The Hindu 08.02.2011
Panel set up to reorganise MCD
The Delhi Cabinet on Monday constituted a political committee for
reorganisation of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi. The committee will
be chaired by Delhi Finance Minister A. K. Walia and comprise two
senior BJP leaders, V. K. Malhotra and Jagdish Mukhi, besides Delhi
Ministers Raj Kumar Chauhan and Arvinder Singh Lovely.
Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said the committee will go
through various reports already made on the MCD restructuring and give
its proposals. She said that with both the Congress and the BJP now
having concluded that the civic body needed to be streamlined, the ball
has been set into motion.
“We are of the opinion that the MCD needs to be divided
into at least three parts – comprising eastern, central and outer Delhi
– to ensure proper administration,” she said. Ms. Dikshit said the
panel will look into the functioning of the MCD and recommend feasible
steps to overcome problems hindering proper delivery of services by the
civic body, financial mismanagement therein and other obstacles arising
due to its huge jurisdictional area.
The committee is expected to study all recommendations of earlier committees constituted by the Union Government in this regard.
Ms. Dikshit expressed confidence that the committee will
consider all aspects in depth and come out with suitable
recommendations. In another decision, the Delhi Cabinet has also
approved the revised estimate for construction of an automated car
parking system for the Delhi High Court where parking space across six
levels for 1,550 cars is being constructed by the Delhi Metro Rail
Corporation. As per the revised estimate, a sum of Rs.182.71 crore would
be spent on the project as against the earlier estimate of Rs.125 crore
due to cost escalation and inclusion of the five year maintenance
contract.
