The AAP Saturday promised 700 welfare association representatives of the city that the party will bring the Resident Welfare Association Act to give them legal sanctity once it returns to power in Delhi.
Former chief minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convenor Arvind Kejriwal said: "We will set up a Citizens Local Area Development Fund after giving legal sanctity to RWAs by passing an RWA Act in the state assembly."
Kejriwal announced that after being elected by the people in the long overdue assembly elections, the AAP government's priority will be to empower the RWAs by creating a Citizens Local Area Development Fund in each assembly constituency of Delhi.
He added that this fund will be equal to that of the MLA Local Area Development Fund.
He also proposed an amount of Rs.4 crore annually to allow the legally recognised RWAs to carry out their local development, repair and welfare work without any external interference once the RWA Act comes into existence.