The Union Cabinet on Tuesday cleared a bill that proposes to unify the three municipal corporations in Delhi. The Delhi Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Bill, 2022 is expected to be tabled in Parliament this week.
The amendment proposes a unified Municipal Corporation of Delhi by subsuming the South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC), the North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) and the East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC). The corporation was trifurcated in 2011.
“The division of the corporation was uneven in terms of the territorial divisions and revenue generation. As a result, there is a huge gap in the resources available to the three corporations, vis–a–vis their obligation,” a government source said.