Bhrashta4: The corruption
India's way of life!
Eating into MCD or NDMC revenue?
(Story by Jyoti Narula)
New Delhi, Jan 1st, 2010
Can India ka dil be so corrupt?According to MCD laws, putting up of any advertisement material on the
gates put up for security purpose in the colonies is not allowed. The right
to put advertisement boards/hoardings on any public land is the sole prerogative of the
MCD or the NDMC (or any civic authority under whose jurisdiction the area falls under).
These authorities earn great revenues this way. In case these authorities are bye-passed
it is the loss of revenue for the exchequer. Hoardings of large companies like Voltas, Airtel
and many more can be seen on many colony gates violating all the laws.
The last photograph showing the glowing sign board is violation of electricity saving
guidelines too. The 'legal' signboards are switched off during peak hours in summer
but who will swich these off these illegal hoardings? This is worse that the guidelines
to save electricity are for the law-abiding citizens only. If you are doing something
illegal, you are not forced to abide by anything. "India ka dil, India ka AC",
they say. But we ask you,
"Can India ka dil be so corrupt? They are in fact 'robbing' the authorities in the
tune of crores of rupees every year according to our conservative estimate.
It is not known why
the authorities turn a blind eye to all this. These guidelines regarding colony gates
is on MCD's own website for long but surprisingly not visible easily in the new version of
the website. Anyway, it is very much in the rule books and ought to be complied to. It also
seems that the RWA's are never booked for violating the law in putting up of hoardings.
Newsjyoti has launched a campaign against this corruption and solicits your participation as the loss of revenue for authorities
is loss for all of us; as it is we all who then have to pay more taxes. Also when the load-
shedding takes place because of this wastage of electricity, it is we all who suffer.
Look out for more developments in the story of corruption
and the final results. Keep coming back to Newsjyoti; your own voice on net!
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