Community Ownership and Development - Towards Sustainable Livelihoods!

Villagers taking the responsibility of cleaning A list of seventeen issues was created, amongst the rest, one of the most concerning issues was the repairs of road and the pathways leading to the seashore. Fifteen CC and sub-leaders was present for the meeting. The main objective was solving the problem of the villagers. After Cleaning A survey was done and the necessary information related to the pathways of seashore in the Chowk village was collected. A corporator and a contractor visited the site to examine the pathways. A gathering at the village level also took place in order to create awareness of cleanliness at the seashore. Finally, the permission to repair eight of the pathways has been granted and the Core-committee has taken the responsibility to write an application to the corporator.  

The main objective of the program was to organize a cleanliness drives, to link National Level Cleanliness Campaign and create awareness among the people. On 30 th September 2017 the Balsansad group of children created an awareness rally in collaboration with CC & Ward sub leaders. According to the plan of action as discussed by the Cleanliness committee to organize a cleanliness drive, on 2 nd October 2017 all the 9 wards, assembled at 8.30 am in Pali with 200 villagers to begin the drive in their respected areas. The nine wards initially were dirty and filthy but soon after the drive, the place looks much neat and clean. The mindsets of people has changed positively and they now take personal initiatives to keep the areas clean. The Municipal Corporation of Mira- Bhayander has provided two Vehicles and staffs to collect the garbage. Thanks to the CC & Sub leaders of the ward for  leadership & ownership. They actively continue to monitor and remind th...

A coastal cleanup drive was setup at Uttan on the 26 th of Sep and the 29 of Sep, 2017 in Patan, Navikhadi, Mothagaon and Devtalav respectively by the CCO staff and Core Committee. 400 people from the village participated in the drive all of whom came to the seashore and cleaned their respective areas. Both men and women helped each other in difficult times during the clean up. In Devtalav it was difficult to bring the vehicle to collect the garbage but the men of Devtalav came forward and helped the women to take out the garbage.  In all the villages there was good response from the people. On the first day of the drive there wasn’t good response from the MBMC staff and the garbage which was collected by people was lying as it is on the seashore almost for three days. The situation was the same on the second day of the drive. The commissioner was contacted and all the related MBMBC head-members. With this the commissioner immediately sent the head of the cleanliness departm...