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Tagged: | Posted by RoshaN at 10-02-2009 00:33:57

A per the draft Act, a Ward committee is to be constituted for every ward consisting of the Corporator as the chairman and the Neighborhood Area Conveners as the members along with at most 1/3 members nominated by the corporation in consultation with the councillor. Contrary to the KMC Act 1976 where the Ward Committee members are supposed to be people having knowledge and experience in municipal administration, the draft Act does not mention what kind of people need to be nominated by the corporation. This leaves the decision open to the councillor and could be misused to fill up the Ward committee with favorable to him/her. Why should the Ward committee have nominated members at all when the other members - elected conveners of NAC - are part of it? If they need nominated members, the Act needs to mention what kind of people with what specific experience could be nominated. Also, in my opinion, the councillor in consultation with other members of Ward committee (NAC conveners) should recommend the nominated members to the corporation.

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Tagged: | Posted by Padmanabhan at 23-03-2009 19:20:12

Each ward committee should have citizens, BMP, Police and Local MLA. the BMP, Police and the Local MLAs, instead of sitting in their offices, should take a walk at least a couple of days in a week in their respective areas to identify potential problems and give immediate solutions. Most of the problems whether related to travel or garbage or wastage of water or electricity or violations or improper footpath or noise pollution etc. are very obvious. It is not necessary that only when someone complains they will think of taking action. Instead, the officials need to be proactive and solve the peoples' public problems. Padmanabhan

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