CITY SANITATION PLAN - Ministry of Urban Development

Stakeholders Multiple Stakeholders and
required co-ordination
Civil Society Household level
CBO’s
Resident Welfare Associations
Role to be performed
Civil society has to play a crucial role in promotion and maintenance of
sanitation situation in the city. This is a first of a kind exercise where in the
institutional arrangement civil society is added. The justified reason would be
that most of the time the responsibility of operation and maintenance of
sanitation services are left on the Nagar Nigam or any other government
agency. This attitude has to change and civil society should own the
infrastructure given by the government. The Nagar Nigam should make special
moves in this regard as to make sure that the civil society takes the
responsibility of maintaining the given infrastructure.
Apart from this, regular involvement in IEC campaign in the city and keeping
the awareness on sanitation movement in the city is of greater responsibility
of the civil society as this cannot be done by local government alone.
Educating the violators on sanitation also falls in the larger preview of the civil
society as sanitation has greater dent in behavior change.
Local NGOs Health Based, The local NGO’s have crucial task to perform as they would know the city
better than anybody within their own sector. NGO’s, apart from their routine