DI Project Core Committee Meeting at Uttan, 15th Feb, 2016

On the 15th February, 2016 the CSA DI Staff along with the CCO Staff executed the DI Project Core Committee Meeting at Mukti Sagar Hall, Uttan. Almost all the Core Committee members of the six CCOs i.e. a total 60 participants actively took part in the meeting. 

The meeting began with a  prayer led by the Chowk CCO Core Committee. Mr Dayanand Patil the newly appointed joint Program Coordinator for the Project took the first session on Government Schemes of the Central and State Government. He placed this in the context of the Administrative Structure of the Mira Bhayandar Muncilpal Corporation and the Greater Mumbai Municipal Corporation various offices and the officers currently in the posts who could be accessed for the schemes. Some queries were answered concerning SHG registration and the availability of bus concession for senior citizens as applicable to Mumbai Municipal Corporation. 

The next session was taken by Fr.Laslie Malaya, the Director of Mukti Sagar Prabhodan Kendra. He led the participants to understand the need to take up issues, he focussed on the serious issue of Alcoholism prevalent in all the six CCOs. He posed two questions which he asked them to discuss in groups as per their CCOs. He asked them to confirm the existence of the issue of Alcoholism and secondly what steps they would propose to address the same. After putting down their responses on the black board, he led them to focus on concrete actions like awareness building of the issue during their group meetings especially as many of the groups would be meeting frequently during the season of Lent. 

All the six CCOs committed themselves to take up the issue and conduct awareness programs through charts and street plays. 

Dayanand then led the participants to reflect on their planning of Women's Day Celebrations being planned in all the CCOs and how they could move from making it primarily a cultural celebration to being socially oriented with a theme. The theme suggested was based on the CSA suggested reflection "Women's Oppression a reported fact & reality, but never in our community?". Various kinds of means to potray this were suggested and also shared by Sr. Christle - CSA Staff from Gorai. 


The meeting ended at 1.00pm with a few observations on improving the Core Committee participation by Mr. Cletus Zuzarte from CSA Goregaon.