4,219 ward committee meetings held in one year despite COVID: Survey
The Hindu
Eleven wards did not meet, while 33 wards held 2 meetings per month
In the one year, between August 1, 2020, and September 4, 2021 — which included the months where Bengaluru weathered the onslaught of a second wave of the pandemic — 4,219 ward committee meetings were held across the city. Of the total 198 wards, 170 held meetings during this period.
These were some of the findings of a Ward Committee Meeting Survey conducted by Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy, the details of which were released at a workshop on Saturday.
“Over 4,000 meetings in one year is a record of sorts given Bengaluru’s two-decade-long struggle to institute ward committees,” Srinivas Alavilli, head, Civic Participation, Janaagraha, told The Hindu.
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