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MCGM – LACG Partnership 2006 : Dated – 1 April, 2006

MUNICIPAL CORPORATION OF GREATER MUMBAI

Charter for the MCGM – Local Area Citizen Group Partnership 2006

w.e.f. 1st April 2006 

    Index of Contents:

            Introduction

  1. Background
  2. Vision
  3. Definition of a Local Area Citizen Group
  4. Geographical Area of a Local Area Citizen Group
  5. Activities that a Local Area Citizen Group can undertake
  6. MCGM’s obligatory support to LACGs

6.1 General obligatory support

6.2 Support via an Agency Agreement

6.3 Support via the Nodal Officer

6.4 Support via the Chief Nodal Officer

6.5 The Apex LACG Committee

  1. Mechanism of MCGM and LACG engagement

7.1 Complaint mechanism for citizens and LACGs after June 1 2006

7.2 Meeting Schedule to resolve issues & Table 1: meeting schedule

7.3 Procedures to deal with different types of civic issues

  1. Procedure for Applying for, Registering and De-registering an LACG

8.1 Application and selection of an LACG & Table 2: Schedule for
      Receiving & Processing LACG applications

8.2 Functioning of an LACG

8.3 Cancellation of an LACG Registration

  1. Review of the Working of the LACG Partnership  

Annexure 1: Application Format for LACG registration  

Introduction

Neighbourhood communities can provide MCGM with valuable, detailed information about localities and monitor the MCGM’s plans, works and implementation to enable better delivery of civic services. Citizens as users / owners / occupiers of an area have inputs to contribute to MCGM but are currently unable to do so as the existing mechanisms of interaction are not adequate in terms of coverage and effectiveness. The MCGM – Local Area Citizen Group Partnership is designed to overcome the inadequacies of the present mechanisms of interaction with citizen groups. 

The main objective of the MCGM – Local Area Citizen Group Partnership is to create an institutional basis for a formal structure of citizen – civic interaction and participation, so as to ensure a sustainable working process that is not based on personalities or restricted to a single programme or scheme, and that can also be applied across the city with and by other Government agencies. Through such a partnership, local problems can be identified and resolved quickly, and optimal solutions can be found for various civic-related matters in that area consistent with overall policies, plans, procedures and projects for the entire city.

LACGs can also play a crucial role in the integration of community-based disaster preparedness and mitigation plans prepared by MCGM, and in the strengthening of local capacities and institutions to lessen the impact of disasters.

1. Background

The MCGM and the NGO Council [v] are actively engaged in institutionalising civil society participation in governance as per an 
MoU [z]. From this has evolved the concept of the Local Area Citizen Group, a new structure of citizen and MCGM partnership.

The concept of a Local Area Citizen Group is based on the learnings and experiences from the Advanced Locality Management (ALM) scheme, the MCGM partnership with the Dignity Foundation, the Dattak Vasti Yojana, (a community-led cleanliness programme in slums), and the Local Area Citizen Committees (LACCs), all initiated by MCGM. The idea is to have voluntary ‘citizen units’ that enables coverage of the entire city and that institutionalises a sustainable framework for MCGM – Citizen engagement.

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