RWAs Vs Mohalla Sabha !

We have right from the begining opposing Mohalla Sabha and state funding to Mohalla Sabha will b the root cause of corruption.

Chetan Sharma

Secy General

CONRWA

RWAs Vs Mohalla Sabha !

We the Ashok Vihar D blk Rwa agree that RWA are serving their areas non politically since long. In case Aap govt aim is only service of people RWA is the best forum.      

Suresh Gupta 
Gen Sec

RWAs Vs Mohalla Sabha !

Awaiting your opinion / comments on the very important issue RWAs Vs Mohalla Sabha ! The purpose is to spread awareness on the issue via our RWABhagidari Blog. According to Delhi Cabinet, these Sabhas will be entrusted with the task of coordinating with different government agencies to carry out "development work". Please reply to : rwabhagidari@yahoo.in

With Best regards,

B S Vohra

www.RWABhagidari.com

http://RWABhagidari.blogspot.in

RWAs Vs Mohalla Sabha !

I feel rwa have been doing a wonderful work and mohalla sabha is likely to be politically dominated by aap . 

Pankaj Agarwal

Efforts Group,

Safdarjung Enclave

New Delhi - 110029

RWAs Vs Mohalla Sabha !

Dear Vohraji,

Hats off to you for bringing to the forefront, problems of citizens of Delhi. As regards RWAs vs Mohalla Sabha, first we have to understand the difference between the two identities. If there is no difference & both are going to serve the same purpose then the old system of RWAs should be continued.

I am not against the Mohalla Sabha, but it appears to me that they are & will not be any different from the RWAs in terms of there constitution or functioning.The ultimate aim of both the systems is to provide efficient & effective services to the citizens of their respective areas.

What ever "NEW" the Govt wants to introduce can be done & achieved by the effective participation of RWAs also by way of empowering them furter. Hence I feel no need of any new system right now unless there is some serious flaw(s) with the existing system.

Yours truly,

Deepak Chadha

RWA Krishan Nagar.

RWAs Vs Mohalla Sabha !

Respected Vohra ji

Already there are multiple authority and one more is not required. Best solution is Revive Bhagidari System. Hold the Bhagidari Meeting quarterly. Ask the residents welfare association to send their grievance one Month in advance so that Concerned officer should be well prepared for the meeting. 

With regard 

Chander Mohan 

Navrachna Appartment 

east arjun Nagar 

Delhi

RWAs Vs Mohalla Sabha !

Dear Mr. Vohra ji,

On an overall assessment of all the reviews received so far, nobody wishes to have yet an another 'stooge' in the form 'Mohalla Sabha' which cannot play a vital role in redressing the grievances of the people at large, except through their respective RWAs, which all should be strengthened to get the needful done. They (the RWAs) truly represent the grievances of their respective colonies as they have always the 'first hand information' on the problems being faced by them, as the office-bearers and members of the RWAs are themselves residents of their respective areas! We must revive the 'Bhagidari' system in vogue earlier which played a very useful role to a large extent in redressing the grievances of the people!

With best regards,

TK Balu/Anand Vihar

RWAs Vs Mohalla Sabha !

It is a political motivation of a particular party, not in the welfare of RWA. More so, by appointing particular members of their own party of their own choice by paying salary. It is a professional service not the social service. These un-experience persons creating the hurdles and have no concern with the welfare and development of  RWA but are representing to  their party.

By appointing these  Mohalla Sabha  they are discouraging the interest of RWA, it is also totally in violation of law  as they are working parallel  to the RWA without any authority and election.

SONI JASWINDER

RWA BLOCK F-Ist,

MADANGIR, 

NEW DELHI-110062

RWA Vs Mohalla Sabha ....... A ROUND TYRE for a SQUARE WHEEL

Bhagidari, Municipal Ward Committee (MWC) and now Mohalla Sabha have all been Adhoc Attempts at Decentralised Inclusive Development of the City ....... all three fostering an Advocacy cum Grievance Redresal System, that RWAs had anyway been performing since the early sixties.

YES, there has been a long standing demand to bring RWAs into a Constitutionally Binding Fold.......  making it mandatory for all residents to pay subscriptions and prohibit operation of more than one RWA in a given boundary, with each RWA having a minimum number of households as members etc.

This way RWAs would have become bound by law to occupy office in a legitimate, transparent and orderly fashion. The constitution of RWAs should make it binding on them to conduct business in a well laid out procedure with decisions being taken in AGMs, duly Audited Annual Accounts presented and office bearers elected through secret ballot ..... with the condition that RWAs would remain Apolitical, keeping active workers of Political Parties out of the RWA fold.

While Bhagidari and MWC took all existing RWAs (Genuine & Proxy) into the fold, to give weight and legitimacy to the voice of RWA representatives ..... Mohalla Sabha makes a clear deviation from this practice. Before I dwell on the merits / demerits of this new experiment by the Kejriwal Government, let me first point out what has failed this city.

MCD …… Most Compromised Duplicity* ……. No government in the past or present has made a concerted effort to set the functioning of this Delivery Mechanism of Municipal Services in Order. Multiplicity of Authorities and an Archaic Operating System have virtually made this behemoth unsustainable.

All previous attempts to restructure MCD have been made with the ulterior motive of gaining POLITICAL STRANGLEHOLD, RATHER THAN TO ACHIEVE EFFICIENCY. Introduction of LAD Funds, Doubling of Councillors and Trifurcation of MCD ...... have all been experiments to give greater clout and accommodate more Political Workers and Babus in Positions of Power ...... adding manifold to the cost of delivery of services, Bankrupting MCD.

There is an urgent need to set Right MCD’s delivery mechanism, RWAs had for years been the eyes, ears and the voice of citizen needs ....... Bhagidari, MWC and now Mohalla Sabha have and can at best ON PAPER be organisationally more binding in holding the system more accountable ...... but WHO CAN BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE IF at the end, stands a Delivery Mechanism with a SQUARE SET OF WHEELS WITH ROUND TYRES ?????

Mohalla Sabha only attempts to RETREAD THE TYRE, BY ADDING ONE MORE LAYER to the existing structure of Citizens Voice ....... ‘RWA’ ....... which anyway have been doing a fair job of bringing to the notice citizen needs, to the concerned departments ..... AND MORE ..... like Security Gates, Health/Property Tax/Voter ID Camps, Social & Cultural Functions etc.

The failure lies elsewhere MOHALLA SABHA I fear, will fare no better than all previous experiments and will only achieve what Bhagidari did for Congress, MWC for BJP and likewise Mohalla Sabha for AAP ..... Rs. 350 Cr allocated will also go the LAD way ...... with the citizens left with crumbs.

Warm Regards,

Rajiv Kakria

Candle march !

with thanks : Live Hindustan

RWAs Vs Mohalla Sabha !

Sir, 

RWAs have experience of working selflessly for the welfare of residents with dedication proposed and these shd be enpowered instead of mohall sabhas which are the mask for AAP and ultimately work as political wing of AAP instead of complimentary these mohalla sabhas will try to destabilise the RWAs to get hold ovrt it so forcing of mohalla sabhas on elected rwas shd be pposed RWAs are apolitical resident welfare bodies and interference of any political party shd be opposed 

SK TALWAR 

RWA vice president 

D blk sector 15 

Rohini