RWAs under the banner of Delhi Residents Welfare Associations Joint Front has written to chief minister Sheila Dikshit claiming that the residents ward committee (RWC) project is aimed at benefiting BJP in next year's MCD polls.
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) is taking forward the process of forming ward-level committees for consultation on local-level development notwithstanding objections from some residents welfare associations.
RWAs under the banner of Delhi Residents Welfare Associations Joint Front has written to chief minister Sheila Dikshit claiming that the residents ward committee (RWC) project is aimed at benefiting the BJP in next year's MCD polls.
Dikshit has sought clarifications from MCD on the issue. However, the civic body today took the process a step further after over 1,500 applications were filed for formation of RWCs in their wards by various RWAs.
Mayor of Delhi Rajni Abbi has now initiated an orientation period for coordinators who have been appointed to facilitate the formation of RWCs in each of the 272 wards of Delhi. The coordinators have been assigned one assembly segment each and will be responsible for facilitating the formation of RWCs in the four wards that fall under the segment, officials said.
Coordinators will be provided lists of all RWAs who have filed applications which have been segmented ward-wise by the RWC management Cell in the Mayor's office.
The MCD had announced the scheme for constituting RWCs on March 10 and said it will boost public participation in civic decision-making.
As per plan, the RWCs will comprise a representative from each registered residents welfare association within a municipal ward, apart from the area junior engineer (works), sanitary inspector and section officer (horticulture). The councillors will chair the committees.
The Joint Front in its letter to Dikshit has pointed out that for the scheme, the MCD is taking the help of an RWA federation named United Residents Joint Action (URJA), "whose President Sanjay Kaul joined the BJP before the assembly elections in 2008."
"The intention and timing (of the scheme) do not appear to be noble," it said in the letter, alleging that the ruling BJP in MCD may "use the RWCs to benefit itself" in the 2012 civic elections.
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