A seminar under the title of "Citizen Community Boards-The Agents of Social Revolution" was held in the main secretariat of global organisation for human empowerment and rights. People from local community, non-governmental organisation officials, teachers and students attended the seminar.
The stage secretary Miss Nazia Mushtaq started the seminar with the introduction of Citizen Community Boards. She said that a CCB was a committee consisting of twenty-five persons of a union council who work together to solve problems of their community. CCB members design projects according to the community requirements, submit it to District Government and if the Local Government funds the project, it is implemented. The respective share of CCBs and the District Government in the budget of a project is 20-percent and 80-percent respectively.
The CEO of Gohar Foundation AG Chohan gave the national vision of CCBs. He said that the concept of CCBs was given in the Devolution Plan 2001 and through CCBs, Pakistan will progress at grassroots level. General Secretary of Bahawalpur Social Development Organisation Shukaib Iftikhar discussed the role of CCBs in rural areas. He said that rural areas of Pakistan were the most backward regions. They were deprived even of the basic facilities of life as education, health and water availability.
Faiza Azhar shed light on the role of CCBs in urban areas. She said that though it was considered that urban areas were the developed areas and they have all the basic facilities of life but still people of urban areas have to face great problems like sanitation, bad condition of roads etc. She further said that urban people were mostly educated and could realise the problems of their area very well.
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