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The prisoners had written letters to the high court about their plight inside the jail.It asked police to publicise what all constitutes defacement of public property and also the punishment for the same.While the court asked the prison authorities to look into this aspect as well, Delhi government standing counsel Rahul Mehra said there was some wastage of food during the cleaning and cooking process. Hari Shankar directed the director general of prisons to ensure adequate facilities to prisoners to meet their family members and to also look into the other issues.The bench was hearing a PIL initiated by it last year after several prisoners moved the high court complaining about inhuman conditions and lack of medical and employment facilities at the Mandoli Jail here.During the hearing, the amicus also brought to the court’s attention the issue of poor air quality around the prison due to emissions from unauthorised industries and illegal burning of tyres and electronic waste by scrap dealers there.On the issue of defacement of the prison’s walls, the court issued a general direction to the Delhi Police to create awareness among people against engaging in such activity., and the EDMC was directed to take action against the scrap dealers who are burning waste there."Given the terrible state of the drainage around the Mandoli jail and garbage collected in its immediate vicinity, EDMC is directed to regularly, atleast fortnightly, clean it," the bench said.Amicus curiae Sumer Kumar Sethi said the quantity of food available to the inmates was "insufficient" and suggested putting up cameras in the kitchen area to ascertain the reason.The bench, however, said that the quality of food was good in the prison.D14.Taking note of the matter, the bench directed the DPC to carry out a survey in the area to identify the polluting units.The Mandoli complex, which has six prisons, can accommodate parking corner guard 3,776 inmates.The letters by the inmates had complained of pathetic living conditions in the jail, besides the lack of medical facilities, employment opportunities and faulty punishment procedures allegedly being implemented by the jail administration.New Delhi: One of the inmates of the Man-doli jail, who is out on furlough, on Thursday appri-sed the Delhi high court of the issues faced by the prisoners such as non-functional AC vents, imp-roperly installed mosquito nets, and the "hectic" pro-cess they go through to meet their family members. Tihar and Rohini jails have 14,469 prisoners as against the sanctioned strength of 6,250.The Delhi HC was apprised of the issues faced by the prisoners such as non-functional AC vents and the ‘hectic’ process they go through to meet their family members.The court also issued directions to the EDMC to ensure cleanliness around the jail, saying the surroundings of the prison were "in a terrible state".To decongest the Tihar Jail in west Delhi, two other jails — one at Rohini in Northwest Delhi and another at Mandoli in east Delhi, were made operational in December 2004 and October 2016 respectively.Taking note of the problems mentioned by the inmate, a bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C

We need to now think what kind of tourist we want to welcome?" Sardesai added. World over, international tourists leave when Russians come. Why cannot they stay in hotels? They come and buy plots here and keep building," Sardesai said.At a public gathering in January, Sardesai had said, "Goa should become so expensive that tourists should say that it is not worth coming to Goa.Sardesai, however, told the media that his remarks were in reaction to a bureaucrat who spoke right before him and referred to increased garbage."It’s an idea I always have had.Sardesai is part of the Goa Forward Party, which is in alliance with the BJP in the state government. Those people, how you will control (them)? Can you control them?""We could control them at one point in time. Those tourists are not top-end tourists, they are also the scum of the earth. But we jumped the Russians… We decided to put all eggs in one basket. And, now we are dependent upon the north Indians and this is what they do.Panaji: Goa Town and Country Planning Minister Vijai Sardesai lashed out at domestic tourists on Friday, calling them "scum of the earth" and alleging that "North Indians" are trying to "create a Haryana in Goa. I want to think in those directions. You need to get rich because of rich Indians coming here, and not due to poor Indians who is coming here and dirtying here. It has left an effect on me."Also, look those who come from Delhi, Haryana and Gurgaon, they have a tendency, they want to gobble everything. Here too, among foreigners, we have Russian tourists, we have put all our eggs in one basket.Sardesais vision of tourism reeks of sheer elitism, as he goes on to explain his idea of model tourism, where the rich visit Goa to benefit the states poor.The minister was addressing an audience of industrialists and experts from the tourism industry and after speaking briefly on the essentials for a smart city and garbage segregation Sardesai veered off to the quality of tourists visiting Goa. Fifty years ago, we fought a battle and refused to merge with Maharashtra. We must have high-end facilities and get high-end tourism, which benefits the sons of the soil." "Now we are fighting another kind of battle where these FSI people are coming and affecting our ethos. If you compare Goans to rest of India, we are high in per capita income, social and political consciousness, we are much superior than people who are coming in. They are not bothered about Goa.Contradicting Parrikars push to increase tourists to Goa to one crore, Sardesai said: "Today we have almost six times population of Goa coming as tourists. They want to recreate Haryana in Goa," he added."He took it a notch higher at the Biz fest as he said, "You have to orient the people correctly.""But we also have to accept when you are calling a crore and 20 lakh wheel stops for garage floor tourist into the state, you will have to give them facilities. We all need to look at all of this and I think from a regional point of view, cause that is my ideology.. It all goes back to what Sir Vivian Richards told me at a tourism meet…He said, we can have the best beaches, best architecture, best beauty, but if we don’t have a golf course, it amounts to nothing," he said.

This is not the first time Sardesai has made such distasteful comments about tourists visiting Goa. We In Goa have a certain way of living. Which tourists? The Indian tourists. There are better places," he said. People will keep coming. Tell them brand Goa sells. Are they responsible? They are not. That stayed with me."Speaking at the Goa BizFest in Bambolim, he contradicted Chief Minister Manohar Parrikars ambitious target of one crore tourists and asked the government to target foreign and upper-class Indian tourists. If you don’t give them facilities, they wouldn’t come here."The trick is to attract the rich tourist. The British have gone away