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Enhancing public participation through effective

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BOX: Sub Committee System in Municipal Corporation of Siliguri (West Bengal)

Siliguri Municipal Corporation (SMC) has 47 wards and ward committees have been constituted for each of
them. SMC has also established sub-committees within the ward committees. One of the ward committee
members is made the convener of the sub-committee but other members are drawn from the general
population of the ward. For example, in ward 47 of SMC, the ward committee has been divided into seven
subcommittees for construction, conservancy, health, Sports, culture, electricity and water. Each sub
committee has 6-10 members. The sub committees looks after the day to day problems regarding the
concern functions in the ward and supervise developmental works. In other wards where the slum
population is more, beneficiary committees have been formed to represent beneficiaries of different poverty
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Annexure 1- List of Stakeholders Met

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1

Person Met

Organization

Dilip Mahajan,

Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC)

Deputy Municipal Commissioner

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Mr I P Gautam,

Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC)

Municipal Commissioner
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Prof. H. M Shivanand Swamy, Professor &

Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT),

Associate Director

Ahmedabad

Ms Gauri Kumar, Principal Secretary

Urban Development Gujarat

Ms Trupti Jain, Executive Director,

City Managers Association Gujarat

Rajendra Joshi,

Saath (NGO)

Principal Secretary

Urban Development Department, Karnataka

Mr S M Sonnad

Urban Development Department, Karnataka

Deputy Secretary
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Mrs Sapna N

City Managers Association, Karnataka (CMAK)

Director, CMAK
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Mr Pramod Goni

Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy, Bengaluru

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Harish Kumar,

CIVIC Bengaluru

Program coordinator
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Mrs Chamaraj

CIVIC Bengaluru

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Raykar. K.S,

Mysore City Corporation

Commissioner
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All Officials

Mysore City Corporation

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