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DCW conducts workshop for corporators

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI MAY 21. In an effort to educate the newly elected corporators -- especially first-timers -- the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) today conducted a `Political Empowering Workshop' at the Delhi Secretariat.

Delivering the inaugural speech, Delhi's Chief Minister, Sheila Dikshit, stressed the need for frequently conducting such workshops. She also stated that it was after election that the work of a corporator actually began and therefore they should be best equipped to deal with it.

In her welcome address to the participants, Chairperson, DCW, Anjali Rai, said that though women had won the right to vote as far back as 1950, even today women were not truly empowered politically. She referred to the 73rd and 74th Amendment that had enabled active women participation in the elections, but added that this participation was more because a certain constituency had been declared as a women's seat. "Often, a woman comes to power because her father, brother or husband cannot contest the elections as it is a women's seat. But even if this happens, once they are in power, at least, then they should know how to perform their role,'' said Ms. Rai.

It was with this aim in mind that the workshop had been planned and therefore the subjects for discussion had been carefully selected. The Municipal Commissioner, Rakesh Mehta, spoke on "Urban Local Government, its Important Committees and Departments'' while the Chairman of the Standing Committee, Ram Babu Sharma, highlighted the "corporator's business, duties and powers''. Speaking on the same topic - "Corporator's Business, Duties and Powers'' -- Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, S. Regunathan, discredited the tendency of corporators to transfer those bureaucrats who they do not get along with. "The solution is not transfers, but adjusting to each other's ideas,'' he said.

Discussions were also held on problems of concerned departments and their remedies, the official hierarchy and their co-ordination with the officials of the MCD as well as the working of the House. Adding a touch of humour to the workshop was Delhi's Finance Minister, M.S. Saathi, who spoke about "Funds Available to the Corporators and their Utilisation''.

Though organised solely for women corporators, the event also saw an impressive participation from male corporators -- more than half of the participants were male -- who considered the workshop an excellent opportunity to learn how to perform their role better.

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