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Report on reforms getting ready

Special Correspondent

It will be submitted to Veerappa Moily in September

Bangalore: The much-talked about term "administrative reforms" will become more down-to-earth at the city level when the citizens' initiative, Janaagraha, completes its report based on public consultations with all stake-holders.

The final report is expected to be presented to Chairman of the Administrative Reforms Commission M. Veerappa Moily in September after endorsement from a national symposium to be presided over by him.

The second Administrative Reforms Commission set up by the Union Government is in the process of developing reform proposals for all levels of governance in the country. Janaagraha's strategy is to prepare detailed discussion papers on all aspects emerging out of the terms of reference of the commission.

Apart from officials from the Bangalore Mahanagara Palike and select urban bodies and the Government, the consultations will be used to obtain the views of a cross section of legislators, citizens and representatives from non-governmental organisations who will be invited to participate in these deliberations.

An important aspect of the opinion-finding exercise will relate to the multiplicity of agencies and multiple institutional jurisdictions in urban administration and suggest measures to avoid overlapping of functions and reach better coordination.

The role of a municipal body as an urban service provider will be discussed and the prospects for public-private partnership or joint ventures for operation of urban facilities. Structural changes such as constitution of ward committees and the need to split large urban governments into smaller units and the regular conduct of civic elections will feature in the consultations.

As most city governments feel the need for better resources, features such as effective collection of user charges, new accounting systems, creating internal audits and a high quality monitoring of municipal spending by governments will be looked into.

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