Participatory Budget Submission Management System

Abstract

Participatory Budgeting means a different way to manage public money, and engage people in organizing hope. It is a democratic process in which community members directly decide how to spend part of public budget. It enables citizen to work with government to make budget decisions that affect their lives. In this regard my analysis of the Pune case study will be based Wampler's idea of voice, vote, social justice and oversight which in my opinion are the strongest pillars to assess cases of PB (Wampler, 2012). Firstly, in the case of Pune, there is no platform for deliberation and active citizen participation. The idea of budget prioritization meeting has also been suspended since 2008 and thus the participation of citizens in the budget allocation procedure has been limited by just submitting the suggestion forms. Secondly, while the citizens in each Prabhag elect their representatives; they have no power to vote for any policy decision or budget prioritization.