of Bengaluru in 2015-16. It then evolved into a city-wide annual participatory budgeting drive, under the able leadership of the Mayors and Commissioners of Bengaluru, Mangaluru and Vizag. Under MyCityMyBudget, citizens are encouraged to submit budget inputs either online or through the MyCityMyBudget Van that visits various corners of the city. The campaign entails on-ground mobilisation of citizen community groups, Resident Welfare Associations, Non-governmental organisations working across social and economic lines towards collating budget inputs from citizens. Participatory Budgeting is a democratic tool that allows citizens to decide how public money is spent. It is based on the principle that citizens best understand which civic issues affect them most and their decision helps prioritise allocation of public money. The first experiment with Participatory Budgeting was carried out in Porto Alegre in 1989. Since then, the tool has been adopted by governments and citizens across the world. Bala Janaagraha Bala Janaagraha is a practical civic education program which aims at empowering the school children of urban India with the knowledge, skills and values necessary to develop a deep sense of ownership and responsibility towards their society and neighbourhood. The program informs the students of their rights and responsibilities as citizens. It demystifies the local government, introduces the students to the relevance of the ward and stresses the need for citizen participation in local governance, thus, catalyzing change. Bala Janaagraha’s objective is to reimagine and transform Civic Learning in the country such that the youth in the country can put the learning into practice to improve the quality of life in their local communities. This is achieved through three Civic Education augmenting strands such as: Aligned Lesson Plans (A.L.P) Aligned lesson plans are comprehensive civics and science themed lesson plans created for 6th – 10th graders for NCERT and 6-8th graders for the State Board syllabus with a focus on pedagogy. The objective of the lesson plans is to transform our civic classroom into activity based, experiential lessons with practical applicability for the learners. Civic Action Plan (C.A.P) Civic Action Plan consists of seven high impact modules again created for 6th – 9th graders with components of practical active citizenship that helps to inculcate sustainability values among youth and make them equipped to live in the new world. The end of each session is followed by topic- specific project activity. During this process, children conduct water and waste audits, measure their carbon