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CPI (M) favours MCD division in nine zones

Staff Reporter

`Single body has failed to meet requirements of a huge city'

NEW DELHI: The Delhi State Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Thursday demanded dissolution of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) into nine to 11 smaller corporations with effective powers because the single Corporation has failed to meet the requirements of the people of a huge and expanding metropolis like Delhi.

Describing the MCD as a den of corruption, State Committee secretary of CPI (M) P. M. S. Grewal said the MCD is run as a parallel Government over which the State Government has no control. While, one the one hand, all executive powers are vested with the Municipal Commissioner rendering the Councillors helpless, on the other the Councillors use the same as an alibi to escape their responsibilities, he said.

Mr. Grewal criticised the Omesh Saigal Committee Report, which was recently submitted to the Home Ministry, saying that instead of dividing MCD into smaller corporations, the Committee has suggested a three-tier set up which in undemocratic and ineffective.

"The ward committee, which is the third tier, has only been authorised to decide on how funds allocated to the Councillors are to be spent. The second tier, or the janpad committee, is merely a recommendatory body. The top tier of Mayor's Council will have an equal number of elected and nominated members which is highly undemocratic," said Mr. Grewal.

Adding further that at all the three levels, the executive powers rest with the bureaucrats, Mr. Grewal said the set up also leads to multiplicity of authorities within the corporation itself and make grievance redress even more difficult.

However, Mr. Grewal welcomed the Ashok Pradhan Committee for bringing the MCD and Delhi Development Authority under the Delhi Government. He further demanded that law and order should also be transferred to the Delhi Government giving Delhi the status of a full-fledged State and end the problems arising out of multiplicity of authority and ensure accountability.

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