What you can do to save Aarey? There are only 3-5 tasks which need to be done in the priority of effectiveness. And the results from the tasks will show up when a large number of people do it simultaneously. Just like the religious ceremonies when on a particular day or month or season everybody is all together carrying out a particular ritual. 1) Make efforts to garner together a group of your friends by speaking to them about the importance of Aarey. You can post on your wall and speak to them one or one. With a group small or big visit the CMs office on 6th floor Mantralaya seeking a meeting. Please carry along a letter along with you expressing your concern about saving Aarey, clearly mentioning to him that viable alternatives are available and that he needs to intervene. A copy of the draft I made in November is at the end of this link and you can use it for reference. https://rishiaggarwaal.wordpress/2014/12/06/essential-information-on-the-save-aarey-campaign/ Take a photocopy of your letter on which take an acknowledgement from his office. Insist on a meeting and stick around to speak to whoever you can in the vicinity. From entering Mantralaya to exit this will ask for a time commitment of maximum two hours. 2) The same exercise needs to be replicated for Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA). The CM is the Chairman of MMRDA and an IAS officer is the head called as Metropolitan Commissioner. A repeat of the above activities in point 1 can be done for this as well. There is another body called the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRC) which is headed by another IAS officer. MMRDA office is in Bandra (E) near the family court or Maker City and so is the MMRC office. 3) A few day ago I had made a simple A4 size message - No Metro Yard At Aarey - Save Aarey. You can even choose to send such a simple message by email (put it in bold in body text not as attachment) or fax it to the government numbers. I will try put together all emails and numbers otherwise they are there on the websites. 4) Many more political leaders need to be reached out to and depending upon time and commitment you can choose to message all of those who are in your circle of influence. 5) Another very important activity is to make the media aware that the public sentiment is with saving Aarey. MMRDA has an exceptionally good PR network with many key journalists writing in favour. The editors of the papers need to be made aware. Each paper carried a letters to editor email id and maybe fax number also. This is a simple activity which hundreds need to take up. Please write to the papers with Save Aarey message. I would expect everybody who likes this post to at least undertake one of the above activities.
Posted on: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 06:31:19 +0000