inaugurated in eight years such incidents put me off he said parekh said this may not be sharmas priority but he can always contact the corporator to ask questions if the corporator is a good one he will hear your problems and try to solve them he said other participants too agreed that approachability was the hallmark of a good corporator parekh said i gauge a corporator by testing him equally on five parameters education experience attitude approachability and communication skill waghmare wanted to know if parekh actually carried out such a study for all candidates for every election parekh replied yes each time i do my job as a citizen kapat said i volunteer for india against corruption which works with anna hazare and we are also trying to get people to do something like this in the election we are approaching slum dwellers and asking them to carefully weight candidates and not be swayed by money or liquor khullar said corruption does not actually affect voting patters we are all in fact party to it in some way nafde too said that she believed voting properly in the election was more important than participating in anticorruption rallies parekh however said that hazares campaign had at least drawn attention to corruption and even politicians knew people were more aware nafde added one can become relevant only if one votes which is what the slum dwellers do at every election sharma said that he would rather pay a little to get his work done conveniently moon too agreed with him however gupta rebutted that if no one paid a bribe the work would get done properly anyway the talk then turned towards the reservations for women and the new prabhag system introduced in this civic election nafde said the reservations were good since they brought more women into decision making process moon however said that most women in politics were mere proxies for their husbands gupta said reservations do help women come up anyway only a woman who can make it by herself will come out of her husbands shadow she can do it without reservation too on whether reservation for women restricted choices of a voter khullar said governance is anyway not related to caste or gender in fact complications of prabhag and various reservations may put off more voters from this process moon also said that the prabhag system would allow members to pass the buck to each other waghmare too spoke against reservations parekh took a different view he said i see it as a social experiment to improve our system why not give women a chance as for them being puppets the mentality of 2000 years cannot be changed in a stroke we have to give women time to come out of the wings of their husbands or fathers moon agreed but said the system of women being proxy for their husbands should be avoided gupta too said women could really make a difference only if