Click to play videoMumbai: What do you do when the garbage piles up near your home, traffic jams or when the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) takes hours to respond to a sewage pipeline burst?
Civic issues are like these are found almost in every area in Mumbai today. But the citizens of Juhu have chosen to do something about the problem. The Juhu Citizen Welfare Group has decided to field their own candidate for the upcoming Municipal elections.
“We can’t take junk from the political parties. We want to tell them ‘we have had enough. We will not tolerate this’,” says a member Vote Juhu, Anil Desai.
In fact the group has already appointed 40 area sabha representatives who have been at work on civic issues for the last five years and have dealt with encroachments, beautification drives and even a sewage pipeline that had burst.
“What to do? Whom to go? In floods last year, we spent our own resources,” asks another member, Vote Juhu, Shirley Joseph Singh.
Vote Juhu is a first of its kind in the city of Mumbai where an independent will be standing up for the real cause. And the man chosen to do this job is Adolf D'souza.
"We looking at improving governance, something that is badly needed,” says D'souza.
The group aims to develop a clean, corruption free, non-political and comprehensive civic governance with total participation from the residents of the locality.
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