PJ Sustainable Community Award 2010/11 is back again for the 8 years in running. This prestige community award in recognising the sustainable development efforts done by neighbourhood organisations is the first of its kind in Malaysia. The judging is based on sustainable development criteria namely the green neighbourhood, safe neighbourhood, social integration, good governance and social entrepreneurship. The Award entry is opened to all registered residents organisations, neighbourhood watch and village security and development committee in Petaling Jaya.
Closing date for submission is on 16th June 2011 with a total of RM100,000 is on the offering. On top of that, participating organisation will also be receiving RM1000 each upon evaluation done by the panel of judges.
While community groups have been given ample incentives to implement sustainable community initiatives and rightly so, many good practices have been carried out on the ground. This is evidence with the visit and learning trips by others to these neighbourhood. One wonder if this is the case, then MBPJ as the prime mover for this Award should also be awarded with similar Award amongst the local authorities. However, this is not the case as MBPJ has never accorded the Sustainable City Award. Then, the question is what went wrong? Some presume we might have so eager on asking members of the community to carry out sustainable initiatives that we ourselves have not done enough. Really, soul searching is needed.
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