The Union government of India on 23 November 2011 approved the Delhi Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Bill 2011, thus paved the way for dividing MCD into 3 corporations and to increase the reservation of seats for women to 50 percent from the current 33 percent. MCD is Asia’s largest civic body. The Bill proposes that MCD( Municipal Corporation of Delhi) should be divided into three separate corporations — East Delhi Municipal Corporation, North Delhi Municipal Corporation, South Delhi Municipal Corporation and 50 per cent reservation for women and three different Mayors for three corporations and setting-up of Directorate of Local Bodies (DLB) which would be headed by director. As per Amendment Bill, the civic body in East Delhi will have 64 wards, while the new civic bodies in North and South Delhi will have 104 wards each. Both North and South Delhi municipality will have 26 Assembly constituencies each, while the 16 Assembly segments will be covered under the East Delhi municipality.
The municipal wards would remain 272. As per Amendment Bill, the MHA (Ministry of Home Affairs) would retain supervisory powers that include administrative issues, dissolution of MCD, appointments of Commissioners and Deputy Commissioners and amendments in the Act. At present, the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi is the administrator of the MCD. Lieutenant Governor will only have emergency powers to dissolve the agency in case of any financial or other impropriety after the bill becomes an Act.
The Delhi government had sent the proposal to Home Ministry in June 2011 seeking the approval for trifurcation of the MCD (Municipal Corporation of Delhi). The Home Ministry had in September 2011 returned the proposal to the city government asking it to furnish details on the administrative structure, distribution of funds and the proper coordination among three proposed bodies.
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