All that BMC has to do is to fulfil its mandate of providing civic services :
1. Cleanliness - collecting, sorting and disposing solid waste in a scientific way. Associating NGOs and local people in every ward would help in cleaning Mumbai.
2. Water supply - rain water harvesting should be compulsory for all CHS and leakage to be plugged in every possible way.No new construction to be given water connection till after the next mansoon.
3. All contracts for roads and municipal works should be included in the BMC website for the information of the people - who won the contract, duration of the project etc. Recently President Obama has appointed Earl Devaney, the former secret service agent, as the head of the stimulous monitoring board, and Devaney is setting up a website so that people and journalists can monitor how every dollar is spent." The website will unleash a million citizen IGs( inspectors-general), says Devaney. If we had such a system, what happened in Thana would not have happened at all.
4. Encourage builders like Tatas, who offer houses for Rs.4 lakhs, to have cheap housing for the poor.
5. Promote more tree planting, gardens and play-grounds.
The suggestions were sent to Karmayog.
December 26,2009.
1. Cleanliness - collecting, sorting and disposing solid waste in a scientific way. Associating NGOs and local people in every ward would help in cleaning Mumbai.
2. Water supply - rain water harvesting should be compulsory for all CHS and leakage to be plugged in every possible way.No new construction to be given water connection till after the next mansoon.
3. All contracts for roads and municipal works should be included in the BMC website for the information of the people - who won the contract, duration of the project etc. Recently President Obama has appointed Earl Devaney, the former secret service agent, as the head of the stimulous monitoring board, and Devaney is setting up a website so that people and journalists can monitor how every dollar is spent." The website will unleash a million citizen IGs( inspectors-general), says Devaney. If we had such a system, what happened in Thana would not have happened at all.
4. Encourage builders like Tatas, who offer houses for Rs.4 lakhs, to have cheap housing for the poor.
5. Promote more tree planting, gardens and play-grounds.
The suggestions were sent to Karmayog.
December 26,2009.
