoing in and around Rajpath and India Gate do not pertain to the new Parliament building or new offices for the Central government. Instead, the current construction is with respect to public spaces visited by people and tourists at Raj Path and includes building public amenities like new toilet blocks, parking spaces, pedestrian underpasses etc, it was contended. The Centre also claimed that contrary to the claims of the petitioner, there was a medical facility at the site and that workers will have access to such medical facility.
CCG LETTER TO THE PRIME MINISTER ON DISTURBING DEVELOPMENTS IN LAKSHADWEEP 5th June 2021 https://constitutionalconduct.com/2021/06/05/ccg-letter-to-the-prime-minister-on-disturbing-developments-in-lakshadweep/
Mindful of the intimate and symbiotic bonds between the land, climate, culture and livelihoods of the local population, the Central government has, over the decades, tried to pursue an environmentally sound and people-centric development policy towards the islands through a centrally appointed Administrator
It is clear that each of these draft regulations is part of a larger agenda that is against the ethos and interests of the islands and islanders. Claiming that there has been no development in Lakshadweep for the past seventy years, the LDAR reflects a model of land and tourism development which includes resorts, hotels and beachfronts on the ‘Maldives model’ unmindful of the differences between the two island groups in size, population, number of islands and their spread. Draft provisions that permit “building, engineering, mining, quarrying or other operations in, on, over or under land, the cutting of a hill or any portion thereof or the making of any material change in any building or land or in the use of any building including sub-division of any land” for highways etc. in small islands that barely exceed 3-4 kms in length, constitute a serious threat to the fragile ecosystem of Lakshadweep.
The present Administrator’s various measures, including the introduction of the three new Regulations and the modification of an existing Regulation, seem entirely misconceived, opening the islands to predatory development and threatening to disrupt and displace a peaceful island community and change their lives for the worse. We urge that these measures be withdrawn forthwith, the UT be provided with a full-time, people-sensitive and responsive Administrator,
लक्ष्यदीप पर प्रस्ताव पास, मोदी की मंशा चकनाचूर, केरल ने कमाल कर दिया https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKaY5luWIuA
#SaveLakshadweep, नफ़रती एजेंट प्रफुल्ल के. पटेल को वापस बुलाए मोदी सरकार https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqFWI9fLIEc खोज ख़बर में वरिष्ठ पत्रकार भाषा सिंह ने जायजा लिया भारत के सुंदरतम इलाके लक्षद्वीप से उठी पुकार का #SaveLakshadweep. सबसे शांतिप्रिय भारतीयों को भाजपाई नफ़रत में झोंकने पर उतारू प्रशासक प्रफुल्ल के. पटेल के ख़िलाफ़ चल रहे आंदोलन के विभिन्न पहलुओं को एक कड़ी में पिरोया।
Ram Punyano explains Lakwadeep Situation https://youtu.be/S2SBToZQoV8?t=118
Statement and appeal on the retrograde moves in the Union Territory of Lakshadweep by Vikalp Sangam https://vikalpsangam.org/article/press-release-immediately-withdraw-retrograde-steps-in-lakshadweep/
The measures taken and proposals adopted by the administration are in violation of the Directive Principles of State Policy of the Constitution.
From Ashish Kothari:
both our island groups are under attack by the central govt. A&N are being targeted for 'development' of the most bizarre kind, wanting to make one
or two of its islands ,which are currently home to indigenous people as also rainforests and coral reefs, into something like Singapore etc . Lakshadweep is being targetted similarly
for massive tourism, but also blatantly to undermine its Islamic culture
(some articles by Pankaj below)
On A&N
Green panel allows Great Nicobar plan to advance https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/energy-and-environment/green-panel-allows-great-nicobar-plan-to-advance/article34521310.ece
Citizens file RTI applications on Niti Aayog plans for the Andaman & Nicobar islands:
https://india.mongabay.com/2021/04/citizens-file-rti-applications-on-niti-aayog-plans-for-the-andaman-nicobar-islands/
21 March 2021. 'Niti Aayog vision for Great Nicobar ignores tribal, ecological concerns: https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/energy-and-environment/niti-aayog-vision-for-great-nicobar-ignores-tribal-ecological-concerns/article34120093.ece
15 Feb 2021. 'Leatherback nesting sites could be overrun by Andamans projects':
https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/energy-and-environment/leatherback-nesting-sites-could-be-overrun-by-andamans-project/article33845010.ece
01 Feb 2021. 'NITI Aayog's megacity plan for Little Andaman alarms conservationists': https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/financial-tourist-complex-on-little-andaman-a-bullet-through-an-islands-heart/article33710255.ece
On Lakshadweep
https://countercurrents.org/2021/05/tiny-dots-on-the-map-for-you-but-home-for-me/
https://countercurrents.org/2021/06/letter-from-the-sisters-of-lakshadweep/
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