In order to streamline the residents' ward committee (RWC) scheme of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, Mayor Rajni Abbi said on Thursday that the outgoing MCD has approved an allocation of Rs.12,000 per year in its budget for every residents' welfare association (RWA) registered with RWC scheme.
The RWC scheme was introduced last year by the MCD in association with advocacy group People's Action and United Residents' Joint Action (URJA) Delhi, in order to provide residents a platform to have a say in how their neighbourhoods will be developed.
The Mayor said 2,000 RWAs signed up for the scheme and almost 80 have been made operational. “After the MCD trifurcation the RWC scheme will be independent of administrative changes at the civic body level and will remain a consultative committee between the area councillor and the RWAs of the ward as its mandate,” she said. The only “technical change”, according to Ms. Abbi, would be that RWC meeting records will be filed with the Mayor's offices of the respective areas.
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