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Mangaluru: On Tuesday November 2, Mangaluru City Corporation Commissioner Akshy Sridhar issued an order announcing the final list of members for 60 ward committees. The objections filed against the provisional list have been taken into considerations by the ward nodal officers. Based on their directions, a final list of eligible members belonging to all wards has been posted on www.mangalurucity.mrc.g.in.

Akshy Sridhar said that, “We invited applications last November and it took us nearly a year to complete the entire process. We anticipated that this process would be smoother but after we received the applications and began processing them, it took longer than planned. After this, we were not able to sit and work on this for nearly 2 to 3 months due to Covid. Once application process was done, we invited objection filed against provisional list and processing of objection also took sometime as there were around 100 objections.”

Sridhar explained that MCC had to call people up and ask as to what they have given in the writing which was either clear or without proper proof and so on. “On whomever the member form objection was written, we demanded them to provide supporting documents to support or deny their claims. That why this process took nearly two and a half months to complete and then we verified it. Once we were sure that the process was good enough that we came up with the final list,” he added.

The Karnataka Municipal Corporations (Amendment) Act (KMC) of 2011 and Rules of 2016 are applicable to municipal corporations. It is one of the mandatory reforms to be undertaken by the State Government under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) to enact a law providing for community participation in the Municipal Corporations having a population exceeding three lakhs. It requires the establishment of a three-tier structure of governance at the level of municipal council, ward committee and area sabha.

A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) was filed with Karnataka High Court, Bengaluru, by civic groups comprising lead petitioner CIVIC Bengaluru with Mangaluru Civic Group (MCG) as a co-petitioner seeking uniform and more effective guidelines for constituting Ward Committees and area sabhas state-wide. It was filed before the High Court of Karnataka, Bengaluru on September 24, 2021, by a consortium comprising civic organisations and individuals from seven of the eleven cities across Karnataka.

The PIL was filed since it was found that each Municipal Corporation in Karnataka has its own method of nominating members. There was also a delayed selection process. The Petition demanded that the KMC (Amendment) Act 2011 and BBMP Act 2020 be amended to make it the same as the Karnataka Municipalities (Amendment) Act 2020 in the matters regarding ‘institutionalising citizen participation’ in Urban Local Bodies.

Following the successful filing of a PIL by the MCG at the High Court of Karnataka in Bengaluru, MCC Commissioner Akshy Sridhar has now given effect to the PIL.

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