Our Own Young Servants also Need to Dissipate Their Pent-Up Energies & Sports is the Best Option
Maharani Bagh Social media group is abuzz with comments on using parks as play grounds. We keep telling our kids to play outdoors – but WHERE? There are hardly any parks where the kids can play football or cricket or badminton etc. It is good to have beautifully manicured parks but it is equally important to have a place where kids can play without being shooed away by residents. If I have to drive my kids somewhere so that they can play outdoors for half an hour then the whole purpose is defeated.
We can lecture our kids all we want but eventually they will turn around and ask us, “O.K, but WHERE should we go and play?”
The park near my house which the kids TRY to use are screamed at by residents for laughing too loud or causing dust to fly, or making too much noise. Their football, Cosco ball etc are often confiscated and threats are issued to the kids about how their parents will be told if they do not listen.
These kids are our future and we need to ensure that they are well rounded, and playing outdoors constitutes a large part of that. We grew up with these facilities and we preach the importance of the outdoors, we publish in papers and magazines that kids are obese today, they are couch potatoes, their screen time should reduce, how they should play sports etc. etc. Then I think it is only right that we should ensure that there are enough parks that they can play in, that we should come together to make this happen and provide our kids with the basic facility of being able to play outdoors.
One of the issues being discussed and raised in the colony groups is that big ruffian boys from Taimoor Nagar and other low-lying areas also use the parks play big games and how to control that. The question here is that all colony parks are public parks and where would these boys who have equal rights go and play. The other important section of boys are our own young servants and they need to dissipate their pent-up energies and sports is the best option.
I would like to make you aware of High Court’s judgment in Rajinder Nagar Welfare Association vs MCD and ORS dated 26 April 2011, + WP(C) NO.13516/2009 given by Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw, stating that RWA should not act as selfish giants and ordered RWA to allow kids to play in the park. The issue here is that the kids are still not allowed to play, which means it is infringement of law. I have brought up this matter in front of you on behalf of fellow residents and aggrieved kids, in a hope that this matter will be resolved at the earliest as possible or we will be forced to file a PIL stating infringement of law, violation of Human Rights, Violation of Master Plan of Delhi, 2021 in Clause 9.6.
