Community Ownership and Development - Towards Sustainable Livelihoods!

A combined follow up meeting was held by the members of the irregular water supply and uncleanliness & health subcommittees on 6 th April 2018 at Pali. Seventeen members attended this meeting. The president of the irregular water supply subcommittee shared details regarding the bore wells and the cleaning of the 2 common wells. An official from the Mira Bhayander Municipal Corporation (M.B.M.C.) was sent to take a survey of the 2 wells. He clicked pictures and wrote a report on the same. The cleaning of these wells is to be completed by the end of May 2018. The follow up of the bore wells is still in process. The members of the uncleanliness & health subcommittee spoke about their door to door visits reminding the ward people to keep their houses and surroundings clean. It was decided the walls of the common places will be painted with slogans to create awareness among the people. They also discussed about having proper arrangements of dustbins in the wards, wall pain...

On 25 th October 2017, a session on information about the police and interaction with the Nagar Sevika was held at Church Hall for thirty-one balsansad children at Chowk. The Nagar Sevika  shared and explained her role and areas of work. Children happily interviewed and spoke freely with her. She was impressed at the keenness with which the many questions were asked. She advised the Balsansad to study hard and told some even had great chances of becoming a future Nagar Sevak / Sevika. The children were very excited. The second session was taken by the Police who explained to them about various weapons used by the policemen to train cops. He introduced the children to various services being provided by the police station for the fisher folks and how they could access these services. He said, a police force is a constituted body of people empowered by the state to enforce the law, protect property and limit civil disorder. Thereafter children put forward some questions, to the ...