Re: [IAC#RG] PUBLIC GRIEVANCE: DMRC - 00001

There have been several PILs on this all the way up to Supreme Court.
http://delhihighcourt.nic.in/dhcqrydisp_o.asp?pn=184573&yr=2011

All of them lost :-) DMRC has very good PR and network.
So those kinds of arguments won't work.
So I am taking a different approach.

On 9/11/13, Veeresh Malik <veereshmalik@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Sarbajit - good cause, let us follow it up?
>
> The case we can make is this:-
>
> 1) Delhi Metro is a "Public Authority" not deniable.
> 2) The right to fresh air and sweet/drinking water as per below is
> enshrined and ipso facto becomes incumbent on all public authorities to
> ensure provision of same (read both together, not separately)
> 3)Therefore ALL public authorities are bound by the Constitution to provide
> fresh air and sweet water.
>
> Now, is this free or is this at a price?
>
> Is fresh air priced? No, it is free.
>
> Therefore, sweet potable drinking water also has to be free.
>
> With a little tweaking, this can become an electoral issue.
>
> I will also search the Railway Act for this?
>
> Best/Veeresh
>
>
> Here's some ammo:-
>
> http://www.righttowater.info/progress-so-far/national-legislation-on-the-right-to-water/#IN
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> India
> <http://www.washwatch.org/southern-asia/india>
>
> The Supreme Court has ruled that both *water and sanitation* are part of
> the constitutional right to life (Article 21). The Court has stated that
> 'the right to access to *clean drinking water* is fundamental to life and
> there is a duty on the state under Article 21to provide clean drinking
> water to its citizens' A.P. Pollution Control Board II v Prof. M.V. Naidu
> and Others (Civil Appeal Nos. 368-373 of 1999).
>
> http://www.righttowater.info/progress-so-far/timeline/legal-redress/the-right-to-water-under-the-right-to-life-india-2/
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> On 11 September 2013 08:16, Sarbajit Roy <sroy.mb@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> To:
>> Shri Raj Kumar Kardam
>> Commissioner of Metro Rail Safety(Northern Circle).
>> CRIS COMPLEX, CHANAKYAPURI, NEW DELHI.
>>
>> Ref: DMRC/2013/E/00001
>> Date: 11-Sep-2013
>>
>> Sir
>>
>> PUBLIC GRIEVANCE:
>>
>> On behalf of the citizens I am constrained to complain as follows:-
>>
>> 1) That there is apparently no provision to provide free drinking
>> water to citizens at well marked and easily accessible locations in
>> the controlled ares of DMRC network/stations.
>>
>> 2) I am constrained to say this on the complaint of some police
>> officers to me at Rajiv Chowk Metro station who were discussing the
>> situation whereby they are denied drinking water facility and have no
>> place to even sit / conduct interrogations because DMRC has let out
>> the area marked for their Police Post in Rajiv Chowk Metro Station to
>> a well known coffee chain where water is sold at about Rs. 45 per 1
>> litre bottle.
>>
>> 3) For example, I am given to understand that the juvenile
>> offender/accused pickpocket "Pappu Kumar" age about 10 years
>> apprehended at about 8:00 PM at Rajiv Chowk was without drinking water
>> till about 11:45 PM after he was booked at Raja Garden Metro Police
>> Station, because there is no free drinking water available in the
>> controlled areas of DMRC for the Police to provide to him. This is
>> surely a human rights violation of citizens, seeing as how the
>> interrogation of the offender was conducted in the main control room
>> of Rajiv Gandhi Metro Station (where there is no drinking water either
>> to provide the offender/accused or the police).
>>
>> 4) Being greatly surprised at the information from the Delhi Police, I
>> conducted my brief initial enquiry and could confirm the same.
>>
>> Kindly look into the matter, as I am given to understand that the
>> control/supervision of design and operation of DMRC stations also
>> falls under your mandate.
>>
>> Kindly acknowledge this email by return indicating a time-line to
>> resolution by your office.
>>
>> With best wishes
>>
>> Er. Sarbajit Roy
>> National Convenor
>> India Against Corruption, jan andolan
>>
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>> New Delhi 110024
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