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Young defends Government's decision to refuse notification of Top Cop
Communications Minister Stuart Young has sought to explain why the Government refused to debate the new notification for the nomination of acting DCP Harold Phillip for the post of Commissioner of Police, in the House of Representatives on Tuesday.
Acting DCP Phillip was the second-ranked nominee by the Police Service Commission after Deodath Dulalchan, whose notification of nomination for the Top Cop position was rejected by Government on the basis that the process was flawed and must be restarted.
Leader of Government Business Camille Robinson-Regis on Tuesday indicated that she was informed by the Clerk that a document had come to the House as it relates to the notification for the nomination of acting DCP Phillip to post of Commissioner of Police.
The Minister said she instructed the Clerk that the matter will not be proceeded with.
The Communications Minister was questioned by reporters at the post-cabinet media briefing on Thursday, as to what transpired in Parliament earlier this week.
"What happened on Tuesday is that the Leader of Government Business was giving an indication of Government's position really to negate any mischief that we've seen in the past. And to be quite blunt to kill any conversations that we expected to do with race and other issues that those in Opposition may want to raise and really to indicate the Government's position that we will be sticking to what has been said before, that the process is flawed so anything coming out of the same process, the government will be taking the same position."
Debate on the notification of the nomination of Phillip will now take place on Monday.
Young said the government will clearly state its position then.
"As you will be aware right now, on the order paper, there is a sitting on Monday in the House of Representatives. We will deal with what has been sent by her Excellency from the Police Service Commission, which is the nomination of the acting DCP Harold Phillip for the post of Commissioner of Police,' Minister Young indicated.
On Wednesday, Opposition Leader accused the government of gross competence over what she said was moves to subvert the Constitution with regard to Minister Camille Robinson-Regis' instruction to the Parliament not to proceed with laying and debating the President's notification of a nomination to the office of Commissioner of Police.
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- Farmers flay NHAI for destroying irrigation pond TNN | Updated: Mar 9, 2018, 01:05 IST
Tirupur: Farmers from Velampatti area have come out against the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) for destroying an irrigation pond on Avinashipalayam-Avinashi Road to construct a toll gate near Palladam.
NHAI had been conducting work for the Avinashipalayam-Avinashi Road that would connect Salem-Coimbatore and Trichy-Coimbatore national highways at a cost of Rs 167 crore. For constructing a toll gate in Velampatti in North Avinashipalayam panchayat, NHAI authorities filled 70% of the tank with soil, local farmers said.
"The pond was the main water source for irrigation as well as drinking in Velampatti and surrounding villages. More than 100 acres of agricultural lands were depending on it directly and indirectly. We had desilted it spending Rs 10 lakh and it was receiving water from the Parambikulam-Aliyar project irrigation scheme," former CPI ward councillor of Thonguttipatti panchayat E Jothi Basu told TOI.
"It is unfortunate that while there were ways to construct the toll gate without disturbing the irrigation tank, NHAI did not bother about it," he added.
K Sathish, a local farmer, requested NHAI not to set up the toll gate on the road as it would affect local farmers. "Hundreds of farmers use the road to transport their produces to the Tirupur farmers' market. They will be forced to pay toll for transportation vegetables," he added.
- 145 residents get notice from HR&CE TNN | Mar 10, 2018, 00:05 IST Tirupur: More than 100 residents from KVR Nagar, Ayyan Nagar and Chella Nagar in the city on Friday submitted a petition to the HR&CE assistant commissioner S V Harshini requesting her not to force them to vacate their houses.
Recently, the HR&CE board had issued notices to encroachers at KVR Nagar and Mangalam Road areas to vacate the land belonging to the department. According to HR&CE officials, nearly 12 acres belonging to the department have been encroached in these two areas.
Tirupur south MLA S Gunasekaran accompanied the residents to submit the petition. According to HR& CE sources, Tirupur's Visveswara Veeraraghava Perumal temple owns 3.75 acres at KVR Nagar and 3.08 acres at Karuvampalayam and its surrounding areas.
Similarly, 4.31 acres in the same locality near Mangalam Road belonged to Visveswara Visalatchi Amman temple, Nallur. Patta or sale deeds of all the properties are in the name of the respective temples till date, sources said.
The board has identified more than 145 houses and commercial establishments being encroached on those lands for more than four decades. So, the executive officers of the temples have issued show cause notices to the encroachers.
"We have identified the encroachers and gave them two choices; they should either vacate the land or should be ready to pay land rentals to the board. But so far, no one including a commercial establishment, which alone had encroached 1.33 acres, was ready to follow it," said a HR&CE official.
J Kathirvel, one of the petitioners, said, "All these lands were bought from different parties over the years and the lands' ownerships were changed to many hands in many cases."
"But now, the HR&CE has issued show cause notices claiming that the lands belonged to the board. It is unfair to force us to vacate as we will lose our livelihoods," he added.
- Coimbatore corporation to set up kiosks for grievance redressal TNN | Updated: Mar 12, 2018, 13:04 IST
COIMBATORE: Gone are the days when one had to wait for long hours to get grievances redressed by civic authorities. The city municipal corporation has planned to set up four kiosks in the main office building at Town Hall to redress the grievances at a fast pace.
Similar kiosks will be set up in other offices of the civic body as well, said a senior official of the corporation.
"These kiosks will be integrated with the corporation's grievance redress mobile application. The grievances and complaints registered by the public will be monitored by senior officials at every step," said an official. The city corporation already has a 'CCMC digital grievance redress mobile application'. Kiosks will be set up on the same lines.
"Once we register on the mobile application, the same registration ID can be used at the kiosks. People visiting the corporation offices can log onto the network and register their complaints. These complaints will be forwarded to the officials concerned who will pass it to senior officials if they are not redressed within a stipulated timeline," said an official.
The kiosks are ready and the corporation officials will launch it soon. It will be like a tablet or an I-Pad placed on a stand. It will be in two languages to begin with and will have various categories. Once the registration is complete and the complaints are raised, the status will be available on the application.
"Whenever people submit petitions, the papers could be thrown into dust bins. Nobody can track them. But on this kiosk and app, a central admin portal will be there. The system will map every official involved in the issue. The grievance will be allocated to a particular officer along with timeline. If no action has been taken within the stipulated time, the grievance will go to a senior official. Every official will be accountable," said an official. Currently, the mobile application works on local server which has been shut due to some issues. "We will migrate to Cloud soon and all these issues will be resolved. Permissions have been sought for this and we are hopeful that once we migrate from local server, all the applications and systems will work better," said a technical in-charge of the application. Whenever heavy applications run on local server, the bandwidth becomes limited.
He added that if these kiosks are launched, the Coimbatore Corporation will be one of the first government divisions to move to Cloud and launch such an application.
- Rs 320cr to acquire land for ring road project TNN | Updated: Mar 14, 2018, 00:23 IST
Coimbatore: The state government has sanctioned Rs 320 crore to acquire 355.5 acres in 16 villages in the district to construct the 32.43km Western Ring Road. The four-lane road would enable motorists from south-west Coimbatore to reach the northern part without entering the city. Also, tourists from Kerala on the way to Ooty and Mettupalayam will have a hassle-free journey once the road is completed.
The ring road would start from Sugunapuram near Kuniyamuthur on Coimbatore-Palakkad Road and would reach Narasimmanaickenpalayam through Sundakkamuthur, Perur, Theethipalayam, Madampatti, Pannimadai, Gudalur and Narasimmanaickenpalayam. To implement the project, the state government is planning to acquire 355.6 acres at Kuniyamuthur, Madukkarai, Sundakkamuthur, Perur, Perur Chettipalayam, Vadavalli, Narasimmanaickenpalayam, Gudalur, Pannimadai, Nanjundapuram, Chithiraichavadi West, Kalikkanaickenpalayam, Madampatti, Theethipalayam, Kavundampalayam and Somayampalayam. These 16 villages fall under Madukkarai, Perur and Coimbatore North taluks.
The state government had allotted Rs 825 crore for the road project last year. Two units, consisting of special tahsildars Raja and Muruganandam, and land surveyors had started survey a month ago. The revenue department will soon issue notification to the land owners to acquire the needed land for the project soon, sources said.
Collector TN Hariharan conducted a meeting with the revenue department officials and state highways department officials at his camp office at Race Course on Tuesday evening and instructed them to expedite land acquisition.
- Green light for 3 lake beautification works TNN | Updated: Mar 15, 2018, 00:27 IST
Coimbatore: The city lakes will finally get a makeover at an estimated cost of Rs 88cr under the smart city project. Three quick win projects that have been sanctioned are the Valankulam promenade, Valankulam under bridge makeover and a promenade at Ukkadam lake.
The projects are the first to be taken up under the smart city. The state government has already given administrative sanction for them.
"Once we get the technical sanction, we will call for tenders and begin the work within a month," city corporation commissioner K Vijayakarthikeyan told TOI.
The New Delhi-based consultant had envisaged development of parks, a multi-purpose space for skating, dance, aerobics, clay modelling and a skill development centre to improve employment opportunities for the urban poor at a space overlooking the lake under the flyover near Valankulam lake.
For the promenade at Valankulam, the consultant plans to make it a pedestrian-safe street by introducing pedestrian crossings. The design also aims to create an entrance plaza and spaces for vendors, public conveniences and food kiosks to make it a place for people to enjoy. A visual element, which will be prominent and visible at night from top of the Valankulam Flyover will also be set up.
At Ukkadam lake, the Perur Byepass Road, which is an important road, will be redesigned for pedestrian safety in such a way that the lake side is visible from the road. Green infrastructure elements will be set up and the promenade will be set up so that people can enjoy the lake-view. The roads leading to the lake will also be designed in such a way that they are connected to the promenade.
Both the Valankulam and Ukkadam promenades will be non-motorised corridors.
"We will use natural methods to treat sewage before water is allowed into the lakes. Also, other infrastructure will be set up to dispose garbage and sewage entering the lake so that the water remains clean," Vijayakarthikeyan added.
- Metro rail announcement cheers city Mayilvaganan| TNN | Mar 16, 2018, 00:30 IST Coimbatore: Deputy chief minister O Panneerselvam gave a reason for the residents of Coimbatore to cheer in the state budget presented on Thursday, though he only reiterated what chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami announced a few months ago. Giving a go ahead to the much-awaited metro rail project for the city, Panneerselvam announced that a detailed project report would be prepared for the multi-crore initiative.
The project, once materialises, is expected to decongest traffic on arterial Avinashi Road. Though the state government toyed with various ideas including a mono rail project and bus rapid transport system to offer a workable long-term solution to the traffic problem in Coimbatore, EPS announced during the MGR birth centenary celebrations in Coimbatore on December 3 that feasibility study would be conducted for metro rail. He followed it up with an announcement that tenders have been called for to study the feasibility of the project. OPS said that the study has been initiated and that the DPR would be prepared soon taking the project to the next level.
"The long-felt need of Coimbatore is the implementation of metro rail project, which we hope will see the light of the day in the forthcoming year. We also expect allocation of funds for acquiring lands for Coimbatore airport expansion project," said president of the Coimbatore chapter of the Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI) Vanitha Mohan.
The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) also welcomed the announcement. "The announcement to initiate a detailed project report (DPR) towards establishment of Coimbatore Metro Rail is a welcome move," said M Ramesh, chairman of CII Coimbatore zone.
The industry, as well as residents, also welcomed the other announcements made in the budget speech for Coimbatore. "Establishment of TICEL Bio Park in Coimbatore will attract high-tech biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies to the city. Effort to initiate an integrated urban development project for the city in co-operation with GIZ, Germany is also a welcome step for its planned development," said Ramesh.
However, micro and small industries expressed disappointment over the budget stating that there are very few measures to help the small players. President of the Kovai Power Driven Pumps and Spares Manufacturers Association (KOPMA) K Maniraj said that they were demanding a welfare board for pumpset manufacturers for more than a decade.
- AAI ready to invest 1,500 crore: Airport director TNN | Mar 21, 2018, 00:25 IST
As the expansion plan is ready to takeoff soon, director of the Coimbatore International Airport R Mahalingam said that the Airport Authority of India (AAI) was ready to invest Rs 1,500 crore to develop the infrastructure of the airport if the land acquisition was completed.
AAI will start the work immediately and the terminal building will be constructed on the southern side near L&T Bypass Road. Flyers can easily reach the airport from Neelambur as well.
"If the land is handed over to us, we would start the work immediately and the AAI plans to construct a big terminal building on the southern side. People from L&T Bypass and Neelambur can easily reach the new terminal and the AAI would invest at least Rs 1,000 crore for the terminal building alone. We also plan to construct 20 aero bridges and more than 20 parking bays. It will become one of the biggest airports," said Mahalingam.
According to sources, the AAI also plans to lay a 120 feet road for a stretch of 1.5 km to reach the new terminal from Avinashi Road near Hotel Le Meridian.
Former president of Chinniyampalayam village panchayat N Devarajan, who has been fighting against the state government for more than a decade, told TOI that the state government had planned to demolish more than 600 houses at Chinniyampalayam and surrounding areas in the name of airport expansion.
"Now the state government has fixed a rate of Rs 1,500 per square feet for residential areas. It has to be increased to Rs 3,000 per sq ft. Similarly, the state government has to increase the compensation rate of Rs 1,200 per sq ft for agricultural land from Rs 900. The government has to allot Rs 4,000 crore for land acquisition for the airport expansion. Then only, the people who are going to lose their houses and agricultural lands can lead a decent life. Otherwise, they cannot even buy a house in Coimbatore," said Devarajan.
He also accused the state government of not allowing land registration in the area for the last 15 years. Hence, the land guideline value and market value are remaining the same. One cent of land has touched Rs 12-13 lakh at PLS Nagar and Duraisamy Nagar in Chinniyampalayam. So, the government should provide adequate compensation to land owners.
Airport expansion: Rs 2,000 crore sought for land acquisition TNN | Updated: Mar 21, 2018, 00:28 IST
Buoyed up by 90% of owners agreeing to give their land for the Coimbatore International Airport expansion, the district administration has asked the state government to release a fund of Rs 2,000 crore to pay as compensation for the land owners. The administration has shot off a letter to the state government last month seeking the fund.
In total, 627.89 acres of land, including 137 acres of defence land and 28 acres of poromboke land, would be acquired for the airport expansion.
The district administration has fixed a price of Rs 1,500 per sq ft for housing land and Rs 900 per sq ft for agriculture land. This would be the highest compensation to be given to the general public by the state government. The authorities have to raze down 634 houses for the land acquisition. Over 90% of the land owners have agreed to accept the compensation and 10% people are fighting against the acquisition.
The Airport Authority of India (AAI) has been trying to expand the Coimbatore International Airport for more than 10 years. Land acquisition has been a major bottleneck for the district administration to implement the expansion project. The AAI plans to expand runway from 9,500 feet to 12,500 feet. It has demanded the state government to acquire at least 1,000 acres of land. However, residents of Chinniyampalayam and Irugur panchayats were up in arms when the expansion plan was announced a decade ago.
Two years ago, the district administration decided to acquire 627.89 acres of the land in the eastern side of the airport to expand the runway and terminal buildings.
A senior officer from the revenue department said: "The Indian Air Force (IAF) has 122 acres of land, army has 5.82 acres and the Indian Navy has 6.38 acres allotted to them in 1944. We promised them to provide 134 acres of land in Kanchipuram district and a proposal was sent to the defence ministry by the special district revenue officer (airport land acquisition) Radhamani. We have 28 acres of poromboke in the eastern side of the airport. We have to acquire 465.89 acres, including agricultural lands and house sites, from 4,399 people."
He said the state government may provide more than Rs 2,000 crore as compensation for the land acquisition. Land owners will get decent compensation from the state government, he added.
According to the revenue department, around 90% of land owners have agreed to give their lands for the airport expansion. "We are trying to convince the rest 10% to accept the compensation. But some of them are instigating others not to handover their lands to the government. We hope that the land acquisition process will be over in April-end. Then only the state government will sanction the compensation fund of more than Rs 2,000 crore," the officer said.
- Corpn loses Rs 5cr every year as its shops lie vacant TNN | Mar 21, 2018, 00:22 IST
Coimbatore: Only 10 people attended the auction conducted by the city corporation for leasing out 70 of its commercial shops across the city on Tuesday. While only two shops were selected, even corporation officials were not certain if the bidders will finalise the deal.
High rent and bad locations coupled with nexus between politicians and officials have resulted in the corporation losing out more than Rs 5cr consecutively in the last two years. In 2015, the civic body had put up 2,669 shops for auction targeting Rs 1,300cr. But, it managed to collect only Rs 764cr. In 2016, for the 2,677 shops, the revenue earned was Rs 788cr, while the target was Rs 1,337cr.
Most of these shops were constructed between 2014 and 2015. "In 2014, several reserve sites in the corporation were encroached and many anti-social elements had taken over the sites. So, we decided to convert them into commercial places and earn revenue," said an official. RTI replies revealed that during 2014-2015, a resolution was passed by the corporation to build 240 shops in 25 locations for Rs 8cr.
RTI activist SP Thiyagarajan said that on V K Road, two shops were set up in 2015. "But, they have lied vacant ever since. Similarly, several shops in central, east and south zone lay vacant. It is not just about the revenue. All these shops have been constructed flouting norms. The corporation did not get DTCP approvals for any of the constructions. They have not provided facilities such as parking, toilets and generators. Also, many of these shops have been set up on revenue land and in lands earmarked for other purposes," he said.
Another civic activist, Manoj Arun, said that the corporation has been continuously setting up new shops despite suffering revenue loss. "Many shops, such as the ones near Puliyakulam, Shastri Maidhan and Masakalipalayam, are vacant from the day they were inaugurated," he said.
Meanwhile, corporation officials blamed the high rent fixed by the public works department, which is between Rs 4,500 and Rs 30,000. "The rents were increased as per a government order in 2012 and since then, we have been facing difficulty in leasing out the shops. Not many people are interested in these shops due to the high rent," a senior official said.
"Only a few older shops have flouted norms and we are working towards correcting that. We have sent notices to collect the dues from several others," he added.
- Effluent treatment plants await reports to increase utilization capacities TNN | Mar 22, 2018, 00:42 IST
Tirupur: Four common effluent treatment plants (CETP) in the city are awaiting reports from Anna University and Indian Institute of Technology-Madras to increase utilization of their capacities.
The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) would take into account the evaluation of either of those two pioneer technical institutes on capacities of the CETPs before allowing them to increase the utilization.
As many as 18 CETPs are functioning to assist more than 350 dyeing units to treat coloured water as part of zero liquid discharge (ZLD) norm in Tirupur district, apart from more than 100 individual effluent treatment plants.
A TNPCB official said, "The CETPs would have been established to handle the industrial effluents to certain capacities but they would not have installed all the required equipment and ensured infrastructure, to achieve the capacity target, as mentioned in their respective detailed project reports (DPR). It should be known that they have required machineries for primary and secondary treatment processes, and also reject management system. So, it needed the intervention of the technical experts to evaluate their current capacities. Hence, the services of AU and IIT-M became obvious."
The CETPs would obtain the evaluation reports from the institutes and submit them to TNPCB, which would further inspect before finalizing the utilization of their capacities.
Among CETPs, the utilization of the capacities allowed was ranging from 15% to 90%. Arulpuram CETP in Ganapathipalayam and Park CETP in Angeripalayam were the two facilities allowed to operated 90% of their capacities, said the official.
Four CETPs are waiting for reports from AU and IIT-M, which have completed the evaluation process in respective facilities, and soon, they are likely to submit the same before TNPCB, said the sources.
Meanwhile, Tirupur MP V Sathyabama has urged the central government to make ZLD norm mandatory in all textile clusters throughout the country.
The MP met Union environmental minister Harsh Vardhan and emphasized its importance to minimize the impact on the environment. She also underlined that because of the absence of ZLD system in other parts of the country, the dyeing sector in Tirupur textile cluster, which was the first to have the system in place, was suffering without level playing field.
In a letter submitted to the Union minister, Sathyabama said, "The implementation of 18 CETPs in Tirupur is not only protecting the environment but also provide recycled water for the public. The ZLD system was made possible with contribution of Rs 700 crore interest-free loans/grant from the central and state governments. The industrialists themselves pumped in additional Rs 370 crore to implement the system."
"Since the implementation of ZLD is not mandatory in other parts of the country, their processing cost is 15% less what it is at Tirupur. Hence the dyeing sector in the dollar city is affected badly and 'penalized' for implementing the CETPs to protect the environment and reduce pollution," she said.
In order to create a level playing field in the dyeing sector, the Union government should make the ZLD system mandatory across the country, she mentioned.
- Coimbatore civic body plans to pocket Rs 45 crore by regularising unapproved plots
According to corporations town planning wing, there are 663 unapproved layouts in the city and 35,000 plots need to be regularizedTNN | March 24, 2018, 18:00 ISTW
With a proposal to earn Rs 45 crore in the process, the city corporation plans to regularise 35,000 unapproved plots this year, bringing some cheer to the residents. The owners will be able to develop their plotsdespite it meant violating the government rules and norms.
According to corporations town planning wing, there are 663 unapproved layouts in the city and 35,000 plots need to be regularized. An official in the town planning wing said, After getting approval from the local planning authority (LPA), these plots will be regularised by the corporation. Residents will have to remit a sum of Rs 100 per square metre in the government account as regularisation charges and Rs 500 per sq m to the corporation as development charges.
This is as per the government order issued in October, 2017. For a 2,400 square feet plot, Rs 1,11,524 will have to be paid. The corporation will earn nearly Rs 45 crore as additional revenue from this.
But activists said that this scheme was announced nearly six months ago and that the LPA was yet to speed up the process. We had submitted our application nearly two months ago. I was told that the corporation officials will come and conduct the survey and give us the details of the amount to be remitted. But we have not received any communication, said Krishnan, a resident.
K Kathirmathiyon, an activist, said that only the town and country planning authority has the power to regularise plots. Only the development charges will come to the corporation in this scheme. Once the regularisation process is completed, the corporation has to provide facilities such as street lights, drains, roads and improve the reserve sites which will only be an additional burden, he said.
Activists urged the civic body to be pro-active and enforce the laws. Instead of this, the corporation should levy penalty on residents constructing without building plan and violate building norms. Illegal and unauthorized constructions can be identified and owners can be penalized which will provide them with income, said Kathirmathiyon.
- Only 30% of Coimbatore households are installed with water meters TNN | Updated: Apr 7, 2018, 13:37 IST Representative image
COIMBATORE: Though it was nearly four decades ago that the first water meters were installed in the city, the city corporation has so far covered only 30% of the households.
The civic body claims to have provided a total of 2.70 lakh water connections in the old city area that covers 60 wards. Another 1.45 lakh connections were provided to the added areas in the last five years, corporation officials said. But, social activists and residents said that half of the meters are not functional.
Currently, clerks of the civic body visit the other households and take an average of the quantum of water consumed over a few months and collect nominal charge. "Nobody knows the exact water consumption as it is not metered at all," said a resident.
As per the Government of India, the local bodies should meter the water and ensure that waste is reduced to 20%. "But currently, more than 40% of the water is getting leaked, which is a huge revenue loss to the government," said an official.
Not a single house in Cheran Maa Nagar — an added area in the city — has water meters, said NR Ravishankar, a resident. "We pay Rs 360 per year as water supply charges," he said. If the civic body makes it mandatory, the residents would buy the meters themselves and install them, he said. "We are ready to invest in good water meters. But, the civic body needs to have an intent. Instead of them buying low-quality water meters that become dysfunctional within a few weeks, we are ready to spend our money on good quality meters," he told TOI.
A senior water supply engineer, however, contested these numbers and said nearly 70% of the city had been provided with water supply connections. "It is true that the water meters do not function. But the meters have been installed in the homes," he said.
But, activists said that though the 60 wards in old city have water meters, half of them are non-functional.
Another engineer said that under the Vadavalli-Kavundampalayam Water Supply Scheme and the Added Areas Water Supply Improvement Scheme, more than eight added-areas will have an improved water supply distribution network and water meters will be installed. "In the city's core area, under the 24x7 water supply scheme, smart meters will be installed," said an official.
The official also added that in the past two years, water meters were installed for every new water connection. "The numbers are definitely higher now," said an official stating that at least 70% will be covered. Meanwhile, urban experts stressed that more than the metering of water consumption, water leakage has to be metered.
"That is called non-revenue water. The entire water that is pumped gets leaked and more focus should be on stopping that. We have set up some pilot projects in Ramakrishnapuram tank and also in ward 73 to meter water leakage and water consumption. This will soon be extended to all wards," said a senior official.
- Rally demands patta for forest dwellers in Gudalur, Pandalur TNN | Apr 10, 2018, 00:43 IST
Udhagamandalam: Over 3,000 people from across Gudalur constituency took part in a rally demanding patta (revenue record required to prove legal ownership over a plot) for the forest dwellers in Gudalur and Pandalur taluks in Nilgiri district on Monday.
The forest dwellers have been demanding patta over three decades, Tamil Nadu Congress committee president S Thirunavukarasu, who led the rally, said. "The government should immediately come forward to resolve the complexity of janmam land act and help the forest dwellers," he said while speaking at a public meeting later. The government should also take proper measures to curtail man-animal conflict in Gudalur and Pandalur areas, he demanded.
Earlier, Thirunavukarasu and other Congress functionaries observed a fast as part of a nation-wide protest called by Congress against the amendment made in the SC/ST act.
In May 2014, bringing to an end one of the longest-fought legal wars in the high court that lasted over two decades, a division bench cancelled 'patta' given on the basis of specious documents and upheld denial of 'patta' for others, including planters, encroachers and corporate houses in janmam lands in Gudalur region. The case involved a large number of individuals and companies, including the Birla group, enjoying over 20,000 acres of land, demanding 'ryotwari patta' claiming that the lands were being cultivated by their predecessors and they were in continuous possession since purchase. Subsequently, they approached the Supreme Court challenging the HC verdict. The case is still pending.
- Land acquisition for Coimbatore airport again runs into trouble Pointing out that the Airport Authority of India had been using their 22.54 acres of land under lease for decades, PR Jaganathan, a land owner, said the compensation was fixed at Rs 1,500 per sqftTNN | April 09, 2018, 18:00 IST
COIMBATORE: Land acquisition for the city airport expansion is likely to hit another roadblock with a section of land owners alleging that the district administration was trying to go back on the compensation amount fixed some nine months ago.
"The government had fixed the rate for both the agricultural land and house sites, but didn't provide the compensation. Now, the government is planning to revise the rates. It will definitely affect the land acquisition process," the land owners said and added that they would approach the district administration officials on Monday.
Pointing out that the Airport Authority of India had been using their 22.54 acres of land under lease for decades, PR Jaganathan, a land owner, said the compensation was fixed at Rs 1,500 per sqft as they had constructed buildings there for flight operations. "We agreed and gave the acceptance letter to the district revenue officer (airport land acquisition). Now, officials say they can treat the land as agriculture land and provide only Rs 900 per sqft," he said, adding, "We will meet the collector and request him to provide the fixed compensation."
Meanwhile, Tamizhaga Vivasayigal Sangam has lodged a petition with the collector, demanding a hefty compensation for each coconut tree to be felled for the project. "More than 1,000 coconut trees have be axed for the project. They are our livelihood and we want Rs 50,000 as compensation per tree," said AK Shanmugam, state vice -resident, Tamizhaga Vivasayigal Sangam.
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Private ambulances are parked on the the sides of a link road connecting Tiruchi Road and Sungam-Ukkadam bypass in Coimbatore.S. SIVA SARAVANAN At some places, the tank has been levelled to park vehicles
Dumping of debris continues on the link road connecting Tiruchi Road and Sungam bypass, encroaching portions of the Valankulam despite the issue having come to the knowledge of authorities.
It looks like more areas are levelled on the road using debris dumped along the side of the road.
At some places, the tank levelled by the miscreants is now wide enough to park lorries and other heavy vehicles on the roadside.
Sanjay Prasad, chief coordinator of Environmentalist Foundation of India, said that the corporation recently removed debris from the place after the issue was taken to its attention. However, dumping continued a few days later.
R. Manikandan of Kovai Kulangal Paathukaapu Amaipu said that authorities should set an example by identifying the offenders and imposing fine on them so that the practice can be controlled.
"Though action against the offenders can be taken by authorities namely the Corporation, PWD and the police, there has been lethargic approach. The police seems unaware of various laws for the protection of wetlands under provisions of which offenders can be booked," said Mr. Manikandan.
Apart from dumping of construction debris, the tank is also facing threats in the form of littering plastic and other non-biodegradable waste into the water posing risk for various living organisms.
"We found a coffin dumped in the lake during a cleaning drive conducted recently. Some of the people from the locality told us that coffin was dumped from an ambulance. Liquor bottles are also thrown into the water," said Mr. Prasad.
Mr. Manikandan said that sewage from Coimbatore Medical College Hospital is also released into the tank without treating it.
Corporation Commissioner K. Vijayakarthikeyan said that the civic body is working on a long-term solution to control the menace which will be addressed once the processing plant for construction and demolition waste comes up at Ukkadam.
He said that tenders have been floated for the development activities at Valankulam and Periyakulam under Smart City Project.
The places reclaimed by dumping and levelling along the side of Valankulam road had turned to a parking lot for some of the private ambulance operators in the city.
Those living in the locality allege that private ambulance operators are facilitating the dumping of debris at night as they are able to create parking space by levelling them.
They shifted the fleet of private ambulances to the road after authorities cleared their parking space in front of Coimbatore Medical College Hospital (CMCH) some years ago.
Though dead bodies are transported using the free hearse service of the Government, people depend on private ambulance when mortuary vans are unavailable.
"We are forced to park ambulances here as there is no parking space available near CMCH or on Government Arts College Road. Our vehicles need to be located near hospitals to get some business," said an ambulance driver who denied allegations of their role in levelling the debris. Apart from private ambulances, a stretch along the side of Sungam – Ukkadam bypass is occupied by trucks (used for cleaning septic tank), operators of which are accused of releasing waste into the lake.
- Police seize another truck smuggling Noyyal sand TNN | Apr 15, 2018, 00:30 IST
Coimbatore: A day after city-based social activists blocked a truck carrying smuggled sand from the Noyyal riverbed, Perur police seized another such truck on Saturday.
Police have arrested the driver, cleaner and a labourer. "We stopped the truck and arrested the men after receiving a tip-off. The seized truck was handed over to the Perur tahsildhar and the men were produced before the executive magistrate," Perur deputy superintendent of police Velmurugan Arumugham said. In a Facebook post, the DSP has requested residents to inform him about sand smuggling.
Easy access to the riverbed, support of politicians as well as police and revenue officials have made the Alandurai-Karunya-Madhuvarayapuram-Perur-Thondamuthur belt a hotspot for sand smuggling, activists say. The smugglers have dug up huge pits on the riverbed at Alandurai and neighbouring villages, TOI found on Saturday.
Sakthivel of NGO Noyyal Nadhi Paadhugaapu Kuzhu said that this has been happening for over two decades. "Unless there is political will and the district administration takes a strong stand, this cannot be stopped," he said.
Another activist pointed out that the local police station was just 500m away from the river and it was quite impossible that the officers were ignorant about sand smuggling. "Donkeys and bullock carts are used to transport sand throughout the night when police are on patrol. Even if they miss, whenever we notice, we inform police. However, the officers often do not turn up and even let the drivers escape with the lorry in front of us," an activist said.
TOI is in possession of a video showing lorry owners boasting how they do the trade by bribing police officers.
Meanwhile, police officers at Alandurai, Karunya and Perur police limits said they were extremely short-staffed. "We need evidence to prove the theft. Whenever we go there, their spies inform them after which they hide in the wilderness. We get to see only donkeys, bullock carts. So, we cannot register any case against them. Also, when we seize lorries, it becomes difficult to prove that they were used for selling sand," said a police officer.
State deputy secretary of Pattali Makkal Katchi Ashok Srinithi, against whom the city police had filed cases after he stopped a sand-laden lorry on Friday, said that they had already sent samples of the sand for testing.


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Richard Janes: The number of homeless youth around the world is staggering, with some putting the number as high as 100 million children. My guest today has dedicated his life to supporting this vulnerable and often brushed aside part of our community. From organizing events for Sarah Brown, wife of the former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, through to working in one of Rio's most dangerous favelas, he has seen firsthand the devastating effects that homelessness brings.
What may surprise you is the tool through which he approaches his work – that of soccer. Now, for many, soccer is more than a sport, it's a passion. Its dominance as the most popular sport in the world is unparalleled with nearly half of the world's population tuning in during the 2018 World Cup.
But what many fans are not aware of is the other Soccer World Cup Tournament that kicks off just a few weeks prior – that of the Street Child World Cup, an event that unites former homeless and street connected youth from around the world to play soccer and attend a participatory conference to challenge the negative perception and treatment of homeless youth across the world.
My guest today is Joe Hewitt, the CEO and founder of The Sports Creative, a newly formed non-profit creating sports programs and partnerships around the world for at-risk youth. We started off by diving into that defining moment when his passion found a purpose.
Joe Hewitt: When I was 16 years old, my father took me to visit by brother who lived in South Africa at the time. He left when I was 12, so he was 21 and he was working with street children. Now, I went in there for the summer and I volunteered this street child organization. Whilst there, I thought what can I do, what's useful for me to do. And I loved football, so I would set up football trainings every day with the kids there.
And I got particularly close with a young lad called Pinda. Pinda wasn't great at football and he was very good at basketball and I was terrible at basketball, so we'd teach other these sports each day and we built a friendship. And here's a middleclass kid from England and a kid from the streets in South Africa, but there was this bond through sport that was very, very powerful. When I left, I left a Tottenham jersey under his pillow and then went back to my life in the UK.
Six months later, he was murdered. You know, it was probably over less than a pound or something like that, less than a dollar. My brother told me that news and I was very young at the time and it stunned me and I thought how different the trajectories of our lives were. What I took away from that was the bridge that had been built through sport, through football, through basketball. I don't think I played football again without thinking of a pair of sport and what it can be and what a bridge it can be in society, and I suppose I kind of thought if any I could have stayed longer and could have kept building that friendship with Pinda.
When I was a teenager, I was trying very much to fit in and try to be part of the cool group, always tried to assimilate and to fit in. And when I heard that news about Pinda and I was reflecting on the work my brother was doing out there, I found it very inspiring—I found it very inspiring. So I think it changed my way of thinking. I think that was the start of a new path for me. Two years later I went on to study International Development and Community Studies and to try and discover who I was and to find my passion because I think for so long I had just as many teenagers do, you try to fit in and be part of the cool crowd. I grew up in a wonderful family, a very supportive family and I've always felt like I am somebody, but there's a lot of young people who don't have that support in their life and you can understand why they feel the way they do.
The structures of life haven't been there for them. The structure of the family which you and I might have experienced. The structure of society, again, which we have experienced. They haven't had no protection of their rights as children, the right to play safely, the right to develop safely.
The narrative for them in society is you're a failure. You're going to die or you're going to end up in jail. And we have to remind these young people that they own their narrative and actually everyone, no matter what context they're in, has had some success in their life, has had some achievement in their life, and we look at these instances with young people and say, how did you achieve that success in your life? Was there a team around you who helped you? What are your code of ethics?
And I've met, you know, Sicario, a hitman I say but he's a child in Mexico City who just wanted to go home. And I met him on the streets. This is about six months ago. And he just talked about wanting to go home and have a childhood. I think the point of all that is how do we work with these young people to bring them back into society, these very marginalized, very damaged young people.
So we start with football, with soccer that it's really a metaphor for life as well. There's a therapy called Team of Life which comes out of The Dulwich Center in Australia, and that's about looking at your football team around you. What's your goal? Who are the people in your life who'd defend you? Who are the midfielders who defend you but also help you move forward? Who are the strikers who help you achieve your goal? They might write a letter to get you into a college or into a job. Who's your coach?
Now, I might say my father was the person who's taught me the most. For a street kid, they're likely not going to say a parent. It might be someone who's on the streets for them. But you start to look at the structure that they have and say how can we achieve goals away from the risk, away from the streets with the Team of Life around you. And that's through an analogy. A lot of these kids won't have been through education but they understand football and they understand that there's a team around every goal. I don't think we're, by nature, individualistic; we are, by nature, communal and we want to achieve our goals but when we achieve our goals as part of a team, that's very, very powerful and that reaffirms our value.
Richard Janes Commentary: Positive psychology has always emphasized the personal well-being benefits of social relationship and connectedness to others. In 2006 the American Psychological Association published a study that found that groups of 3, 4 or 5 perform better on complex problem-solving than the best of the equivalent number of individuals. And that's no surprise, right? As evolutionary speaking, we were meant to be operating as teams. From the women forming groups to protect themselves, cooperate on tasks and rearing children through to the alpha male would never be seen walking alone without his followers. Once you are in a team, you are stronger.
But in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro and Mexico City where Joe started his work, the biggest tribes, the most powerful tribes are the drug cartels. Through the sports creative, Joe and his team offer an alternative experience in an environment where alternatives are very hard to come by.
Joe Hewitt: When young people are involved in a program like this that has a clear methodology, that has different pillars whether it'd be conflict resolution, gender equity, values, leadership, teamwork, when you have young people involved in a program like that over a long period of time, the success rates are very, very high because it gives them a sense of value. It also gives them hope. Through it they start to look at these are my goals in life, how do I achieve them, how do I build the team around me, what do I need from others in order to achieve them. Just that belief in these young people gives them the feeling that they can achieve, so it's extremely high.
Now, the lure of making quick money, of having a pair of sneakers, of having a motorbike, and then maybe you get a girlfriend because you got the cool clothes, something like that is also very, very strong. But at least children, if they have the option, they can choose the better path and when we work with these young people we immediately look at what are your values, what are your code of ethics because everyone has a code of ethics.
Now, you know, kids on the street in another city, they may absolutely hate local authorities or anyone in society in general but actually amongst their group they feel safe and they will do whatever they have to do to defend their group. Now that's a place to start. And why would they trust society if society has spat them out? So we start to say okay, how can we build this structure, reintroduce the theory of a society that cares for these children that supports them, that helps them reach their full potential. And that's very powerful for a young person when you see that trust blossom and they go from being completely marginalized and on the outskirts of society to thinking "Actually, maybe I can go to college," or "Maybe when I'm 16 I can get a job," or "I could go into a shelter and I don't have to live on the streets." That's very powerful to see. So I find sport is a wonderful way to engage young people and especially football.
Down in Mexico City the outreach team there would go out onto the streets and will start with a soccer game. Two rules: No drugs, positive attitude – and you can play. And actually what they're doing these young children are away from sniffing glue or ethanol for just two hours and that's the start. Now the end of that process is trying to get them into a shelter or, where viable, reintegrated with their families where it's safe. But first and foremost, just step away from the drugs and just play. Now that's a wonderful first bridge. And there's something incredible about soccer that when you just put a ball down, you forget that these are street children, you forget that these are seen as a threat to society and you just see them playing.
I was in Mexico City with three board members maybe six months ago. We went out 9 AM to Revolution Square, this is in the middle of the city and there were children sleeping and the social educators woke the children up and said "Okay, let's go and have a game of football." And there was a 19-year-old young woman there who came to play football and she had a six-month-old baby who had been asleep with her on the street. She said "I named him after Toy Story. His name is Andy." So one of the social educators took Andy and said, "I'll look after him, you play."
And the transformation in this young woman's face when she started playing football, this a young woman who's had to survive on the streets, who's had a terrible childhood and she just started to play football. You could see the relaxation, the joy, the play on her face.
Richard Janes Commentary: You could ask millions of children and teenagers from around the world what would be your dream job and they would respond "playing football". And here Joe is building a career where he gets to play football, embrace that enormous passion that he's held since he was a child and make a meaningful impact on the lives of others.
For so many of us we held a passion in our youth that was shut down as foolish to pursue or unrealistic, as a pipe dream that should perhaps be pursued as a hobby and on the side, but only once we've done our real work of schooling or building a respectable career.
But after his experience with Pinda in South Africa, Joe knew he could make a difference and he looked for every opportunity to help. One such opportunity was with Street Child United and the first ever Street Child World Cup in 2010.
Joe Hewitt: The beautiful game of football, of soccer should be for everyone. So the Street Child World Cup was to give these young people a platform and say "actually football is for you, you are welcome, you get to play." And it was a way of again building a bridge to society who had just dismissed these children and saying when we see them as children, when we see them playing, we see them as humans and as children. That was very powerful. So I heard about the concept and I got involved as a consultant and I then went for a full-time job after that and was with them until very recently.
And so the first one was 8 countries, so 80 children from different countries around the world. And it was just a very, very powerful event, you know, the feedback from the children who participated and there's a conference alongside it was that they were seen differently and it gave them a very powerful platform. So from there it grew. In 2014, in Brazil, we had 230 girls and boys from around the world, so it grew considerably to Brazil in 2014.
So Street Child United partners with NGOs across the world. So these aren't kids who are literally living on the streets at that point. They are kids who have come off the streets. They're in shelter, they're in education. They're the examples to other children. They're the young ambassadors that actually they have experienced street life living or working on the streets is the definition. But now they're away from that. So they're a wonderful example and also they have to be at a point in their personal development program and psychologically where they cannot be negatively affected by going to another country for 10 days when they may never have traveled abroad before. So it's about working very closely with the partner organization to understand who's most appropriate for this incredible experience.
Richard Janes Commentary: But it was four years later working as the head of America for the organization behind the 2014 Rio Street Child World Cup that Joe saw his next opportunity – an opportunity that most people would never be exposed to.
Joe Hewitt: When you go to Rio, you come out of the airport, you go to the beach. There's the Copacanaba or Ipanema. You don't go to the complex or the Penhas, a no-go zone. You could not go in there without the community. But I was introduced to the community by one little Dutch character who had worked there for many years and therefore I got to know the community. In those communities there are guns everywhere and this is a socially excluded area, so the drug traffickers are in charge and drug trafficking is the main business. This is why we're trying to do the work, is to get the young people not to pick up the gun but to go another route. In order to build a soccer field in 2015, we had to sit down with the drug traffickers and it's pretty scary sitting down with folks with an AK-47 and a clocked pistol who just sat there at the table and you're asking for permission to work there.
Now, they were extremely welcoming to us because we were working with their brothers and sisters and they know how hard their life is and they know we're not there to make any profit, to take advantage, to interrupt their trade. Nothing to do with that. We're working with the kids, with their brothers and sisters and trying to show them a better way. So we got their full support. On the flipside, we had the full support of the police. Now this is a war. This is a war between the traffickers and the police, but we were welcomed by both sides. I was never targeted but I was around a lot of shootings and the spot where the football field, the soccer field is was in disrepair. They were using it as a place for trash. It was horrible but the kids were still playing there or playing on the streets and this is a very dangerous area.
So we believe children should have a safe space to play and we called it a safe space. It's on the shoulder of the community which means it's not directly in line of fire of any of the main streets where there's often shootouts and so forth. So it's up against the wall. It's by no means a safe part of the world as we would think it but for these children, they're living in that community and at least it gives them a space and we said no guns. So for the police, for the traffickers, whoever's in charge that day. No guns on the field and it was a place for the children.
Richard Janes: So how did the police react to the idea of no guns as well?
Joe Hewitt: Well, the police, if there's an operation they're coming through, they were very open to what we were doing, says this is what the community needs but if there's an operation, there's an operation. But we asked that they not patrol through the field, they go around the field so that the children just have the space to themselves.
Richard Janes: Were there kids who just didn't want help?
Joe Hewitt: Yes, there are. I remember we did a soccer tournament in an area called the Atalho in Flamengo in Rio and we got our soccer team from the community to come down and play in this event. And it was an event for street kids. And while they allowed as many of the kids who were still living on the streets rather than being in a shelter or a project to participate, and many of these children were high on crack, and that's a very complex situation to be in. And we could sense it so we decided to get our young people out.
At that point we could hear some of the street kids say that they were going to rob me because I'm the obvious foreigner and I'm the obvious gringo in the group, so we could hear them say "we're going to rob the gringo". And the girls, it was our girls team from the community who folded their arms and stood around me in a circle and protected me. And, you know, the street kids who were there were no joke. It could have been a very difficult situation but they stood around and said that's not going to happen.
Through my work I've met some incredible young people and seen some lives change and that's very powerful, but I've also seen young people who life hasn't changed. Go back to the story of Pinda who unfortunately lost his life far too early a stage and I've met many young people who have unfortunately gone back to drugs, back to the streets or have died. And that's a great challenge in processing that. But at the same time, those inspirational stories that keep me going. And I think you have to talk about these things. Storing it up is not a very clever idea. So it's important to talk about it to people and I can talk about it to Lisa, my wife.
But it's certainly a mental challenge in things I've seen and in Rio I witnessed a lot of violence. Rio is a wonderful, wonderful city with incredible people but in a moment, violence can erupt especially in the communities in the favelas. I was around a lot of violence there and the impact for me as a foreigner, I was able to go back to the wealthier side of town once I had finished work, but for the children living in that community is what they learned to live with. And that's a huge challenge and I guess that inspires me to keep going and keep the work, supporting them because they deserve better.
Richard Janes Commentary: "They deserve better." When you are able to inject a bigger purpose into your life, you will stop at nothing to achieve it. The stakes become that much greater and in Joe's case, he's living a life surrounded by his passion of football all the while speaking to the bigger purpose, and it was the calling of this bigger purpose that led him just a few short months ago to leave the employment of the charities he had been working with to launch his own nonprofit, The Sports Creative.
Now for many of us who have launched our own business, the stakes feel enormous. We fail, we lose all that blood, sweat and tears that we put in. We lose the money that perhaps we or investors have put on the table. But when the going gets tough which it always will do, is that enough to have us persevere, to hold on to no matter what.
With Joe, he already has boots on the ground in Mexico City, in Rio de Janeiro, and is on the cusp of launching his first US project. Money is tight and the stakes are high not just for him and the kids he serves, but also for his team.
Joe Hewitt: I've just started The Sports Creative. We create sport programs and partnerships for youth organizations which is the first organization I've started and we're brand new. We're working in Mexico City in Rio and we're just about to agree our first US project. So we work in three places. We employ three young people from the community, from the favela in Rio de Janeiro. We employed a brilliant young woman down in Rio de Janeiro called Jessica. She was trafficking drugs and weapons. She started by transporting drugs from favela to favela, community to community, then city to city, so Rio to Sao Paulo and across borders in the end. So that was a very dangerous life. She wanted to leave that life but she was getting deeper and deeper into it to the point where she was asked to kill someone which she said she couldn't do.
So at this point she met this youth worker, this Dutch youth worker and he said, "I want you to come and be a coach because we're going to teach soccer to the kids around here." That changed her life and she now works for us and is an incredible inspiration to the children of the community. They know what she's been through, they know she's been at the hard end of it. We're really proud to support her and she's just a brilliant youth worker. So, stories like that, the life expectancy for young people who are in the drug trafficking business for instance is very low, but she followed a passion for football and she was supported to follow that passion.
And we employed one brilliant young woman in Mexico City, Jessica Villasenor. She grew up in East LA. She had gang members killed on her front lawn. A very, very tough area she grew up. Her brother went to the streets at 15, got into drugs, got into jail. Jessica followed the soccer path. She ended up having trials for the US Women's National Team. And she didn't get in but she's still a fantastic player and she's followed the soccer path. She's doing her PhD in sociology at the University of Chicago and she's working for us. And her talent as a youth worker mixed with her intellectual, academic background is just a very, very powerful force for supporting young people. So when I say we got to employ people and keep them funded, we're funding some incredible people and I always talked about Jessica in Rio. So there's two Jessica's; one in Mexico City, one in Rio, both of them incredibly inspiring stories and brilliant youth workers.
And then there's me and that's it at the moment. So very, very small and it's about funding the salaries of those working with the young people and then also getting sponsorship deals like sports equipment be it goals, footballs, jerseys, that kind of thing. But those are the heroes. The people on the front line who go out in very, very dangerous circumstances and say to a child "you're of value, you are valued" and they build up that trust over time. They are at risk in that reaching out especially when children are on drugs on the streets. However, you see the trust that these people build and they're incredible figures. And again, I could be sat at a desk doing a job in the city of London or wherever and I would never get to experience or see something like this and see these heroes who are on the front lines working with these kids and building that first moment of trust. And if we can help them with soccer, with sport, then a live my job.
Richard Janes: What's your biggest challenge at the moment?
Joe Hewitt: We are living month to month on keeping The Sports Creative going. We can afford it this month but not next month and that's where we are. We're looking at costs around $9,000 per month at the moment to operate and to run our programs. Part of that, we are spending on some support with our offering to the sponsorship world so we're getting some support in achieving corporate partnerships, for instance. But most of that money is spent on salaries and going to the front line.
Richard Janes: Is there any moment where you think "This is too tough. I should throw in the towel"?
Joe Hewitt: I'll never throw in the towel. Whether I need to take on other consultancy work and have other income streams for sure, but I'll never give up on what we're doing because what we're doing is very, very powerful and we're going to change a lot of lives. I will make sure that we pay the bills best off but I didn't get a full salary last month because first, we pay the employees and we pay for the programs and then see if I can get a salary out of it. And it may come to the point where I have to get other work and do this part of the week. It really needs my full-time attention so I'm determined not to let that happen but that's the reality I will fall on my sword first. It's passion from my heart, so yes, it's scary but it's also extremely exciting.
And if we built something and I couldn't see the impact, I would not do it but I can see the impact. There's passion, there's purpose, but there's also responsibility and when you employ people, there's a responsibility. We have responsibilities to our family. What I've done puts a lot of pressure on my relationship for Lisa and I and this is something we very openly speak about because it's a reality and we should be honest or I hope as a society we're more honest about the pressures in life and sometimes we put these images out there of ourselves that everything's perfect. But doing something like this is a sacrifice and it's a sacrifice for your family as well. And you got to make sure that you've got their full support and that your strategy is there to meet your passion.
Passion, to me, is about not being alive but feeling alive. I am alive and I am grateful for that but to feel alive, to get up in the morning and just take a deep breath and think "Okay, let's go to work" and feel very passionate about that and to build a soccer field and then see the faces of these kids when they're playing soccer and playing safely and developing safely, I mean, I've been fortunate enough, struggles and all to follow my passion. I'm very grateful for that.
Everyone has a passion and it can be completely different, but I think we have to try and stop our brains a little while of always looking at what is next and saying "Okay, what do I really feel passionate there about?" And that, whether it's through meditation, whether it's through a workshop, it's very important to stop and just to get our bearings again and say "What am I passionate about and am I following that?" And it's checking in with yourself really. It's checking in and saying "What am I most passionate about?" And I think everyone is passionate about something.
Purpose for me comes directly from the passion and I don't feel the purpose is fixed. It's something that we experience as we go along life's journey. What is clearly fixed for me is a passion in a certain area that I care greatly about the player or sport to help fund young people. Now, out of that we have goals. We have our goals with the projects we serve. So whether that's to build a field to set up a program, those are the goals for us and that's what we must achieve. But purpose will change and I think that's one of the beautiful things about life is that your purpose changes but your passion is always there.
Richard Janes Commentary: Your passion is always there. Even if deep down you've lost the ability to articulate exactly what that passion is. Now if that's you or your ability to speak your true passion is a little murky or unconvoluted, or perhaps now's the time in Joe's words to stop your brain from thinking about what's next and start thinking about what really fills your heart. What brings a smile to your face that you would love given the chance to be spending all your time exploring? Now once you have that clarity, the next step, the very next step is to give yourself the chance because nobody is going to do that for you, nobody took Joe by the hand to launch his charity and nobody mapped out his roadmap and said "Hey Joe, follow this and you'll be a success." It's up to you just as Joe has done to give yourself the chance. And with that said, if you're interested in giving Joe's organization a better chance today than it had yesterday, you can check him out at www.thesportscreative.com.
Richard Janes: Thank you so much for joining us on the podcast today. It's been an absolute pleasure hearing your story and I so look forward to seeing the journey that these kids that you're helping are going through, through your own storytelling.
Joe Hewitt: Thank you, Richard.
PODCAST HOST: Richard Janes
Richard Janes is an Emmy winning personal brand expert with a passion for storytelling. His unique approach to personal branding has launched, revived, and catapulted the careers of many actors, athletes, musicians, television hosts, executives, and entrepreneurs.
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