he adage ‘if the Mountain will not come to Mohammed, then Mohammed will go to the mountain’ has come true in Thiruvananthapuram, the capital city of Kerala. Development is coming to the doorstep of the people as the persons who matter failed to deliver the goods.
A Non-Government Organization by name CG3 (Connecting Governed, Governing and Governance) which made a paradigm shift in the functioning of the State’s Local Self Government Bodies by bringing together all panchayat and district panchayat members face to face with bureaucrats chose Thiruvananthapuram to highlight the pains of the capital city despite hundreds of promises and assurances made by political parties to develop the centuries old metropolis.
CG3 is no pushover like other NGOs as it has only persons who matter as the guiding spirits. K G Balakrishnan, former chief justice of India, S M Vijayanand, former chief secretary of the State who is an authority on empowering local self-government (he was the additional secretary in the ministry of rural development and has presided over the transformation of the local self-governments), Dr K P Kylasanatha Pillay, senior advocate, Supreme Court who is the master brain behind CG3 are the people who is in the forefront of the innovation.
