Senior Citizen Issues and Activities
Some Senior Citizens issues were brought to the attention of the Telangana State Government. 1. The State Council for the Senior Citizens is to be re-constituted with the Senior Citizens’ associations (SCA) with proper geographical representation, oldage homes, NGOs, professional bodies and GHMC’s Aasara, while ensuring at the same time that there is a due representation to women among them. It is to be renewed every 2 years. 2. The State Council is to be convened every six months without fail by the Chief Secretary or the Principal Secret…
Towards RWA Empowerment
Linking RWAs with Ward Secretariats at Kakinada A decision has been taken at the RWA interaction meeting with the Commissioner, Kakinada Municipal Corporation in A.P., Sri Swapnil Dinakar Pundkar IAS held at the Siddhardha Nagar Park that on every 4th Saturday the Ward Secretariat has to come to RWA precincts and conduct meeting and has to submit minutes to the Commissioner. The problems that can be taken care of by the secretaries of the Ward Committee have to be attended by them and they will submit the proposals for developmental wo…
How Drunk-on-power Housing Societies Flex their Muscles ?
The White Tiger and its forensic scrutiny of class is now a Hollywood film but the author of the novel, Aravind Adiga, missed a trick when he portrayed his upper middle class characters’ contempt for the poor. The real pools of pure concentrated class hatred are the middle class and nothing embodies this hatred, the desire to make the poor invisible, to airbrush them out of the landscape, than Resident Welfare Associations. The minutes of one such RWA meeting in New Delhi ruled that, in the interests of preventing noise pollution, street …
Whom do we elect? Party Nominee or People's Representative?
Political governance in our country by way of peoples’ Representatives has now transformed itself into a rule by political parties, which are never assigned any role in our constitution. If we look into the history of the political parties, these groups formed by ambitious persons, have never managed to maintain internal democracy and have always been desperately trying to capture and retain power at any cost, at least in the developing countries. A Political Class, a new caste has emerged filling the ranks of the parties, exercising power a…
Local Elections Watch
Ennikala Nigha Vedika has initiated, as usual, Election Watch activities in the Panchayat and Municipal elections that are being held in Andhra Pradesh in the months of February and March 2021. The state-level coordination is assured by Dr. Rao V.B.J. Chelikani, V.V. Rao, S. Karunakar, M. Nageswara Rao and K.V. Srinivasa Rao. The Election Watch teams in all the districts have extended maximum cooperation to the State Election Commissioner, who inspite of being a constitutional authority has not been receiving the whole-hearted cooperation t…
Senior Citizen's Mela
HelpAge India and Aasara GHMC organise Nutrition for the Elderly Awareness Session -- Health Awareness session on Nutrition Challenges for senior citizens amidst COVID 19 on 26th Feb, 2021. Resource Person:Ms. Sujatha Stephen - RD, Chief Nutritionist, Yashoda Hospitals – Malakpet. HelpAge India and Aasara-GHMC jointly organised Health Awareness session on Covid-19 Vaccination for senior citizens on 2nd March, 2021. Guest Speakers:1. Dr. Ravi Raju, senior medical Officer, COVID Nodal Officer and ex. President Indian Medical Association.2. D…
CoRWA News
Gaurav Human Excellence Award to JR Nagar RWA, Visakhapatnam Jagannadharaju Nagar RWA, Visakhapatnam, was selected for the Gaurav Human Excellence Award for the year 2020-2021 by GVMC Visakhapatnam for its remarkable services in the field of rainwater harvesting, community composting and greenery development. The Award was given on Friday, 12th February, 2021, at a function held in Gurajada Kalakshetram, Siripuram. It was attended by Hon’ble Minister of Home, Sri Botsa Satyanarayana and Hon’ble Minister of Tourism, Sri Avanthi Srinivasa Rao…
U-FERWAS Proposals for Draft GHMC Bill
Part 1 I. Objective: Firstly, the existing Act should be amended so as to reflect further devolution of functions, functionaries and funds to the urban local self-governing bodies, as envisaged in the 74 th Constitutional Amendment, which is not yet fully implemented. Secondly, it is to provide more avenues for increased direct participation of the urban citizens in their area governance, so as to reflect their human and social capital. 1). If the Commissioner, GHMC is endowed all the devolution envisage…
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