Karachi Naib Nazim, Nasreen Jalil, has said that while constituting Citizen Community Boards (CCBs), due care be taken to ensure inclusion of such persons in the boards who could assure of providing 20 percent capital for welfare projects.
CCBs are already functioning throughout the country and these need to be activated in Karachi, she said while talking to a delegation of Decentralisation Support Programme (DSP) at her office here on Monday.
The delegation informed the Naib Nazim that a one-day training workshop is being organised here on August 5 under DSP to create awareness among people with regard to formation of Citizen Community Boards (CCBs).
She described CCBs a model of government, people and private partnership and said their establishment is the legal forum for participation of non-elected people in the local governments development and non-development activities.
Through this system the citizens can themselves prepare development projects and get them implemented with 80 percent funding to be provided by the government. Nasreen Jalil pointed out that this right of citizens has legal protection under Local Government Ordinance 2001.
She explained that 25 persons in a Union/tehsil Council, District and City Council can form a CCB and have their projects executed by raising 20 percent fund through their own resources.
On the occasion the DSP delegation informed that so far 39 CCBs have been registered in Karachi and 2,500 throughout Sindh with the highest number of 625 in Khairpur.