Only then citizens will participate more actively using grievance systems and pressurise the BMC to provide better civic facilities,” Mhaske said.
He also informed that the corporators from 227 electoral wards in Mumbai had asked only 141 questions related to roads in ward committee meetings, while the maximum number of questions asked by them were about renaming of roads. “A total of 147 questions were asked on the renaming of roads,” he said.
Mhaske added that out of 227 corporators, 19 did not ask even a single question in any of the ward committee meetings held by the MCGM in 2013.
“As per the data collected by Praja Foundation, seven corporators did not ask even a single question during the entire two years since they were elected,” he added.
Founder Trustee of Praja, Nitai Mehta, said, “Year after year, renaming of roads seems to be their top agenda to tackle the civic problems in their wards.”
“Corporators need to study the civic issues in their wards and follow up regularly with the administration and demand answers. This will strengthen the functioning of ward committee meetings,” she said.
According to Mhaske, the BMC failed to answer 34 per cent point of order questions asked by the corporators.
