During a heated discussion on the inauguration of a road under-bridge on January 21, a male councillor of North Delhi Municipal Corporation
had threatened and thrown empty water bottles at women councillors in
the front row to hush them. The women councillors complained to
lieutenant governor Tejendra Khanna and it was decided that 10 marshals
would be deployed during meetings for their safety. However, nothing has
been done so far.

The same corporations also have less than
20% women staff at the senior level while it has close to 60 such posts.
Around 10-12 women head various departments, but there is only one
woman additional commissioner in all three corporations. They comprise
35-40 % of the total workforce .

The erstwhile MCD was never headed by a woman. Now, all three mayors are women. But this is due to reservation.

New Delhi Municipal Council has a woman, Archna Arora, as its
chairperson but there aren’t many women directors. Of the 20
departments, women are heading just three while women comprise around
30% of the total workforce.