Citing various lapses and irregularities in JNNURM works taken up by the Pune Municipal Corporation, the Nagrik Chetna Manch has demanded that all instructions and guidelines be followed to ensure success of the projects. In letters sent to Union minister of urban development Venkaiah Naidu and the state government, the citizens' group has also listed various works of the pilot BRTS project on the 16km route between Katraj and Hadapsar that are still incomplete. The works had been decided during highlevel review meetings held in 2011 and 2012. The minutes of those meetings, attended by senior officials of the urban development ministry and municipal corporation, were procured by NCM member Qaneez Sukhrani through RTI. One of the guidelines of November 2005 under JNNURM required constitution of two groups -City Volunteer Technical Corps and Technical Advisory Group -comprising experts, for ensuring citizens' participation to monitor reforms and timely implementation of the projects. While the PMC notified that the groups had been constituted in March 2012, many of its members are not even aware that they were part of groups. Prashant Inamdar, convenor of Pedestrians First, which has been working on issues concerning pedestrians, is one of the members of CVTC who is unaware of his membership. “The civic body has not published any information about formation of CVTC and not even bothered to inform those who have been nominated as its members,“ he said. “It appears that the civic body has formed CVTC in a surreptitious manner only to comply with the government directives on paper and had no intention of making it operational. The matter assumes grave significance in the situation where there are several serious issues about the JNNURM projects implemented, or being implemented by PMC,“ Inamdar added. Nagrik Chetna Manch president Maj Gen S C N Jatar (retd) is also unaware that he is a member of CVTC. There are a total of 37 technical people under nine technical fields of CVTC. The meetings were to be held once in three months. Qaneez Sukhrani, who is also the convenor of BRTS cell of Nagrik Chetna Manch, said that in the absence of a monitoring committee, several projects that have either been completed or nearing comple tion are total failures as no process flowchart was followed. Sukhrani has also demanded an inquiry into the lapses to fix responsibility. “Until the inquiry is completed, the PMC should put on hold all projects under JNNURM,“ she said. When contacted, additional municipal commissioner (special) Omprakash Bakoria, who is currently out of station, said he would soon be holding a meeting with Nagrik Chetna Manch to discuss the issue.