It also proposes the creation of a commissions for informed citizenship at the centre and in every state to monitor that the right to information is not violated. The law should provide for Citizen Information Centres licensed by local governments. Centralised non-planning This paper says that Article 243ZD of the constitution dealing with district planning mandates participatory regional planning initiated by panchayats and municipalities. These will be consolidated by in the district committees as draft district plans, and finally reviewed and approved by the state governments. The planning will cover infrastructure, socio-economic and environmental issues expressed in descriptive, quantitative and spatial plans.
Centralized planning has, as a consequence become unconstitutional.
The central government can issue guidelines on national concerns and the state governments can modify the draft district plans but neither can dictate what may be proposed in the plans. This paper calls for the current bureaucratized non-participatory planning of Delhi to be replaced by draft plans prepared by local governments processed through a participatory metropolitan planning committee and approved by the central government. 9 Real estate This paper outlines a self-regulatory framework for development of real estate as a responsible business. It proposes the creation of a real estate development council in each state that would monitor the real estate business and be responsible for the development of standard terminology and documents, and for issuing guidelines for disclosure, consumer deposits in escrow, licensing of dealers and other such issues. Dissemination and advocacy of sustainable concepts of governance People first is actively involved in creating public awareness of the lacunae in our governance structure that have resulted in many of the problems that our country faces today.