Wards Committees should be mandatory for each of the ward in all Municipal Corporations with a population of three lakhs or more, to comprise of persons chosen by direct election from the territorial area of the Ward. The Chairman of the Committee will be the Councillor elected from the Ward. Ward committees act as “bridge between municipal government and citizens”
Ward committees in Kerala is designed to be highly participatory, providing proximity of people to elected representatives as every electoral ward has a ward committee or ward sabha
•Ward committees have tasks that include preparing and supervising ward level development schemes, identifying beneficiaries of welfare schemes among others
•Section 43 of Kerala Municipality Act provides membership of ward committees to members of neighbourhood groups (NHGs) and resident welfare associations among others
•In Cochin Municipal Corporation ward committee members included some opening up of municipal decision-making process, ability to use knowledge of the members to enhance effectiveness and responsiveness of elected members and municipal officials and providing members with further learning of civic issues of Cochin and being able to see these issues beyond locality or ward level.
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