The Municipal Corporation of Jalandhar (MCJ) is all set to begin the citizens mass contact programme from Tuesday in which it would meet city residents and would seek their suggestions and ideas to be incorporated in the Smart City Proposal (SCP) to be submitted to the Ministry of Urban development by December 15 this year. The citizens would be asked to poll their top five areas on priority basis from the 16 selected by the MCJ to be developed under the smart city mission.
While informing this, Mayor Sunil Jyoti said that around three teams have been formed specially that would be looking after the contact programmes in ward areas.
While the team under Additional commissioner Jasbir singh has been given the charge to contact residents from ward number 1 to 20, Joint Commissioner Rajeev Verma will look after the contact programme from ward number 21 to 40. Similarly, Assistant Commissioner Gurvinder Randhawa has been asked to reach out to residents from ward number 31 to 60.
He said besides 25 educational institutes, many social welfare organizations, NGO, volunteers and resident welfare organizations have also been roped in to make this programme a huge success.
"Without the citizen's participation, we will not be able to achieve our target of getting the city included in the top 20 cities. MoUD will select the city primarily on the basis of the extent the citizen's have participated in the poll process," said Mayor.
MC Commissioner Gurpreet Singh Khehra said that the citizens would be asked to describe a 'smart' idea that they have seen or heard in some other city (anywhere in the world) or have thought of that they would like to see replicating in their own city.
He said the SCP would be a citizen-centric document. "A key part of this process is consulting the citizens. We will initiation face to face interaction with individuals, resident welfare organisations, NGOs, corporate and even media houses to understand what they want from the smart city mission," said Khehra. He also urged the city residents to post their opinions on the MoUD website mygov.in and can also see the suggestions posted by the residents of other cities. The MCJ has planned to finish the mass contact drive by October 15.
Share your ideas
Your idea could make Jalandhar win the Smart City race as MoUD will prmarily select the top 20 cities on the basis of citizen's interaction and the views expressed by them in the Smart City proposal. "Besides the financial health of the Municipal Corporations of a respective city, the MoUD will decide the top 20 cities on the basis of ideas and opinions envisioned by its residents. After all, smart city is for the betterment of the citizens only," said Verma. He said, "People whose ideas will get selected by MoUD will also get cash awards, besides getting an opportunity to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi in person."
16 Areas shortlisted by MCJ
The MCJ has so far identified around 16 areas to lay their emphasis on in the SCP. This includes affordable housing, public transport and walkability, water and sewerage services, solid waste management, uninterrupted power supply, public spaces that includes parks, playgrounds and stadiums, public service delivery through e governance, citizen's role in decision making, safety and security, street lights, disaster management, stray animals, waste management, water treatment and rain water harvesting, Street vendors management and slaughter houses.
Places for polls
You can cast your vote in any of the multiplexes, markets, malls, major parks or with your area councillors as MCJ has distributed the polling forms in the entire city. You can also cast your vote in the polling forms available at the Suvidha Kendra and Sanjh Kendras.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Rachna Khaira
Quelle/Source: The Tribune, 13.10.2015
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