File: Pers/Comp/pm-csk
lies-160615 16 Jun 2015
Dear Mr Prime
Minister,
Please find
attached herewith two reports that had appeared in the regional daily, Malayala
Manorama, on 11/6/2015.
doc1-gail-csk ltr to pm-mmpkd-110615.jpg is a report about a letter written by the
Chief Secretary to the Government of Kerala, Jiji Thomson to you. The essence
of the report is that, while agreeing that in the last 15 years only 50 kms of
the 505 kms of pipeline has been laid, he has accused GAIL of dragging its feet
on the work now. On the other hand he claims that the Government of Kerala has
taken serious steps to expedite the work. Of course the first such step he
claims is he has been made responsible for expediting the work! The next steps
are:
- The Chief Minister will be convening an all party meet towards this month end or
early next month!
- Collectors of 7 districts, through which the
pipeline will be passing, have been appointed as nodal officers!
- A team of 5 officers under each Collector for
supervision.
- Police protection for survey!
- Extension of the tenure of Competent
Authority for revenue documentation by six months from 31 May 2015!
Now, as a
permannet resident of of Kerala for the last 17 years, I can say with enough
conviction that the public servants in Kerala are worse than the headload
workers here who have earned notority for claiming ‘nookkukooli‘ for looking at
people who are working! My interventions with the Right to Information Act has
provided me enough documents to even postulate that all public servants are
either idiots or traitors unless proved otherwise! The futility of the tall
claims implied in the steps enumerated above can be easily proven with just one
example- of the failure of the Collectorate, Palakkad to comply with the orders
of the Government of Kerala to issue receipts to the public for documents
submitted by them to the public authorities. The Govt of Kerala has been
issuing circulars repeatedly since 1/1/2005 and the one issued on 12/1/2009
even directs the public authorities to display the format of the receipt in a
board of specific size for the informationof the public! (Copy of this circular
is attached as KeralaGovtCirNo168-AR 13
-2-09-UBPV dated 12 jan 2009.pdf) While my specific complaints on failure
to comply with this order had not elicited any response, my follow up with
applications under the RTI Act have been responded with the perfunctory phrase
‘directions have been given to issue receipts‘ without any further action being
taken to ensure that these directions have been complied with! In response to complaints
to the Chief Minister, the District Collector has given only false reports that
receipts are being given as generated by the application DC Suite and that
receipts as per prescribed format shall be issued only when printed receipt
forms are made available! (Copy of the latest such response from the DC is
attached as comp-cmk-dcpkd-receipts-fm
dcpkd-210415.pdf). That ‘receipts are being given as generated by the
application DC Suite‘ is a lie as can be proved by the documents in my
posession!
Continued....
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There is no need
to wonder what issuing receipts has to do with actions taken to progres the
laying of gas pipeline. When a simple thing like issuing receipts could not be
implemented in 10 years and the public servants can carry on lying without any
shame or being held accountable, is there any need to believe the opportunistic
claims made by the Chief Secretary of the State who incidentally is also an accused in the Palmolien import case!
Yes, the very same case involvement in which had led to the apex court holding the appointment of a
former CVC untenable!
The other media report, doc2-gail-conflict at
alanghat-mmpkd-110615.jpg, attached also proves how futile the assurances
given by the Chief Secretary will remain. This report is about public protest
when a team reached Alanghad for carrying out survey of the land for laying the
piple line.
Well, the density
of population in Kerala is quite high and land acquisition is a very, very
serious problem indeed. And gas piple lines passing through populated areas do
pose serious threats to the people living in the vicinity and their fears
cannot be just trampled upon! Now look at the ineptitude of the government in
evicting encroachers from land acquired for the National Highway. Attached is a
report from Malayala Manorama of 16/6/15 -crime-dc
pkd-nh encroachment-mmpkd-160615.jpg- which shows how the District
adminstration in Palakkad has failed to evict some structures and encroachments
from the land belonging to the National Highway Authority at Vadakkencherry!
The report says that teams of officials with police had gone there 7 times and
returned without being able to perform their task! Now is there anything left to imagine about
the onerous nature of the task of surveying, acquiring and clearing land for a
project that poses potential threat to human lifes?
Yours truly,
P M Ravindran
Sri Narendra
Modi, Prime Minister- through email, pmindia@pmindia.nic.in
Copy to:
Mr Jiji
Thomson, Chief Secretary- through e mail, chiefsecy@kerala.gov.in
Ms Mary Issac,
District Collector, Palakakd- through e mail, dcpkd@kerala.nic.in, pkd_collectorate@messaging.kerala.gov.in
Media- through e mail
Blog at http://raviforjustice.blogspot.in
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