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CR PARK SPEAKS | OUR COLONY, OUR VOICE * CR Park Speaks   Dear Residents, How safe, clean and accessible is our CR Park today? Overflowing dhalaos, broken pavements, encroachments, waterlogging, poor lighting, traffic obstructions, visual clutter and the monkey menace are affecting everyday life in our neighbourhood. *This is a community conversation that needs our attention.* Please take a few minutes to read the attached * CR Park Speaks – Colony Problems * document Link and share it with fellow residents. *Let’s understand the issues. Let’s raise our collective voice. Let’s work towards a cleaner, safer and better CR Park.* *CR PARK SPEAKS* Our colony. Our concerns. Our collective voice.

  A clear legal position on illegal pavement encroachment in Delhi crparkspeaks@gmail.com   Delhi’s footpaths are public pedestrian infrastructure , not private extensions of shops. Street vending is recognised as a livelihood, but it is regulated by designated vending zones, allotted spaces and conditions designed to protect pedestrian movement. The law does not give a shopkeeper or vendor an unrestricted right to occupy a public footpath. 1. The 6 ft × 4 ft rule is a vending-space standard—not ownership of the pavement Under the Delhi Street Vendors Scheme, 2019 , a space of 6 ft × 4 ft is considered for one static/mobile/temporary/night-bazaar vendor. The Scheme also requires vending zones and their capacity to be determined through the prescribed planning/Town Vending Committee process. ( UDD Delhi ) Therefore, a vendor cannot interpret the 6 × 4 ft provision as permission to spread goods, racks, tables, refrigerators, counters, tarpaulins or other structures b...

The Transformation Of E Block, C R Park, Durga Puja Park Courtesy Chittaranjan Park Purbachal Durga Puja Samiti And Resident’s Welfare Association, E-Block, C R Park by Sri Saibal Ghosh, Member, EC of CPPDPS and E-Block RWA, with inputs from Shri S S Roy Burman. The C R Park, E Block park has been the centre point of my life for the past 50 years encompassing my growing up years, since the first time I put my foot on it as an 11-year-old pre-teenager, in the winter of 1976! Since then, for the next 12 years, the air around this park rented with our shouts of joy and despair during our evening football games, cricket matches and of course our ubiquitous ‘addas’.   I remember the hours we spent as teenagers, slogging away to swipe the park with brooms to get rid of the prickly thorns on the ground, hurt our young feet often! Those days C R Park was developing and slowly getting populated with erstwhile wild open spaces turning into makeshift playgrounds with the removal of wild b...

Tapovan: From Dumpyard to Living Example of HKL Community Action By Dr. Joy Dey, Pocket 40, CR Park. Right in the heart of Chittaranjan Park, next to the Kali Mandir, stood a parcel of abandoned land that was slowly turning into a dumpyard. The land began to be tended to by SIGN (Social Initiative for Green Neighborhood) and its members, with especially active stewardship from the late Biplab Dasgupta. What started as a small, committed effort gradually drew in others, who contributed their time, effort, and resources to restore the space. Today, Tapovan stands as a serene urban green space—where flowers bloom, birds return, and neighbors gather. It is not just a physical transformation, but a reflection of what a committed community can achieve together. Members of SIGN recently came together at Tapovan on a Sunday morning, joining similar walks held across the world. The gathering marked the first HKL Meditation Walk in Delhi, part of a growing global movement that, in just a...

Read CR Park Speaks May 2025 Click This Button Dear Readers, Boishakh or the onset of summer - a whirlwind of  change is witnessed in nature.  A riot of colours continue from spring, albeit with a more pronounced and serene stability that sets in to gradually taper off the rebirth of nature that takes place in spring. Nature settles down to provide nourishment, growth, shade and continuity to life.   The magic of nature continues in the vegetation, crops and cultivation where the seasonal vegetation starts to provide coolness, nourishment and natural strength to the living beings, especially the human body. It is like after a night of partying, the body craves for the quiet nourishment of a detox meal the next day- summer imparts that complete detoxification to the human body. The Bangali palette seamlessly adopts the sour, the bitter, the light soups, the boiled vegetables and naturally heals and cools the body. Every dish in an average Bangali h...

Textbook Exercise Questions & Answers (NCERT Science Class 10 – Chapter 15: Our Environment) Q1. What are trophic levels? Give an example of a food chain and state the different trophic levels in it. Ans: Trophic levels are the various steps in a food chain at which the transfer of food and energy takes place. Each level represents an organism in the chain based on its source of food. Example of a food chain: Grass → Grasshopper → Frog → Snake → Eagle Trophic Levels: Grass – Producer (1st trophic level) Grasshopper – Primary consumer (2nd trophic level) Frog – Secondary consumer (3rd trophic level) Snake – Tertiary consumer (4th trophic level) Eagle – Quaternary consumer (5th trophic level) Q2. What is the role of decomposers in the ecosystem? Ans: Decomposers, such as bacteria and fungi, break down dead organisms and organic wastes into simpler substances. This process: Recycles nutrients back into the soil Helps in maintaining the balance of...