What is JANAAGRAHA:
- It is a truly collaborative movement, which belongs to all of us.
- It strives to bring together various citizens’ communities,
including slum dwellers, and their elected representatives to make
informed and effective decisions, which truly represent citizen’s
priorities.
- JANAAGRAHA lays stress on working ‘with’ the Corporators, extending a hand of
friendship and cooperation.
How JANAAGRAHA will go about its work:
- It will take one issue at a time.
- As a first step, JANAAGRAHA will work with various residents
associations and their corporators over the next 3 months to help them
prioritize budget allocation towards ward works in March 2002. Ward works
involves the local infrastructure for the ward i.e. roads, footpaths and
drains.
What we, the citizens, need to do:
- About 15 people from your neighbourhood need to spend just 3 hours
to fill a form and prioritize concerns in the neighbourhood, before
January 31st, 2002.
- All necessary support by way of training will be given by
JANAAGRAHA.
And then?
The
Residents Associations will be given a costing of all the works identified in a
standardized format.
All the associations under each ward should meet,
prioritize, present the collective list to their Corporator and request them to
consider the same for the forthcoming budget.
How it will
help the Corporators:
- They will get to know all the locality infrastructure needs of
their wards.
- The interactions between the Ward residents and the Corporator
will be mutually beneficial.
- They would have included some of the real needs of the people!
(please bear in mind
that including items in the budget will
be limited by the allotted funds for
Ward Works in the ward)
How will it help the City:
- We the Citizens will take ownership and get to participate in
governance.
- We will get to know our neighbourhood, and perhaps our neighbours
too.
- We will get to understand what it takes to maintain infrastructure
and hence become more responsible for its future maintenance!
Perhaps Bangalore can become a role model to showcase the positive effects of participative government!
JOIN US AND MAKE IT HAPPEN!
Contact us immediately for Orientation/Training Programmes at:
198, Nandidurg Road, Jayamahal, Bangalore – 560046
Phone: 3330668, 3542381/82