Category: Activities

RMN Foundation school team presenting the street play – चमेली की पढ़ाई – which reveals the problems in the education ecosystem. The street play is being shown in the city as well as villages of Delhi.
Activities

RMN Foundation Seeks Pro Bono Legal Services

RMN Foundation school team presenting the street play – चमेली की पढ़ाई – which reveals the problems in the education ecosystem. The street play is being shown in the city as well as villages of Delhi.
RMN Foundation school team presenting the street play – चमेली की पढ़ाई – which reveals the problems in the education ecosystem. The street play is being shown in the city as well as villages of Delhi.

RMN Foundation Seeks Pro Bono Legal Services

RMN Foundation – which is a humanitarian organization – seeks the pro bono (free) services of lawyers and law firms to handle the Foundation’s legal work – particularly the public interest litigation (PIL) and other legal cases to help the disadvantaged and distressed people in the society.

These days, RMN Foundation is working in different areas such as Environment Protection, Anti-Corruption Activities, Children’s Education Rights, Labour Rights, and Political Awareness Campaigns. read more

The illegal construction racket is being run by housing societies, corrupt bureaucrats, and dishonest politicians in connivance with the builders’ mafia. Photo: Rakesh Raman / RMN News Service
Activities, Research

Corrupt Bureaucrats and Careless Courts Allow Illegal Construction in Delhi

The illegal construction racket is being run by housing societies, corrupt bureaucrats, and dishonest politicians in connivance with the builders’ mafia. Photo: Rakesh Raman / RMN News Service
The illegal construction racket is being run by housing societies, corrupt bureaucrats, and dishonest politicians in connivance with the builders’ mafia. Photo: Rakesh Raman / RMN News Service

Corrupt Bureaucrats and Careless Courts Allow Illegal Construction in Delhi

Today, hundreds of group housing societies in Delhi are carrying out illegal extended construction [ a.k.a. Floor area ratio (FAR) construction ] which is spreading lethal dust and noise pollution in the entire city. 

The illegal construction racket is being run by housing societies, corrupt bureaucrats, and dishonest politicians in connivance with the builders’ mafia. 

Although many residents who oppose FAR construction have been going to the courts to get it stopped, unfortunately the courts are not quite willing to stop this crime and corruption scandal that is causing extreme health hazards among millions of Delhi residents. read more

Children – who studied at the RMN Foundation free school – participating in a pollution-control campaign in New Delhi. Photo and campaign by RMN Foundation founder Rakesh Raman.
Activities

Legal Case to Protect Human Rights from Pollution

Children – who studied at the RMN Foundation free school – participating in a pollution-control campaign in New Delhi. Photo and campaign by RMN Foundation founder Rakesh Raman.
Children – who studied at the RMN Foundation free school – participating in a pollution-control campaign in New Delhi. Photo and campaign by RMN Foundation founder Rakesh Raman.

Legal Case to Protect Human Rights from Pollution

As increasing pollution in India’s capital New Delhi is depriving people of their basic human rights to live in a clean, pollution-free environment, the government has worsened the already alarming situation with its FAR construction policy. The FAR construction is spreading lethal dust and noise pollution in Delhi’s housing societies where millions of people live.

Since massive corruption is happening in FAR construction projects, corrupt government bureaucrats and criminal politicians in Delhi have refused to stop FAR construction while the citizens have been constantly complaining. As an environmental activist, I have also been running citywide campaigns against FAR for the past 3 years. But the FAR construction is spreading like wildfire. read more