{"id":11976,"date":"2011-06-15T00:48:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T00:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/community-participation-in-sector-22\/"},"modified":"2018-06-04T17:22:10","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T17:22:10","slug":"community-participation-in-sector-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/community-participation-in-sector-22\/","title":{"rendered":"COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN SECTOR – 22, DWARKA"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Vijay K. Saluja <\/i><\/b>
\nSenior Fellow, Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi
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DDA park in Sector 22 Dwarka, located near Manish Mall has been declared during DDA Garden Festival-2011, the best maintained park in Dwarka. It has also been declared the 2nd best maintained park in the whole of Delhi! \n<\/div>\n
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I, live very near to this park & visit it, every morning for my morning walks. I have observed that its popularity among the residents have increased, over the time. Now every morning & evening, the park is frequented by large number of men, women, young boys & children. <\/p>\n

In the morning, senior citizens of neighbourhood who are members of an association-`Sukh Dukh ke Sathi` assemble regularly for morning walk, exercise, yoga & then chit chat. It is very heartening to observe that members of this group take very active interest in the maintenance & upkeep of the park. They co-ordinate closely with the horticulture staff of DDA & receive active cooperation from the supervisor & his team of malis. Close rapport is also maintained by them with the seniors of the supervisor. This has resulted in a very healthy work environment, responsible for better growth & upkeep of the said park. <\/p>\n

To motivate & felicitate the staff, a function was organized by Dwarka Forum in association with Senior Citizen Group when token prizes were distributed to the supervisor & his staff. It appeared, it made the staff very happy as subsequently, much more enthusiasm & regularity of the staff was noticed. This led to better care of the flower beds, grassy lawn & the flowering trees. <\/p>\n

On 5th June, the World Environment Day, the Senior Citizen Group again organized a function where tree plantation was done by the members of the Group along with the staff & senior citizens. A Painting Competition for the children of the staff was also organized., which was followed by prize distribution, refreshment & a photo session. \n<\/div>\n

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Some of the local papers carried the news along with the photographs of the function. Cost of the function came from the contribution of the Senior Citizen Group. <\/p>\n

A small but caring & thoughtful gesture & wise step of the local active senior citizens & Dwarka Forum has helped a great deal in motivating the staff of the civil & horticulture departments of DDA. <\/p>\n

The result-Better maintained Park with flowers in bloom & flowering trees is giving joy everyday to the residents\/ visitors to the park. Though there are some areas like upkeep of play equipments, shops, footpaths & clearing of dust bins which need more regular attention. But, I am sure, the initiative & drive of the Senior Citizen Group & other visitors to the park, it will be possible, to get the needful done as close rapport with the authorities now exists & bond will go stronger by the day. <\/p>\n

Residents living in other sectors of Dwarka\/ parts of Delhi can take a cue from this example of active\/ thoughtful community participation in the maintenance of civic infrastructure. For the authorities, too, this is a good example of complementary effort of the citizens, which can be replicated elsewhere, too.\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vijay K. Saluja  Senior Fellow, Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi & Ex Chief Engineer, New Delhi Municipal Council DDA park in Sector 22 Dwarka, located near Manish Mall has been declared during DDA Garden Festival-2011, the best maintained park in Dwarka. It has also been declared the 2nd best maintained park in the whole of Delhi! I, live very near to this park & visit it, every morning for my morning walks. I have observed that its popularity among the residents have increased, over the time. Now every morning & evening, the park is frequented by large number of <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,1,66],"tags":[65,1879],"class_list":["post-11976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-update","category-useful-informations","tag-member-article","tag-update","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45885,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11976\/revisions\/45885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}