{"id":13513,"date":"2009-01-30T16:41:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T16:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/heroes-of-local-bodies-of-dwarka\/"},"modified":"2018-06-04T17:29:46","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T17:29:46","slug":"heroes-of-local-bodies-of-dwarka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/heroes-of-local-bodies-of-dwarka\/","title":{"rendered":"Heroes of Local Bodies of Dwarka?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Vijay K. Saluja<\/p>\n<p>Identification , Feting them &amp; Telling their stories<\/strong><\/em><br \/>Presently, our cities-colonies, markets, open spaces, traffic, transportation system, parking lots, basic services &amp; other infrastructure etc etc are in a big mess. Mess is becoming bigger, day by day. Urban local bodies are the prime public bodies, whose duty\/responsibility, is to take care of the state of our cities. But, unfortunately due to many reasons[some of these are, corruption, ineptitude, political interference, lack of motivation with the right qualified persons to join local bodies, wastage of already scarce municipal funds, non-accountability, non participation, lack of transparency, minimum scrutiny, presence of power groups resulting in inequitable resource[already scarce] allocation, due to self-interests, poor governance etc etc] , these[ULB`s] are not able to or not taking the needed actions to bring in efficiency &amp; improve matters. The result is evident-Poor quality of life in most of the areas of our cities, metros in particular &amp; non-inclusiveness, therein.<\/p>\n<p>But, despite many constraints as described above, certain persons employed in the urban local bodies are producing good results\/sticking their neck out, for optimum utilization of municipal funds.<\/p>\n<p>To identify some of them annually, by a transparent process by assessing &amp; grading their good performance, despite all odds, can be good morale-booster for them. After identification they may be feted at a public function. In the said function they can be feted in the following manner-<br \/>Giving a medal &amp; a citation<br \/>Token prize money<\/p>\n<p>After that, tell their stories at various fora &amp; through various mode of media, so that they become `Role-Models`, for others, who may emulate their initiatives\/actions. It is felt, it may\/ will motivate the other local bodies &amp; their personnels to improve their performance &amp; thus obtain better quality of life for the inhabitants of the area under their jurisdiction. To start with we can consider persons from local bodies, operating in DWARKA.<\/p>\n<p>This is one positive way[ though, there can be, as many other ways], to my mind, by which, we may be able to achieve the averred objectives of having <strong>better GOVERNANCE of DWARKA<\/strong> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vijay K. Saluja Identification , Feting them &amp; Telling their storiesPresently, our cities-colonies, markets, open spaces, traffic, transportation system, parking lots, basic services &amp; other infrastructure etc etc are in a big mess. Mess is becoming bigger, day by day. Urban local bodies are the prime public bodies, whose duty\/responsibility, is to take care of the state of our cities. But, unfortunately due to many reasons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1879],"class_list":["post-13513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-update","tag-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13513","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=13513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49088,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13513\/revisions\/49088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}