Democratic decentralization is key to participatory governance. Participation at the local level is institutionalized through regular elections, council hearings and perhaps, most significantly, participatory budgeting.
The 74th Constitution Amendment Act envisages enabling people to participate in development processes at ward, municipal, district and metropolitan regional level. The empirical evidence of such optimism could be realized only after the incorporation of the CAA in the existing Municipal Acts. The ward committees at the city level. through which citizens could participate and put forward their concerns.
To further the institutionalization of citizen participation urban governance at ward and neighborhood or area level, the Government in 2006 issued a model law, the Nagara Raj Bill (NRB) or Community Participation Law, which explicitly envisaged the constitution of ward committees for each ward of each municipality.
In addition, the NRB proposed to constitute Area Sabhas in each ward, areas consisting of one or more polling booths, not exceeding five. It also included some provisions regarding the constitutions and functions of these area Sabhas. In addition, the provisions for community participation fund (CPF) under the JNNURM, anticipated as a catalyst to drive community participation by creation of local assets
Under AMRUT also scheduling of projects in the Service Level Improvement Plan(SLIP) for next five years will be done in consultation with citizens.
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