THRISSUR: The decentralisation plans of the local bodies could come in for a confrontation with the Navakerala Mission of the state government coordinating 41 departments, and party’s representatives need to take special care to mitigate it, CPI state secretary Kanam Rajendran has said. The state-level meeting of CPI representatives in civic bodies here on Saturday discussed in detail the issues of ‘conflicts’ as the civic bodies had lost their say in matters of these departments over decentralisation which would now be handled by the chief minister and the state government under the Navakerala Mission.
“The officials in the local bodies have the tendency to go about the planning and developmental projects as they wish and people’s representatives need to keep vigil and show complete involvement by collecting the views of the common public in shaping development plans and their implementation,” he said at the meeting. The representatives sought the party’s intervention in the issue of both Niti Aayog of Union government issuing circulars along with the state government for calling grama sabhas and implementing projects. “We are confused as we fear non-cooperation from either the Centre or the state if we follow one of them," said one of them. "It is tough to follow all the circulars of both the Ayog and the state government. The party should take up this issue.”
