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
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

Office of the Registrar Cooperative Societies (RCS) of Delhi Government, which is among the most corrupt departments of India. Photo: Rakesh Raman / RMN News Service
Research

How to Stop Crimes and Corruption in Delhi

Office of the Registrar Cooperative Societies (RCS) of Delhi Government, which is among the most corrupt departments of India. Photo: Rakesh Raman / RMN News Service
Office of the Registrar Cooperative Societies (RCS) of Delhi Government, which is among the most corrupt departments of India. Photo: Rakesh Raman / RMN News Service

How to Stop Crimes and Corruption in Delhi

Today, crimes and corruption in Delhi’s cooperative group housing societies (CGHS) are increasingly rapidly, while the existing laws for these societies are ineffective. The Registrar Cooperative Societies (RCS) office of Delhi Government, which is supposed to regulate the CGHS affairs, has completely failed in its responsibility to ensure smooth and transparent functioning in the housing societies.

Therefore, there is an immediate need to formulate new laws and implement an effective administrative model to safeguard the rights and interests of millions of people who live in these housing societies. 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