A humble plea for extending some relief to the distressed and much stressed Senior citizens

Senior citizens above 65 should be allowed to visit any place(s), of their choice. They should meticulously observe all the required precautions like social distancing etc. If they use their vehicles for the purpose, so much the better. This is necessary as otherwise, confinement within the four walls of the house for agonizingly long periods stretching months on together may render them vulnerable to several mental diseases, psychological disorder and maladies. They could be at risk of catching tension-induced mental ill-health and diseases. While the authentic figure of such psychologically distressed senior and super-senior citizens is not available, a rough guesstimate puts the number at staggering five million Standardized fool-proof infallible quality masks at a reasonable cost should be made available through the Government agencies. Dubious quality masks worn by masses could be one of the reasons for the Covid19 pandemic in our country. The recent spurt in Coronavirus cases could be attributed to the use of poor quality facemasks by the public in general. Quality-control of the product by the Government seems to be the need of the hour and as such masks bearing ISI mark, after undergoing the necessary quality-control, only should be allowed to be marketed. Though the initiative should have been taken much earlier even so, as they say, it is never too late to mend. Further to state that all the neighbouring States of NCT of Delhi should immediately open their borders. Many citizens (laymen like yours truly) are of the opinion that the  Constitution of India does not authorize any State Government to Seal its borders; only the Central Government can seal borders of any one or more States in the manner and to the extent, it deems fit, if and when circumstances so warrant. Constitution does not vest any State Government with such authority (to Seal its borders) in any manner whatsoever. While the government of UT of Delhi has since opened the State's borders ensuring WITHOUT A PASS, hassle-free entry/exit of people from and to other States, the BJP RULED neighbouring States of UP and Haryana are still not honouring the Central Home Ministry's clear-cut and quite unambiguous directives/orders/guidelines in this connection which clearly stipulate WITHOUT PASS, hassle-free movement (entry and exit of people and traffic) from one State to another. These States (UP and Haryana) bordering UT of Delhi,  also must fall in line,  immediately  open their borders and ensure without pass movement of people and traffic from them to other States and vice-versa.  Hon'ble Supreme Court has also demanded the same action to be taken by all the States surrounding NCR of Delhi in their recent judgment on the issue. The concerned States, therefore, must put aside their all or any reservation(s), honour the Central Home Ministry's Guidelines and Hon'ble Supreme Court's orders in this matter, and open their borders immediately ensuring WITHOUT PASS, HASSLE-FREE TO AND FRO MOVEMENT for all the people irrespective of the State to which they belong, from one place in a State to another place in another State (as before).  Local authorities of bordering districts of the States should also be strictly instructed to meticulously observe these directives, guidelines, and refrain from passing any such orders in contravention of these guidelines/directives/ orders issued by the Central Home Ministry in this respect, which only must prevail and honoured by all concerned. THANKS.  

The central government claimed that they have provided five crores face-masks. The population of the country is in the neighbourhood of 130 crores. Everyone needed/needs at least one Standardized foolproof infallible quality mask to be provided at a reasonable cost. Pandemic COVID 19 is a national problem/ scourge.  People look to the Central Government for relief and protection. It must be ensured that no more harm is caused to the people. Ignoring the activities of Jamatis and hooligans of Shaheen Bagh is now proving disastrous, and Delhi is paying for it by losing many precious lives of its citizens. It stands to reason that but for these mischiefs, the pandemic would not have assumed such gigantic proportions in Delhi. We have suffered the torture of Four continuous lockdowns and still living under the lengthening shadow of COVID 19 pandemic.   Unlock -1 that takes effect from 1st. June is most welcome. 

LURKING DANGERS

LURKING DANGER

Pakistan and China-our two permanently hostile neighbours, and downright unscrupulous enemies - desperately want the dark and inglorious chapter of the history of Nehruvian era repeated post-2019 General Elections in India. Fortunately for them, RAHUL GANDHI, who is as visionless and clueless as his great-grandfather Jawaharlal Nehru was, is more than willing to oblige them - readily available to do a Nehru for them provided, of course, the people of India are, somehow, made to vote him to power. Goes without saying that to that end, our wily neighbours will work on every trick they could think of for the simple reason that in that event, with a thoroughly weakened India under a directionless, corrupt, Nehru-like leadership to deal with, it will be a walkover for Pakistan to grab the remaining two-thirds of the Kashmir valley, and for China to appropriate the remaining Arunachal Pradesh, besides doing a Tibet in Nepal, Sikkim and Bhutan - a part of the duo's expansionist designs for which they are infamously famous world over..  A thoroughly weakened, hapless India, under, as weak a leader as Nehru, would be more than willing to buy peace from its aggressive, greedy neighbours at any cost. Against the two: the Devil (Pakistan) and Dragon (China), our brave soldiers are already engaged in a war-like situation at two and a half fronts and here are a few among us, their ungrateful compatriots, thinking in terms of providing weakest possible political leadership to demoralize them completely to the huge delight of our sworn enemies.. Out of the above two, Pakistan de-facto ruled by terrorists, die-hard orthodox Islamic elements, and Pak militia is far more dangerous. Besides, the two full-scale wars with it earlier, we have perpetually been confronting with and tormented by the terrorism exported by it ever since partition, and while under the weak, visionless, clueless, inept gutless leadership of Jawaharlal Nehru already lost to it one-third of our Kashmir valley. Nehru did not allow thousands of families uprooted from Pakistan to settle down in the valley, and the religion-wise demographic imbalance in the valley thus created, (by introducing Articles 35 -A and 370 in the Constitution), has been proving a bane for the people of India ever since then.  The thorny Kashmir problem, the problems of burgeoning population - eating away our scarce national resources on which Dr. Man Mohan Singh authorizes the minority (read Muslims) to assert their first claim ( meaning thereby exclusive claim, as in the context of severely scarce natural resources that we have, there could not possibly be anything like "second claim") What an appetite for Assamese Muslim vote!!) , chronic unemployment, all result of the visionless policies pursued by Jawaharlal Nehru- the first Prime Minister the destiny cursed us with.  Why there was no Modiji around that crucial hour in history? Now history dangerously seems to be at the verge of repeating itself, and the great-grandson is hell-bent upon replicating the great-grandfather to bring about worst-ever chaos for us. Are we ready to witness our doom and irreversible disaster?   Modiji is the only hope for us. ANY lesser man will not be able to face the impending danger MENACINGLY LURKING AT THE HORIZON OF INDIAN SKY, let alone overcome it. Modiji is our only savior. Let us all pledge to strengthen his hands in all possible ways we can. 

                      DISCUSSION WITH ABC AT PIONEER DAILY WEB SITE

Recently, willy-nilly, I was drawn into a rather unsavoury discussion with one Shri ABC at a Pioneer Daily website. While a substantial portion of that very lengthy discussion gets rubbed off, I reproduce here a patch of my narrative that somehow survives the blue pencil of the site editors. I seek an endorsement of my views from one and all. 

What the Ordnance Factories under your ablest hero Krishna Menon were doing at the time of Chinese aggression?-Producing lipsticks. You want that our woefully ill-equipped, literally unarmed, brave soldiers should have got killed fighting the battles unarmed against the very well-equipped army of four times more strong enemy which descended upon our territory like a swarm of locusts. Do you mean that they should have got slaughtered like guinea pigs? - the timid General Kaul, a cousin of Nehru, fleeing from Tejpur to the safe sanctuary in Delhi leaving his unarmed soldiers for getting slaughtered like guinea pigs by the Nehru's Unscrupulous enemy.  If such persons are your hero, you should watch out where you stand. Obviously, we the Indians then could do nothing better than to hang our heads in shame.  I am sure that you will agree that with Modiji as Prime Minister such a shameful thing is downright inconceivable, let alone happen. Such things happen only when our country is cursed with a Prime Minister like Nehru and Defense Minister of Krishna Menon's calibre and abilities- long on rhetoric .and short on everything else- never ever in Modiji's regime. Modiji has not only got a 56-inch chest. but much more besides that - Diplomacy is a thing you must know about as it is just another attribute of his magnificent, multi-faced persona. .. Kindly shed your pre-conceived notions about persons like Nehru and Krishna Menon.
 You are asking who told me that? Those who have lived those inglorious and shameful days of Indian history; who else? And there could be quite a few of them associating you too. Besides this they may further like to dent your pre-conceived notions about your hero No. 1, Jawaharlal Nehru who pushed the country in such  pathetic conditions that a predominantly agricultural country where 80 per cent of the population was then engaged in agriculture and related occupations, could not produce enough to feed 35 crore people, and went to US of America with a begging bowl beseeching Americans to give PL-480 wheat, which they were generous enough to spare for us after making sufficient provision for the pigs they reared, and  for whose consumption the stuff was basically meant. For want of proper jobs appropriate to their qualifications and skills and rampant educated unemployment, your hero forced highly qualified engineers, and technicians to do odd jobs like boot-polishing and running tea-stalls for a living, while he himself lived a king-size life deeply steeped in creature comforts in Lord Kitchener's palace at Tin Murti Marg which he occupied all for himself . A single individual occupying a palace while an average Indian lived on three annas a day !! And to the cap, it wished that he, and not Doctor Ram Manohar Lohia, be remembered as Socialist. Hypocrisy thy name is Jawaharlal Nehru. While VIP status came naturally to our White Rulers by virtue of their belonging to the ruling race, on what authority Nehru inherited the same, and after that fortified and sanctified the VIP culture via the provisions, he made in a dubious Constitution that retained and sanctified all those Westminster-made laws, rules, regulations, customs, practices, traditions, and what not to firmly lay and constitutionally justify the downright abhor able VIP culture. The Constitution reduced our democracy to what Nehru had intended to be. "For the VIPs, By the VIPs and of the VIPs' Status wise and culturally the polity and the society was divided and sub-divided into groups: VIPs vs.Non-VIPs; Religion-wise Minority (Muslims) vs. Majority (Non-Muslims), Language wise: Hindi vs. all the other languages. Region-wise: North vs.South, and so forth. Nehru, as was his wont, preached 'unity', but, practised 'Divisive Politics' for electoral gains for himself and his party. It must have been a very painful experience for the contemporary people who lived those days to realize that after Independence nothing and absolutely nothing has changed; except, of course, the pigment of the skin of the rulers that had changed from white to brown or black, and that too for the worst- they were far happier under the White Regime;  reminisced the good old days they had lived under the foreign rulers. . Nehru gave yet another sinister dimension to this most abhor able culture fit only for slaves. Now it was like: ONCE A VIP, ALWAYS A VIP-

What the Ordnance Factories under your ablest hero Krishna Menon were doing at the time of Chinese aggression?-Producing lipsticks. You want that our woefully ill-equipped, literally unarmed, brave soldiers should have got killed fighting the battles unarmed against the very well-equipped army of four times more strong enemy which descended upon our territory like a swarm of locusts. Do you mean that they should have got slaughtered like guinea pigs? - the timid General Kaul, a cousin of Nehru, fleeing from Tejpur to the safe sanctuary in Delhi leaving his unarmed soldiers for getting slaughtered like guinea pigs by the Nehru' Unscrupulous enemy.  If such persons are your hero, you should watch out where you stand. Obviously, we the Indians then could do nothing better than to hang our heads in shame.  I am sure that you will agree that with Modiji as Prime Minister such a shameful thing is downright unconceivable, let alone happen. Such things happen only when our country is cursed with a Prime Minister like Nehru and Defense Minister of Krishna Menon's caliber and abilities- long on rhetoric .and short on everything else- never ever in Modiji's regime. Modiji has not only got 56 inch chest. but much more besides that - Diplomacy is a thing you must know about as it is just another attribute of his magnificent, multi-faced persona. .. Kindly shed your pre-conceived notions about persons like Nehru and Krishna Menon.

 You are asking who told me that ? Those who have lived those inglorious and shameful days of Indian history; who else? And there could be quite a few of them associating you too. Besides this they may further like to dent your pre-conceived notions about your hero No. 1, Jawaharlal Nehru who pushed the country in such  pathetic conditions that a predominantly agricultural country where 80 percent of the population was then engaged in agriculture and related occupations, could not produce enough to feed 35 crore people, and went to US of America with a begging bowl beseeching Americans to give PL-480 wheat, which they were generous enough to spare for us after making sufficient provision for the pigs they reared, and  for whose consumption the stuff was basically meant. For want of proper jobs appropriate to their qualifications and skills and rampant educated unemployment, your hero forced highly qualified engineers, and technicians to do odd jobs like boot-polishing and running tea-stalls for a living, while he himself lived a king-size life deeply steeped in creature comforts in Lord Kitchner;s palace at Tin Murti Marg which he occupied all for himself .A single individual occupying a palace while an average Indian lived on three annas a day !! And to cap it wished that he, and not Doctor Ram Manohar Lohia, be remembered as Socialist. Hypocrisy thy name is Jawaharlal Nehru. VIP status came naturally to our White Rulers by virtue of their belonging to the ruling race, but on what authority Nehru inherited the same, and after that fortified and sanctified the VIP culture via the provisions, he made in a dubious Constitution that retained and sanctified all those Westminster-made laws, rules, regulations, customs, practices, traditions, and what not to firmly lay and constitutionally justify the downright abhor able VIP culture. The Constitution reduced our democracy what Nehru had intended to be so: "For the VIPs, By the VIPs and of the VIPs? Status wise and culturally the polity and the society was divided and sub-divided into groups: VIPs vs.Non-VIPs; Religion-wise Minority (Muslims) vs. Majority (Non-Muslims), Language wise: Hindi vs. all the other languages. Region wise: North vs.South, and so forth. Nehru, as was his wont, preached 'unity', but, practiced 'Divisive Politics' for electoral gains for himself and his party. It must have been a very painful experience for the contemporary people who lived those days to realize that after Independence nothing and absolutely nothing has changed; except, of course, the pigment of the skin of the rulers that had changed from white to brown or black, and that too for the worst- they were far happier under the White Regime, and reminiscing the good old days they had lived under the foreign rulers. . Nehru gave yet another sinister dimension to this most abhor able culture fit only for slaves. Now it was like: ONCE A VIP, ALWAYS A VIP-

What the Ordnance Factories under your ablest hero Krishna Menon were doing at the time of Chinese aggression?-Producing lipsticks. You want that our woefully ill-equipped, literally unarmed, brave soldiers should have got killed fighting the battles unarmed against the very well-equipped army of four times more strong enemy which descended upon our territory like a swarm of locusts. Do you mean that they should have got slaughtered like guinea pigs? - the timid General Kaul, a cousin of Nehru, fleeing from Tejpur to the safe sanctuary in Delhi leaving his unarmed soldiers for getting slaughtered like guinea pigs by the Nehru' Unscrupulous enemy.  If such persons are your hero, you should watch out where you stand. Obviously, we the Indians then could do nothing better than to hang our heads in shame.  I am sure that you will agree that with Modiji as Prime Minister such a shameful thing is downright inconceivable, let alone happen. Such things happen only when our country is cursed with a Prime Minister like Nehru and Defense Minister of Krishna Menon's calibre and abilities- long on rhetoric .and short on everything else- never ever in Modiji's regime. Modiji has not only got a 56-inch chest. but much more besides that - Diplomacy is a thing you must know about as it is just another attribute of his magnificent, multi-faced persona. .. Kindly shed your pre-conceived notions about persons like Nehru and Krishna Menon.

 You are asking who told me that? Those who have lived those inglorious and shameful days of Indian history; who else? And there could be quite a few of them associating you too. Besides this they may further like to dent your pre-conceived notions about your hero No. 1, Jawaharlal Nehru who pushed the country in such  pathetic conditions that a predominantly agricultural country where 80 per cent of the population was then engaged in agriculture and related occupations, could not produce enough to feed 35 crore people, and went to US of America with a begging bowl beseeching Americans to give PL-480 wheat, which they were generous enough to spare for us after making sufficient provision for the pigs they reared, and  for whose consumption the stuff was basically meant. For want of proper jobs appropriate to their qualifications and skills and rampant educated unemployment, your hero forced highly qualified engineers, and technicians to do odd jobs like boot-polishing and running tea-stalls for a living, while he himself lived a king-size life deeply steeped in creature comforts in Lord Kitchener's palace at Tin Murti Marg which he occupied all for himself .A single individual occupying a palace while an average Indian lived on three annas a day !! And to cap, it wished that he, and not Doctor Ram Manohar Lohia, be remembered as Socialist. Hypocrisy thy name is Jawaharlal Nehru. VIP status came naturally to our White Rulers by virtue of their belonging to the ruling race, but on what authority Nehru inherited the same, and after that fortified and sanctified the VIP culture via the provisions, he made in a dubious Constitution that retained and sanctified all those Westminster-made laws, rules, regulations, customs, practices, traditions, and what not to firmly lay and constitutionally justify the downright abhor able VIP culture. The Constitution reduced our democracy what Nehru had intended to be so: "For the VIPs, By the VIPs and of the VIPs? Status wise and culturally the polity and the society was divided and sub-divided into groups: VIPs vs.Non-VIPs; Religion-wise Minority (Muslims) vs. Majority (Non-Muslims), Language wise: Hindi vs. all the other languages. Region-wise: North vs.South, and so forth. Nehru, as was his wont, preached 'unity', but, practised 'Divisive Politics' for electoral gains for himself and his party. It must have been a very painful experience for the contemporary people who lived those days to realize that after Independence nothing and absolutely nothing has changed; except, of course, the pigment of the skin of the rulers that had changed from white to brown or black, and that too for the worst- they were far happier under the White Regime, and reminiscing the good old days they had lived under the foreign rulers. . Nehru gave yet another sinister dimension to this most abhor able culture fit only for slaves. Now it was like: ONCE A VIP, ALWAYS A VIP-

If RG thinks that he will become the Prime Minister of India by maligning Modiji and spreading canards against him, he should think again. The days when his great-grandfather Jawaharlal Nehru used political gimmickries, canards, hype, and hypocrisy for successfully leading his Congress to the winning post in elections, are definitely over- much water has flown down the river Yamuna since then. The then gullible Indian voter is much more educated and mature now. Baseless nasty insinuations, wild, unfounded allegations of corruption against Modiji are sure to misfire and will cost heavily to the Congress Party in terms of loss of the sizeable number of votes in the ensuing elections. To say that the distasteful expression 'Chor' for the Hon'ble Prime Minister is in bad taste would be an understatement. It's downright deplorable and unpardonable. RG should be punished for his total lack of discretion, discipline, decency and decorum expected of a leader of a recognized political outfit in his conduct and behaviour. Congress, in its own interests, should change its leader before it is too late. Sachin Pilot, though quite young, is far more mature- has a grey head over his green shoulders.

SIMULTANEOUS ELECTIONS- A FAR-REACHING POLL REFORM

I unreservedly support the idea of holding simultaneous elections.

.Taxpayers' hard-earned money [G1] in millions, perennially goes down the drain without serving any productive purpose for them in funding and financing year-round back to back elections- by polls and/or mid-term polls for Parliament and various State Assemblies- besides the Five-yearly General elections for Parliament and various State Assemblies on different dates in the name of democracy, which is neither egalitarian nor truly representative in character. On the contrary, besides being enormously costly, ours is an extremely flawed, faulty and defective democracy. Millions of man-hours are wasted in electioneering serving no useful purpose at all. Precious time of eminent leaders which otherwise could have been gainfully utilized for policy-planning and implementation in the best national interests, is also recklessly wasted in electioneering, and other unproductive activities relating to year-round back to back elections. While one or the other political party wins or loses the [G2] election, the humble tax-payer of the country is the real, permanent and all-around[G3]  loser all the way for no fault of his. The wily politicians have forced him to believe that these tamashas, as are being enacted endlessly by them in the name of democracy, though quite expensive and unnecessary, are good for his health and well-being. To start with, and to put a rein on these hugely expensive galloping nuisances, the following measures may be considered for immediate implementation:

1. Conduct of simultaneous Five-Year term elections simultaneously and concurrently for Lok Sabha and all the State Assemblies, Union Territories once in five years, as has been emphasized by the Hon'ble Prime Minister also. In the event of Parliament or any State Assembly dissolving midway, President's rule for the rest of the term may be imposed.,

2. No pre or post-poll [G4] Gadbandhans among political parties should be allowed or recognized as legal or legitimate by the Election Commission. Parties wishing to come together may, however, merge with each other- totally and finally- by losing forthwith their individual identity to emerge as one single political unit for all intent and purposes for all times to come.

3. No two individuals from the same family or blood relationship should concurrently be allowed to hold political posts[G5]  or positions in governments,- Centre or the State. 

4. Take every conceivable measure to annihilate the diabolical   VIP culture,- a diabolical British-legacy responsible for inculcating slave-mentality in the non-VIP citizens.

5. A politician should strictly have only one term tenure in a political post or office, immediately at the end of that one term; he must join the rank of commoners. No more any perk, privilege, or official residence etc. from the Government for him or his family.

Other such measures may follow to ensure that a so-called VIP or 'Mananiya' does NOT remain so even for a single day on demitting office immediately after a strictly fixed term or before that, as the case may be.

With above measures implemented, the tax-burden and liability of the ordinary tax-payer is sure to cut down to at least a quarter of his current such liability, and as such, his genuine peeve against elections, electioneering, and VIP culture should be considered seriously and redressed forthwith. 

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Revamp the Nyaya Mitra – Make it People Friendly

TOPICS:Judicial ReformJudiciaryLaw & OrderNyaya Mitra

AUTHOR: GUEST AUTHOR DECEMBER 26, 2017

Modi ji has taken more than a dozen big and bold initiatives within the short span of about three and half years of his coming to office. The latest one-Introduction of the institution of NYAYA MITRA- the new system to address plaints against judiciary– is quite innovative. It can also be a unique weapon in the armory of common man against the still rampant corruption in judiciary, particularly the lower judiciary and semi-judicial institutions, commissions, organizations, and forums, such as, District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forums, State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commissions, National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, Civil Courts of Law, Information Commission, and so forth provided it is sufficiently empowered to cover all these judicial or semi-judicial institutions.

These, of late, have become dens of corruption. Modi ji can justifiably take pride in liberating the country from the shackles of back to back scams of astronomical proportions that had routinely happened in the previous thoroughly corrupt Congress Government and ushering in a ‘no scam’ regimen. However, the rampant corruption in lower judiciary stays on as a blot on the BJP Governments at the centre and several states.

This new system can also be regarded as a logical extension of Modi ji’s relentless on-going crusade against corruption intended to bring in its fold judicial and semi judicial institutions, hitherto considered ‘holy cow’ – notwithstanding the rampant corruption in them. The system holds the promise to stem the rot provided, of course, deep thinking is invested in giving it final shape and content.

EXPECTATIONS AND ASPIRATIONS

The system should aim to empower the hitherto helpless, hapless and defenseless common man, who doesn’t have pockets deep enough to fight prolonged, very costly yet in almost all cases, a losing battle against the loaded verdicts of these thoroughly corrupt semi-judicial institutions, forums, commissions, and courts of law. And that leaves him/her with no alternative but to suffer the vicious consequences of their loaded, one-sided judgments, judgmental decisions of Information Commissioners in RTI cases, in silence.

As of now, against a loaded, judgmental decision of a corrupt Information Commissioner or for that matter against such verdict, decision or judgment given by a corrupt president of National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, there is no remedy except filing an appeal or revision petition against it in the Hon’ble Supreme Court. However, it is a luxury which few among common citizens can afford. With the introduction of the institution of Nyaya Mitra, such bleak prospects should become history.

SCOPE AND POWER

Much, however, depends upon the scope and space provided to, and power invested in Nyaya Mitra in the interests of speedy and effective grievance redressal against the loaded judgments, decisions or verdicts of the judicial and semi-judicial institutions. To meet the ends of justice and stem corruption, the willfully defaulting Presidents of the Consumer Forums, Information Commissioners, and judges of the civil courts etc. should be awarded deterrent punishment.

The new system should, therefore, be meticulously planned. Nyaya Mitra should be sufficiently empowered so as to give strength, substance and meaning to Modi ji’s clarion call ‘NA KHAUNGA NA KHANEY DUNGA‘. It is finding echo in the hearts of millions of his countrymen, who had suffered the vicissitudes of the demon called ‘corruption’ all through the previous regimes after independence, and make the country a better place to live in.

SUGGESTIONS FOR CONSIDERATION

1. Only qualified professionals, including retired IAS and IPS officers with legal and administrative background or academic qualifications, should be appointed as Nyaya Mitras. The deadwoods of corrupt judiciary should not have any place in the new system.
2. The honorarium of Rs.45,000/-per month, including travel expenses, should be raised to Rs. 60,000/- per month to attract the most brilliant among these officers (the cream) to its fold
3. All such matters and grievances against judiciary, whether related to corruption in court, delay in delivery of judgment or unfair judgment, should either be routed through the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO’s Public Grievances portal), or through other public grievances portals of the government. All such existing grievances against the judiciary lying with these portals including those which have since been arbitrarily ‘closed’ – whether related to corruption in court, delay in delivery of judgment or unfair judgment, may immediately be forwarded by these portals to the concerned Nyaya Mitra for their consideration and action as per the rules and regulations.
4. The office of the Nyaya Mitra should be located at every district headquarter.
5. In the interests of speedy and effective grievance redressal against the loaded judgments, decisions or verdicts of the judicial and semi-judicial institutions, the Nyaya Mitra should be sufficiently empowered to recommend deterrent punishment to be meted out to the willfully defaulting Presidents of the Consumer Forums and Commissions, Information Commissioners, judicial officers, judges of the courts of law etc
6. Nyaya Mitras should be fully empowered to call for the records from the concerned lower defaulting law courts, consumer forums, information commissions etc. who have passed unfair judgment, judgmental decision in RTI cases, or otherwise faulted in any manner, thoroughly examine their judgments/decisions/course of action they have taken. It should submit a self-contained, comprehensive self-explanatory note along with the complete case records/ files etc. directly to the Hon’ble Supreme Court. A designated bench of the Supreme Court, on the basis of the findings of the Nyaya Mitra in the matter should straightway pass such orders. These should be in supersession of unfair judgments/decisions/orders of the lower judiciary, judicial or semi-judicial forums, commissions, organizations, institutions, Panchayats etc., as it may deem fit. These orders should be final, and binding on all concerned judges, commissioners, presidents of the consumer forums, Sarpanch etc. who had earlier delivered the wrong and faulty judgment, besides the parties to the dispute. A copy of the Hon’ble Supreme Court’s order should be made available, free of cost, to the complainant. The executive machinery of the government should promptly get into action and execute the orders. This much is absolutely necessary in the interests of quick, fair, painless, and not much expensive justice to a common man, which he richly deserves.
7. Other grievances (other than those against the judiciary) i.e. those against government departments, their officials, public undertakings, public utility concerns and agencies of all types, whether purely government, semi-government or running under PPP arrangements, as have been or are being lodged on the PMO’s Public Grievances portal, or other public grievances portals of the government should immediately be submitted by these portals to the concerned Nyaya Mitra. It should be vested with the powers of First Class Magistrate, and in that capacity decide them in the manner as they deem fit, and pass orders which should be binding on all concerned. The executive machinery of the government must accord due priority to the orders issued by Nyaya Mitra, promptly get into action, and execute them with the same promptness as those of Hon’ble Supreme Court in cases of grievance against the judiciary.

This is absolutely necessary in view of the fact that to the huge consternation of the aggrieved complainants, the public grievances portals of the governments, including that of the PMO, have all along been doing absolutely nothing concrete or substantial about the grievances lodged on them. In most cases they seem to follow the trademark Congress policy of ‘ATKAANA, LATKANA, BHATKANA‘ apparently inherited by them by working under the previous several decades long corrupt Congress regimes.

They scuttle the grievances by proffering irrelevant remarks against the ‘Details’ column, and before anybody could know what is happening, promptly close them. Unpalatable ‘feedback’ are summarily obliterated. A message to the effect that ‘the grievance is finally ‘closed’, and no reminder/clarification can be entertained’ immediately flashes at the top of the box encasing the grievance. It greets the bewildered complainant throwing him in a state of consummate quandary. Goes without saying, the experience is very much frustrating.

In some other cases, they act merely as a Post Office, and that too the most inept one. The portals forward the grievances to one or the other authority that may not have anything to do with it, and as such, legitimately honours the grievances by ‘filing’ them with a ‘no action required’ remark. The worst, however, happens, and that happens more often than not, when the grievance is forwarded to the tormentor itself i.e to the authority that caused the grievance. Quite understandably, the tormentor reacts with the viciousness of a venomous viper. In that case, the fate of the complainant, and that of his complaint, can better be imagined than described.

Thus, in 99.9 percent recurring cases the grievances lodged on the PMO’s public grievances portal, or for that matter, any other public grievances portals of the government, go nowhere. It is also observed that some portals offer to mediate or arbitrate in a dispute only to retrace after sometime without informing the complainant.

While I attribute no motives, and all this may not be pre-designed with any malafide intentions, yet after all is said and done, the whole thing seems to be an eyewash, a deception designed to fool the simple and gullible complainant. In the ultimate analysis, the conclusion drawn about the existing arrangement of things impels us to become wiser after the event (read ‘after lodging the complaint on these so-called public grievance redressal portals’), and silently admit that blessed are those who manage to suffer all sorts of injustices and maltreatment in silence for they will be spared of the onerous ordeal of lodging the grievance that, at best, falls flat, and at worst, proves counter-productive.

Hopefully, things change for the better when the grievances lodged at these public grievance portals of the government will be forwarded to sufficiently empowered Nyaya Mitra, The justice for the common man, then, may not be as elusive a commodity as it is now-way beyond his reach.

-By SANJOG MAHESHWARI

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TRIVENI CONSUMERS' COMPLAINTS GO NOWHERE

            The graft story of some unidentified tycoon wielding huge political power would, probably, remain incomplete till the nexus between him and the Mittals' Triveni Infrastructure Development Co. Ltd., is fully investigated and exposed.  He reportedly has gone so far as to influence the judiciary as well, roping in the Hon'ble High Court of Delhi to constitute a Committee tasked with explicit assignment of exploring and devising ways and means to revive and rehabilitate the otherwise woefully and hopelessly sick and sinking real estate construction company of Mittals of Agra at the cost and expenses of hundreds of its harried consumers, customers, investors and creditors.

             Even though the Hon'ble High Court does not have any jurisdiction over the Consumer Grievance Cases agitated  before the Consumer Courts established under the Provisions of the Consumer Protection Act, 1986 (as amended up to date) and pending before them for adjudication and appropriate action under its various sections, and the Act vests in them the powers of a First Class Magistrate, the Complainants with their cases pending before DCDRF-X, Qutab Institutional Area, New Delhi  (most of the Consumer cases against Triveni infrastructure Development Co. Ltd., New Delhi are pending before this Forum in a state akin to 'suspended animation' as the court slaps a 'temporary stay' order on them), are routinely directed to make further  "appropriate applications?" before the Hon'ble High Court of Delhi); adjourned till the next date fixed for hearing. Interestingly, on no such date so fixed for hearing the Opp. Party 'Triveni' is required to put up appearance before the forum; it's  the Complainant only who is required to put up appearance and report.    Thus the Consumer- Complainants of 'Triveni' are coerced to contest their cases against 'Triveni' simultaneously at two courts of law: 1.the DCDR Forum No X Qutub Institutional Area, New Delhi, and 2. the 'Committee' created by the Hon'ble High Court of Delhi.  This despite the fact that the Complainants are required to submit an affidavit to the effect that the "complainant has not filed any suit in the matter in any other court and no suit of his in the matter is pending disposal in any other court of law."  Offence   of perjury u/s 91 of the Indian Penal Code?  Ignore it. Nobody watching!(in stark contrast, in an identical case against 'Triveni' ,another consumer court takes due cognizance of the builder's dirty tricks to cheat its customer, and fully compensates the victim-Complainant for the losses caused to him by the offending company). Here is this DCDR Forum X,Qutub Industrial Area which after ordering refund of consideration amount with measly 6%p.a simple interest on it in an identical consumer case against "Triveni",is constantly blocking  the refund by suo-motto staying the execution and compliance of its own orders!!  What a mockery of Justice!  A law court negating its own orders!!  Yet another beginning of yet another virtually unending tale of torture for the complainant scripted for him, perhaps, with a view to tire him out of further action in his  case against 'Triveni' and render him unable to get refund of the money he had foolishly invested in a never-to-happen 'Triveni' project, let alone getting justice at this end, either. Why it happens like that   could be anybody's guess.

             While there is no jurisdiction with the District Forums to pass ad-interim orders, they freely pass such orders, temporarily staying the execution proceedings at their end and go on adjourning proceedings after proceedings ad-infinitum.  The legal matters and cases AGAINST THE COMPANY pending before the Consumer courts, in particular, have been suffering endless adjournments for years on end, without any reason and without attracting any cost, expenses, penalty or punishment for non-compliance, non-appearances, and other offences continually being committed by the offending Company with calculated impunity, to the huge chagrin of its hapless consumers /customers, who have invested several lakhs of their hard earned money in dozens of the company's fake building construction projects at several sites in Haryana, UP and other places.  In almost all cases, several lakhs have been collected from consumers/customers and investors, and not even the land has been acquired, let alone observing construction-related other formalities for starting the widely advertised housing projects. While investors have been losing lakhs of rupees, the cheats are raking in mullah, and minting tons of money on their hard-earned money. The cruel irony is that even the Hon'ble High Court does not think twice before exceeding its jurisdiction by stepping into the Consumer Cases, and taking their cue from it, the Consumer Courts have been crawling with endless adjournments in consumer cases pending before them, year after year, for no reason, whatsoever.

            So far as Consumer Complaint Cases agitated against 'Triveni' under the Act are concerned such a 'committee' does not have any locus standi,  there is a basic and manifest lack of jurisdiction, being totally outside the procedure laid down within the framework of the Consumer Protection Act-1986. and the orders passed by the said committee in such Consumer cases would, therefore, be null and void being bad in law. A clear case of gross transgression of jurisdiction, covertly meant to harass, humiliate, torture and cheat the consumers and end-users on one hand, and grant undue, unlawful benefits to the offending "Triveni" on the other, is made out.  Hundreds of consumer-complainants had invested their hard earned money in the various projects floated and widely advertised by the company in the fond hope of having a roof over their heads.  Several years thereafter, now they are facing the ugly and harsh prospect of losing all of that. In bonus they are subjected to suffer acute mental torture, humiliation, harassment, and agony as at DCDR Forum X, they are made to attend endless court hearings only to get yet another adjournment and another date of hearing at which  the company's appearance is neither made nor considered necessary, and, therefore, the offence on the part of the company, which otherwise should have attracted contempt proceedings against the company, is routinely ignored. This blatant contempt of the court does not ever attract any fine, penalty or punishment for 'Triveni' from the Consumer Courts, let alone issuance of N.B.W against it for the repeated offences.

TRIVENI MONITORING Committee:  The committee is formed / appointed to rehabilitate and revive 'TRIVENI' in order to safeguard the interest of the investors and flat buyers………………………"  What a cruel, heartless irony!! Can't they see 'the obvious?' Consumers' interests lie in sending the company immediately in liquidation, and certainly not in 'rehabilitating and reviving' the woefully sick and sinking company with investors' hard-earned money going down the drain. There already is a big question mark on the mode and manner in which some of company's assets, land and property have been disposed of, and who are the beneficiaries. There is no point of reconciliation between two basically conflicting sets of interests. In view of the inhuman atrocities committed by "Triveni", all its consumer-complainants not only deserve to get full refund of their invested amount together with penal interest at substantially high rate on it from the date of payment till realization, but also full costs, compensation for damages, and other reliefs for harassment, humiliation and acute mental agony suffered by them all through the period for no fault of theirs. Can't they see that they (Triveni consumers) have already lost for ever the once in life-time opportunity of owning a flat within their means, at the place of their choice and convenience? In reply to a R.T.I query it is stated: " Triveni Monitoring Committee was created on 13.05.2011.  As per orders of the Hon'ble Court no exact tenure of the committee has been fixed."  It means that the nightmare is not likely to end in one's lifetime, at least.

            While all the time the cheats are busy raking it in, for the hapless 'Trveni' consumers, whose number runs in hundreds, the dubious deals make for a very intensely disturbing nightmare. And, ironically enough, they never cease to assure us that the consumer is the king!

            The question, however, remains: Do Mittals the owners of 'Triveni' wield this kind of political power so as to make the Hon'ble High Court bend backward favouring them, caring two hoots if in the process even the law of the land is turned upside down? Or is there some other tycoon wielding enough political clout, merrily fishing in the troubled waters to rake in the Mullah, fill coffers by reinvesting the Triveni investor's money in other lucrative projects earning for him and for Mittals, returns many times over the reinvested amount,  without fear of getting caught by the law? Whatsoever may be the case, torture to the 'Triveni' complainants should be stopped forthwith. They must get the justice they deserve without any further loss of time.                                                                                                                                             -SANJOG MAHESHWARI  C1-A -42  B MIG FLATS, JANAKPURI, NEW DELHI-110058

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Triveni Infra Dev. to pay Rs 6.35L for not delivering flat

http://www.financialexpress.com/news/triveni-infra-dev.-to-pay-rs-6.35l-for-not-delivering-flat/947833/0#.UH-apxc0M3M.gmail Real estate developer Triveni Infrastructure has been directed by a consumer forum here to refund Rs 6 lakh to one of its customers, who had booked a flat in their township project at Faridabad but did not get possession for more than four years.

Finding the company guilty of unfair trade practice for giving a flashy advertisement despite being "well aware that the aforesaid project would never be successful", the New Delhi District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum also awarded Rs 25,000 as compensation for harassment and Rs 10,000 as litigation costs

"OP (Triveni Infrastructure Development Co Ltd) knowingly and deliberately extracted money from the complainant's pocket through unfair trade practice by publishing in various news papers, 'Path breaking developments in the city of future, Township at Faridabad', as it was well aware that the aforesaid project would never be successful.

"It is totally, unlawful, injustice, malpractice, unfair trade practice of developer (Triveni), which is a violation of Consumer Protection Act, 1987," the forum presided by C K Chaturvedi said.

The order of the forum came on the plea of Kalkaji resident Vivek Kumar who had alleged that he had paid Rs six lakhs in two instalments in 2006 and 2007 for booking a flat in the real estate developer's township project at Faridabad, but even after four long years the status of the township was not communicated to him.

He had alleged that his requests for delivering possession of the flat or failing that, to refund his booking amount, were met with threats and added that the firm did not even reply to any of his emails.

As the company chose not to contest the complaint despite serving of notice, it was proceeded against ex-parte.