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Community Participation is a well discussed concept in various urban sectors including water resource management. Most of the water body and catchment area conservation initiatives across India are either community led or initiatives that partly involve communities in the different stages of conservation plan. One of the typology of water body is a pond which is increasingly being recognized for the important ecosystem services as well as place making opportunity it provides to its local area. This paper is an attempt to assess willingness of a notified urban village, Kakrola, community members for the conservation of village ponds and their catchment. Community's responses were analysed based on gender, age, caste, education, occupation and income group along with their socio- cultural and socio-economic characteristics. Further the study proposes a case specific participatory framework and concludes with emphasizes on systematic thinking for higher engagement of group of individuals for meaningful participation to achieve effective conservation.