PUNE
Saturday is last date to file applications
The Pune Municipal Corporation’s (PMC) participatory budget initiative has attracted 1,000 online suggestions till Friday. The many awareness workshops organised by dna and NGO Janwani have yielded good results this year. With one more day remaining to file suggestions, civic activists are expecting the figure to touch 1,100 applications.
Janwani that carried out a study of these online suggestions found that maximum applications are regarding installation of traffic signals followed by road repairs.
Activists said that citizens are actively taking part in the participatory budget scheme for the first time this year after it was launched by PMC seven years ago. Civic officials said that only 335 online suggestions were received last year.
Naim Keruwala, project consultant for Janwani said, “We’ve found that maximum entries are for setting up of traffic signals. The 1,000 suggestions include 165 for installing traffic signals, 150 for road repairs and 129 for public toilets.”
“With one more day to go, I’m sure that the number of online suggestions will cross 1,100 on Saturday. The number of suggestions through submission of forms is also likely to increase as compared to last year’s figure of 3,300 as citizen groups are filing suggestions in bulk,” he said.
All the answers you wanted
Why take part in Participatory Budget?
This process helps citizens voice their opinion and decide on how to allocate part of the municipal budget for betterment of their neighbourhood. Rs50 lakh allocated under the participatory budget for your locality are over and above the money the corporator is allocated towards development
work in your prabhag. For each prabhag, a total of Rs50 lakh has been allotted towards participatory budget with each work not exceeding Rs5 lakh.
What is the last date for submitting applications?
The last date is September 21, 2013.
How can you apply for the same?
Citizens can submit their suggestions in three ways:
* Visit your ward office,
take the participatory budget form, fill it up and submit it there
* Download the participatory budget
form from www.punecorporation.org fill it up and submit it in your ward office
* If you don’t have time for any of the above, the process is simple: Log on. Visit www.punecorporation.org and on the Home page click on ‘E application for Participatory budget 2014-15’ option and submit your suggestions online. Direct link: http:
//115.113.150.204:8080/EbudgetingProject2013/
Keep track of projects
If you want to track the works included in last year’s budget under participatory budget, you can go through Pune Municipal Corporation’s budget. It has a separate section on participatory budget and in case of any assistance, citizens can contact Janwani that has partnered with dna. They will help track the works for their respective prabhags.
On Twitter too
You can follow @dnaofpune and @PuneBudget
on Twitter for all the latest updates on participatory budget.
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