Now, ALMs will also look into corridors of power

The advanced locality management (ALM) is no more the closet community group it used to be. Going beyond the periphery of dealing with routine civic issues, the illegitimate baby of the municipal corporation ? as ALMs are called by critics ? are increasingly growing to make a larger mark in the corridors of power that deal with policy issues.

A case in point is the recent informative public meeting organised by the H-West Ward Citizens’ Trust and the Bombay Catholic Sabha (BCS) with ren…