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About the news:
- Formally 3 civic bodies of MCD
- Now unified MCD
- Delhi Municipal Corporation (Amendment) act 2022
- objective: to ease the functions
Timeline of merger
- 30 March: bill approved in LS
- 5 April : bill approved in RS
- 18 April : President’s assent
- Before 2012, Delhi used to have a unified municipal body
What are the core changes?
- Some powers transferred to central govt.
- No. of Wards to be reduced
- No. of seats will be on the basis of city’s population
- All properties, movable and immovable, of or belonging to the erstwhile corporations shall vest in the MCD
- Rights and liabilities to be transferred
What changes mean?
- Easy administration
- No. of Wards to be reduced
- Centre will form a Delimitation Commission
- Exercise to reshuffle and reorganise the municipal staff will begin
- Better amenities and sanitation matter
Civic Bodies of Delhi
- MCD
- NDMC
- Delhi Cantonment Board
History of urban local bodies at a glance
- Ancient presence
- Modern Development
- Constitutional Provisions
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