Dear Friend

WE ARE GLAD TO SHARE WITH YOU THAT OUR EFFORTS AND STRUGGLE FOR YAMUNA HAVE STARTED SHOWING RESULTS

- ALL CONSTRUCTIONS INCLUDING RESIDENTIAL FLATS FOR METRO , HELIPAD, FORMULA1 ETC. HAVE BEEN STOPPED BY HON'BLE L.G. AND ARE NOW REQUIRED TO SOUGHT APPROVAL FROM Y.R.D.A.

GAMES VILLAGE IS THE ONLY EXCEPTION TO THE ORDER , BUT WE ARE QUITE HOPEFUL FROM THE PROGRESS OF PROCEDDINGS ON P.I.L.

YAMUNA SATYAGRAHA WAS STARTED FROM 1st AUGUST 2007, SINCE LAST 169 DAYS THIS MOVEMENT HAS GROWN AND SLOWLY BUT FIRMLY IT IS TURNING INTO A MASS MOVEMENT.

"YOUTH FOR JUSTICE" IS ALL GEARED UP TO TAKE THE FIGHT TO ITS LOGICAL END i.e. SAVING YAMUNA RIVER FROM LOOT AND KILLING IN THE NAME OF COMMONWEALTH GAMES.

WE INVITE YOU TO WITNESS ANOTHER HISTORY IN THE

ON

30th JANUARY 2008

AT

5:00 PM

CENTRAL PARK

CANNAUGHT PLACE

NEW DELHI

WATCH AND JOIN PEOPLES STRUGGLE

FOR YAMUNA WHILE IT ENTERS THE NEXT PHASE

- Youth For Justice

"WE ARE THE CHANGE WE WANT TO SEE"

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UPDATE ON P.I.L.- 08-01-08

If today's proceeding in the court is any indication then it seems that the day of reckoning for the DDA as well as the MOEF is not far off. Today it was the turn of Sri S M Agrawal, the Convenor of the HC appointed Committee called the Usha Mehra Committee for the removal of encroachments from the river, to make his submissions before the bench. (Kindly recall Usha Mehra Committee's Report to the court posted before on this list in the matter). Today was also the first day of hearing after the Hon'ble Judges had made an on the site inspection of the site on 3.1.08 Sri Agrawal, using various documents and most importantly reading out excerpts from previous judgements of SC as well as HC very lucidly established the fact that the DDA had acted against the doctrine of public trust and in violation of various court orders in planning and constructing a residential complex in the garb of the Games Village in the river bed as well as selling the river bed to the DMRC for a Depot, a Yard, residential complex, stations and a Metro mall. Sri Agrawal was also to a great extent able to clarify based on documents and court orders regarding an element of doubt which had purposefully and deliberately been created by the Hon'ble Solicitor General on the previous day regarding whether the area in question is the river bed or not. Sri Agrawal it seems has more in store, which he shall submit further on next Tuesday (15.1.08) when he shall resume his submissions, curtailed today before time, for the bench had to leave to attend a condolence meet. One must acknowledge the patience and sincerity of the bench for the manner in which it is providing good time to all concerned and trying to get to the bottom of the 'game' which is not very easy to fathom since the so called 'National Prestige' associated with the hype around the Commonwealth Games can easily sway any one. hopefully...

Hundreds of youth and university students came out on road on a call from "YOUTH FOR JUSTICE" to organise a candle light protest in the capital city of New Delhi against the mass murders in Nandigram by private army of ruling party in west Bengal in India.

MASS MURDERS IN NANDIGRAM

FARMER SUICIDES IN VIDARBHA

LOOT AND KILLING OF YAMUNA IN DELHI

CAN WE AFFORD TO REMAIN SILENT???

JOIN US TO PAY HOMAGE TO INNOCENT PEOPLE KILED IN NANDIGRAM BY STATE GOVT.

AND TAKE PLEDGE TO STOP LOOT AND KILLING OF YAMUNA IN THE NAME OF COMMONWEALTH GAMES

THIS SUNDAY 18th NOVEMBER 2007

at 5:00 pm

CENTRAL PARK,

CANNAUGHT PLACE, DELHI.

YOU ARE INVITED

WEEKLY MEETING

SUNDAY, 4th Nov. 2007

6:00 PM

AT

CENTRAL PARK,

CANNAUGHT PLACE, NEW DELHI

Yamuna panel chief wants demolition
HINDUATAN TIMES 1st NOV.2007
Aruna P. Sharma

New Delhi

IN AN unprecedented move, the convenor of the Yamuna (removal of encroachments) Monitoring Committee has sought demolition of all permanent structures erected in the Yamuna riverbed by the Delhi Development Authority and the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation.
In a report submitted to the High Court, retired additional district and sessions judge S.M. Aggarwal, the convenor of the committee, has also sought that DDA and DMRC should be penalised for damaging the river's eco-system by undertaking construction of the massive Metro rail yard, a residential complex in 1.85 acres of the river bed, a huge Games Village Metro station along with a mall by Parsvanath Developers and the Commonwealth Games Village.
The report has also recommended exemplary action against the Vice Chairman of DDA for deliberate and willful violation of Delhi High Court order directing that the river bed be maintained as a water body or wetland by the DDA and all other authorities.
The Yamuna Monitoring Committee headed by retired High Court Judge Justice Usha Mehra, was set up on December 8, 2005 to monitor the removal of all unauthorised structures, jhuggis, places of worship and or any other structure, which are unauthorisedly put in Yamuna bed and its embankments.
The committee submitted the report in the court of Justice A.K. Sikri and Justice Rekha Sharma on Tuesday when they were hearing a public interest petition filed by well-known water activist Rajender Singh, Yamuna Jiye Abhiyaan, other NGOs and resident fronts. The environmental activists have sought immediate stay on construction in the Yamuna river bed and arguments on this count will be heard on November 20.
arunasharma@hindustantimes.com