Children to have a say in Cyberabad’s urban planning

CMC Commissioner G. Srijana chairing a review meeting on the activities of the Urban Community Development and Mission for Elimination of Poverty in Municipal Areas departments. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

What do children want their neighbourhoods and the city they grow up in to look like? The Cyberabad Municipal Corporation (CMC) plans to find out by making them stakeholders in urban planning, inviting them to share their concerns and suggest improvements to their surroundings.

Under its Child-Friendly CMC initiative, undertaken in collaboration with UNICEF, the corporation plans to reach out to children in government schools, youth schools, anganwadis and orphanages. The consultations will seek to understand what children need, what concerns them and what changes they would like to see in their neighbourhoods.