CURRENT FOCUS FOR #AAP-KARYAKARTA.

#AAP needs to be proactive as its leadership is already doing in Punjab. All others, in various States need to set up Response Teams to SHADOW the key MPs and MLAs of the local ruling coalitions and use PUBLICITY and local PROTESTS to checkmate their shenigans and chicanery. E.g. in Maharashtra the AAP-Karyakarta took up OpenSpaces, gifting of land, farmer issues, health care to sensitise failures of the past and present govt. Similar examples will be there in other States. These must be multiplied many fold to highlight #AamAadmi issues.

P.A.T.D.I. has always been our platform. So we need to use JanSabhas to get Citizens to take Part and seek Accountability from the key MPs and MLAs. A need for Transperency in budgetary spends and in project selection must be prodded in Citizens and a sense of Decentralization and Integrity must be expectation from the local Govt. Failures must be highlighted at EVERY OPPORTUNITY aggressivly in #AAP style. This is the ONLY long term security of our feudal-democracy.  Citizen suggested apt solutions must be broadcast to the ElectedReps.

Better schooling with Ethics, Morality and Integrity as foundation and Skilling for jobs in Junior and Senior collages is a must. The recent unrest in educational institutions comes from certainty that decent progressive jobs are out of reach and escape to foreign lands is not feasible. We cannot export our TalentedYouth yet freely import foreign ConsumerProducts.

Youth can see only closed doors and no future in FREE INDIA, what must they do, roam the streets and steal bananas? They therefore protest and seek to destroy existing setup without having any working alternative in place. Youth need mentoring and channeling of their frustration. #AAP needs to work on this in all Univ. AAP-Mumbai had arranged debates on current issues years ago and got good response from students and faculty. This needs to be the norm for building grass root politics and 'evolvong opinion' of the constructive kind.  This will ensure that our nation moves from feudalism to swaraj democracy.

These are just observations from past five years of our attempts to change 80 Crore Voters of Bharat.  Comments and debate welcome.
JaiHind! 

Recycling Rainwater

It is now widely accepted that Mumbai and Maharashtra, key regions of Bharat-India, are subject to erratic weather Iincluding uncertain 'monsoon' during June-Sept. each year.  The current @MahaBJP CM @Dev_Fadnavis, has accepted this as reported in: The Economic Times, Mumbai, 20151028, p-4, wherein he states "... days of rainfall are becoming fewer with huge dry spells. Agriculture is not sustainable anymore ..." while explaining his new initiative called JalyuktShivar in 6,200 villages of #Maha.

Infact, the 120 million population of Maharashtra are also aware that water resouces via monsoon, are now unpredictable. Then "ground water charging" during monsoon is most CRITICAL.

Mumbai and Suburbs get ~2100mm rain over 450sqKm (1sqKm = 1million sq.Meters), of city land area, other than the traditional Lakes drainage zone. Almost all is run off into the sea via larger and larger StormWaterDrains, since Mumbai is mostly paved with concrete or bitumen.  The Lakes are unable to supply city with water for more than 200 days.

If 50% rain is saved by 'ground water charging' and diverting thru canals and city wide pipe grid, Mumbai would save: (0.50×2.1×450 million cubic meters = ) 470 Billion Liters (1cubic meter = 1,000 Liters). This is assured water supply for over 125 days for Mumbai (since currently Mumbai recieves 3.75 billion Liters of precious Lakes water per day), without using Lakes water supply. Navi Mumbai and Thane Dist are not included in these calculations. Bore wells will provide water year round, to those plots where ground water charging is done. Simple ActivatedCharcoalFilteration columns will give decent water for bathing and washing. The MCGM can continue to supply drinking water, but at much higher cost and in highly reduced quantity.  This alone will extend the Lakes supply of precious water by many months, totalling probably ~250 days.

Each Institution, Building, Housing Society, Entity using/owning/leasing city real estate must be given target to charge the ground in their plot or divert thru pipes to a city pipe grid, a certain target volume of water. Failure should attract punitive water wastage tax. A time line of two years be given and MCGM must aid, inspect and set up water collection pipe grid across city.

When this is done, the excess Lakes water can be diverted to the drought areas of Maha to provide for Citizens there. Similar works can be commenced in the other Nine Smart Cities of Maharashtra.

I request that my blog, written over TEN YEARS AGO, be studied:
http://www.thinkunderstandacceptadapt.blogspot.in/2008/02/ground-water-charging.html

This could be the one single project of LOW COST, improving and securing the lives of 12Crore Maharashtrians. Obviously, it beats all infrastructur projects, since humans cannot survive without water. Failure of water security would lead to mass immigarion to the South and Maha would lose its prime position in my #Bharat. 

Performance Card for MPs, MLAs, Corporators, Zilla Representatives, all elected for public bodies.

1.  Attendance, min. 75% rule for full year, failing which call for referendum at own cost, in own Constituency. A simple majority to retain seat, rejection means bye-election. Payment will be 25% only for the year under question with zero perks. Attendance means for over 75% of the day, all attendance as per Parliament records.

2.  Jan Sabhas in own Constituency, at least six times in a year, with MoM in public domain, each of min. 4 hour duration, with recording of citizen feedback and sharing of national-state-local information. Failure will mean withdrawal of all perks for the year and only 25% payment for the year under study.

3.  LAD funds spending to be discussed in public meeting, with recording of MoM, same as para-2 above. At least 50% spending will be with citizen approval and payments to be released only with citizen approval, with simple majority during public meeting, after presentation of independant body report.

4.  Disruption, abuse and mis-behaviour during Sabha session will mean full deduction of pay and perks for one month. Repeatative mis-behaviour will mean cut in pay and perks for a month for each incident. Suspension will mean withdrawal of pay and perks for six months for each incident.

5.  Meaningful participation (recording of remarks), a must for 25% debates and discussions. Failure will mean referendum as per para-1 above.

6.  Absention in voting or walkout for more than 50% issues, will attract withdrawal of perks and 50% cut in pay for the period on monthly basis.

7.  Failure to raise citizen issues with Party and persuing same will mean withdrawal of perks on proportionate basis. MoM will be used to determine issues raised, which must be documented with clarity by citizen. All this process to be in public domain.

8.  Must face acceptance referendums in own Constituency at own cost, after half term. A simple majority will allow Representative to continue in office, failure will mean bye-election.

9.  Must set up domain experts group of 5 members for consultation, from registered citizen bodies for development and issues in Constituency.  Only reimburesment of pocket expenses to be made out of own funds. This expert group to be reconstituted for each year with new faces.

COMMENTS AND AMENDMENTS WELCOME.
EoF.