Community Ownership and Development - Towards Sustainable Livelihoods!

The CCO and subcommittee of the cleanliness issue organized a rally on the 20 th April 2018 at the 3 zones of Manthanpada, Manori attended by 15 people. The participation from the local women in the campaign was seen as they took broomsticks and swept the roads. The BMC provided broom sticks, a garbage carrier and sufficient staff for collecting the garbage. The core committee members also made the people aware of segregating waste in the dust bin. The villagers interacted with the head of Solid Waste Department and the Cleanliness Supervisor. One of the zones from the village was extremely filthy as garbage was not thrown in dustbins. BMC found it difficult to pick up the garbage regularly due to the long distance between Malad and Manori and as it consumed lots of time. Certain measures like follow ups with the BMC took place. People have demanded regular or at least twice/ thrice a week a garbage-picker vehicle or a mini compactor on daily basis which will pick up the garbag...

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...