Centre Notifies Merger Of 3 Municipal Corporations In Delhi Into 1
The government will also appoint a special officer, to discharge the functions of the corporation
Mumbai: The Government of India on Tuesday, 19 April, notified the Delhi Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Act 2022 merging Delhi’s East, South, and North Delhi Municipal Corporations into one – to be called the Municipal Corporation of Delhi.
The government will also appoint a special officer, to discharge the functions of the corporation.
This comes two weeks after Rajya Sabha passed the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (Amendment) Bill 2022 on April 5. Union Home Minister Amit Shah had told the Upper House that the Delhi government was treating the three MCDs step-motherly.
The East Delhi Municipal Corporation (MCD) was bifurcated in 2012, creating the North, South and East Delhi Municipal Corporations.
Shah had said, “When the municipal body was divided into three parts, the objective must have been good: to provide better services to the residents. But it has yielded no results.”
He had claimed that there was no uniformity in the policies adopted by the three municipal bodies and that their economic resources and responsibilities were not properly assessed.
The new MCD act comes ahead of the polls for Delhi’s civic body.
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