AN OPEN LETTER TO SHRI PRITHVIRAJ CHAVAN, HON’BLE CHIEF MINISTER OF MAHARASHTRA STATE & ALL OTHER MINISTERS OF COUNCIL OF MINISTERS, GOVERNENT OF MAHARASHTRA

DR. GOPAL LAXMAN KONDAWAR,

                      M.Sc., Ph.D., Fellow – I.E.H.

Founder President-Centre for Protection of Rights

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Ref. : GLK/BJPNG/ 179/2011                  Date :  14/05/2011

AN OPEN LETTER TO SHRI PRITHVIRAJ CHAVAN, HON’BLE CHIEF MINISTER OF MAHARASHTRA STATE

& ALL OTHER MINISTERS OF COUNCIL OF MINISTERS,

GOVERNENT OF MAHARASHTRA  

To,

           

RESPECTED SHRI PRITHVIRAJ CHAVAN,

HON’BLE CHIEF MINISTER OF MAHARASHTRA STATE

& ALL OTHER MINISTERS OF COUNCIL OF MINISTERS,

GOVERNENT OF MAHARASHTRA,

MANTRALAYA, MUMBAI – 400032

Through :- The Hon’ble Municipal Commissioner of N.M.C. Nagpur.

REG. GOVERNMENT OF MAHARASHTRA LAND BEING MISUSED FOR TOTALLY ILLEGAL AND UNLAWFUL PROJECT OF SO CALLED LANDON STREET PROJECT OF NAGPUR MUNICIPAL CORPORATION, INSTEAD OF UTILIZING THE SAID HUGE CHUNK OF GOVERNMENT LAND FOR LOW COST & AFFORDABLE HOUSING SCHEME NEEDY AND POOR FAMILIES IN LOWER INCOME GROUP / BPL.

SUB:  Request to take immediate steps to protect interest of NEEDY AND POOR FAMILIES IN LOWER INCOME GROUP / BPL. who all are in search of low cost & affordable housing

MUTE QUESTIONS:

HOW A GOVERNMENT ARRANGED LAND BEING USED FOR TOTALLY ILLEGAL AND UNLAWFUL PROJECT OF SO CALLED LANDON STREET PROJECT OF NAGPUR MUNICIPAL CORPORATION, INSTEAD OF UTILIZING THE SAID HUGE CHUNK OF GOVERNMENT LAND FOR LOW COST & AFFORDABLE HOUSING SCHEME NEEDY AND POOR FAMILIES IN LOWER INCOME GROUP / BPL ?

How such Private Commercial Project being promoted by Ruling B.J.P. against the mandate & provisions of N.M.C. Act ?

Hon’ble Shri Chavan Saheb & Other revered Ministers in the Council,

I am an admirer of policies of UPA – Congress NCP Aghadi Government in Maharashtra which are being pursed in the interest of poor and common man.  I always tried for the affordable housing to the poor & needy.

I am post graduate in the faculty of Science and also been awarded Doctoral Degree in the field of  Mathematics. I have contributed for the cause of upliftment of Education, building construction and infrastructure development in an around Vidarbha Region of Maharashtra State. Now I am devoting my time for the cause of Protection of Rights of common man as Guaranteed by  the Constitution of India, as a Founder President of Centre for Protection of Rights.

I am writing this letter to you in the matter of great injustice being called on poor and needy families in BPL & Lower Income Group who all are in search of affordable Housing in the city of Nagpur and the areas surrounding therein.  The way in which Ruling B.J.P. – Nagar Viaks Aghadi of Nagpur Municipal Corporation is misusing the provisions of N.M.C. Act to grab huge chunk of government land of Railway line of Defence which has been vacated by Indian Ordinance Board – Ambazari Defence Project on which the railway line was there and now the land has been vacated and given to government in lieu of equivalent land made available for the defence project in Pune and thus the land at Nagpur was handed over to Government of Maharashtra. 

The entire huge land in the prominent areas of Mauza Ajani, Khamla, Jaitala, Shivangaon etc. areas of Nagpur city can be utilized for the purpose of providing affordable housing and shelters for the BPL and LIG families in Nagpur but Ruling BJP-  NVA is now conspiring to use the said land for the totally illegal and unlawful project of Private Commercial BOT Project in the name and style of Landon Street Project and without any statutory provisions in the Nagpur Municipal Corporation Act, this is being pursued illegally and in contravention of legal provisions governing Nagpur Municipal Corporation no such project worth several hundred Crores can be proposed and proceeded therewith illegally. 

The said project is the brain child of BJP President Nitin Gadkari who is behind taking away the land which can be used for project of Low and affordable housing to the poor and needy persons / families in the Nagpur City.  But Ruling party and the Municipal administration is doing this illegally against the interest of poor and needy people who all are in search of affordable housing for which the said land is most suitable.

It is humbly submitted that in entire Nagpur city such a big piece of land is not at all available for affordable and low cost housing for LIG and BPL families.  As per the rough estimates more than one lac flats can be constructed on this huge chunk of land but without using the said land for affordable housing project , the Ruling BJP - NVA  in association with the NMC Officials is illegally planning to use the said land for illegal BOT Project in contravention of provisions contended in NMC Act. 

Hence, I solicit your humble intervention in the matter so that the interest of thousands of poor and needy BPL / LIG families who all are striving for small houses / shelters can be sorted out.  Similarly, all the slums, notified and un-notified, both can be shifted to such low housing schemes at this site of government land.  Hence this petition letter.

I hope, you will consider it favorably and the game plan of Gadkari can be demolished to use the said government land illegal BOT Project of Landon Street which is being pursued without any provision in the NMC Act and also there being any sanction from Government of Maharashtra in UDD. Hence this petition.

Thanking you,

Yours faithfully,

(Dr. Gopal Laxman Kondawar)                                                           

Founder President – Centre for Protection of Rights