Why is the budget for the meetings and research not presented to WCD for funding?
All commissioners were asked to submit their budget for the two years. Medha tai has already gone through the process and the budget supports part of her work. However, WCD has indicated shortage of funds and is not keen on the commissioners expanding their budget. Further, the public hearings and meetings are unique to Medha s work and as such not part of the budgets of other commissioners. Since she is attempting a special approach, Medha tai does not want to go back to the Commission for additional funds in these directions. She also sees the work as going beyond WCD, and as something she and her colleagues will anyway do with whatever support they can get and not depend on WCD. The question for AID is whether AID wants to be a resource that will be helpful for such work, given that no other alternative source (WCD or otherwise) is being explored except having the common people bear the costs themselves. This work is supplementary to her function as Commissioner and other commission
