Thursday, February 28, 2008

Accountability in BMC.



Accountability in BMC.

BMC should be congratulated for initiating an accounting process in
all its activities (DNA,31/1/2008). All enlightened citizens and NGOs
should support this move which is long overdue and ask the local
corporators to vote for this proposal.

BMC is seeking the help of the Society for Development Studies
(SDS),which has the experience in this task as it has worked with the
World Bank and other institutions. BMC is also wants to train
university students to evaluate the performance of BMC staff. BMC
should seek the assistance of NGOs, corporate sector and senior
citizens in formulating and implementing various developmental
activities. This is the only way we can stop the under-utilization and
inadequate implementation of budgetary allocation. Every ward should
have a citizens' committee consisting of students/teachers, senior
citizens, NGOs and the corporate sector to over-see all the
developmental activities.

If this is successful, it could be adopted by other municipalilties
and even state and the central governments and its institutions. This
is true swaraj and would lead to true su-raj.

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