Economic Control

• Ward committee must have independent revenue. Ward committees should be empowered to impose and collect taxes, after mutual discussions and deliberations, for certain matters pertaining to the ward.

• Ward committees should get independent funds for development from Municipal corporation, state and central government, besides the tax that they collect independently from their ward. 

• What type of development work and where it should be carried out would be decided by the locality’s Association. 

• Unless the completion certificate is provided by the Locality’s Association, the contractor who has carried out the work should not be paid. 

• All decisions should be taken collectively by Locality’s Association in the meetings of the Association only. The elected members of the Association and the local government’s officer’s roles are limited to implementation of the decisions. 

• If representatives of an Association or ward members do not abide by the directions given by the local Association then the local Association must have the right to recall their representatives. 

• The local Association must have the powers to summon and ask government officers, assigned to their areas, like junior engineer, principal of school, managers of ration shops, health inspectors and medical superintendent to be present in the meetings of the Association. 

• If government employees, like teachers, health officer, sanitation workers, junior engineers posted in the locality of the Association do not obey the orders or do their bidding or carry out work carelessly then the Association of that locality must have powers to stop their wages or impose a penalty. There should be no need by the Association to seek permission from any agency to impose a penalty on such erring government employees. 

• If the ration shop of a locality is not distributing ration properly to its card holders then Association of that area must have powers to cancel the license of that shop. Then the Association would be empowered to issue license to a new party in tier own locality.