It will be too
idealistic and unimaginative to think that Mohalla Sabhas can replace the Municipalities and Municipal Corporations considering the fact that the Town
Planning will go haywire if The former are given powers that could undermine
the latter. The proper scenario would be that the Mohalla Committees can aid the
Big Brother. It should be like
offloading some power and responsibilities to the Sabhas. In turn it will be beneficial to Municipalities in terms of revenue generation and control.The offloading can of course lead to
increase in efficiency.
Garbage collection
and it’s disposal has become the obstreperous problem in town and cities today.
The collection and disposal has been offloaded to contracts in most of the urban
areas .This can very well be brought under preview of Mohalla Sabhas . Doorstep
collection can be handed over to the smaller units . This will help these
Sabhas to generate revenue too. Point to point collection and disposal in an
environmental manner in mass scale can be done by the larger bodies.
Much better can be
achieved in ensuring a vigil in the smaller locality if Mohalla Sabhas are
given the responsibility of guarding their domain. This aspect of a visible
security at door step is totally devoid of our system of municipalities. It can also
ease out the pressure of local Police a wee bit.
Similarly maintenance
of public amenities like parks, public toilets can be handed over to these
small units of Mohalla Sabhas. Micro projects like building of new small public amenities and by lanes can be handed over to Mohalla Sabhas. The process in
turn can mitigate red tape ism, corruption and make the working of local bodies
more efficient.
Minimal charge on
using public amenities aided with a small yearly grant from the municipal bodies
can be the main source of revenue for these sabhas. Major Budgetary allocation by the Municipalities will
be with respect in specific works.
A fourth step or 4G democracy can be experimented without much labor pain..
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