{"id":47,"date":"2011-06-08T07:08:25","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T07:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shelter-associates.org\/blog\/?p=47"},"modified":"2016-01-25T07:31:17","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T07:31:17","slug":"citizens-forum-launched-in-sangli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shelter-associates.org\/blog\/citizens-forum-launched-in-sangli\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizen’s Forum Launched in Sangli"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 18th November, Shelter Associates facilitated the launch of a citizen’s forum in Sangli. Earlier this year, the Government of India approved a project for the rehabilitation of 29 slums covering 3800 families (which is almost 50% of Sangli\u2019s poor) and sanctioned a special amount of Rs. 95 crores under the IHSDP (Integrated Housing and Slum Development Programme) of the JNNURM (Jawahalal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission).<\/p>\n

SA decided to facilitate a citizen’s forum in Sangli so that residents could play a more active role in the rehabilitation of Sangli slums. Often times, citizens want to contribute to their city’s development but are not quite sure how to get involved. This problem is especially acute in small cities like Sangli, which are already handicapped by lack of sufficient staff, expertise and funds. SA’s citizen’s forum remedies this problem by creating a platform through which citizens can work with the local government and NGOs to state their opinions and voice their concerns.<\/p>\n

There were several stakeholder representatives who attended the meeting and these included:
\n\u2022 Municipal corporation officers and elected members
\n\u2022 Local NGOs,
\n\u2022 Local media representatives
\n\u2022 Interested citizens
\n\u2022 Beneficiaries of the project<\/p>\n

At the end of the meeting a core committee was formed. Below is the local press coverage of this event.<\/p>\n

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On 18th November, Shelter Associates facilitated the launch of a citizen’s forum in Sangli. Earlier this year, the Government of India approved a project for the rehabilitation of 29 slums covering 3800 families (which is almost 50% of Sangli\u2019s poor) and sanctioned a special amount of Rs. 95 crores under the IHSDP (Integrated Housing and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[30,20,29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shelter-associates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shelter-associates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shelter-associates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shelter-associates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shelter-associates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/shelter-associates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50,"href":"https:\/\/shelter-associates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shelter-associates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shelter-associates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shelter-associates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}