New Delhi (22/03/2022): The Union cabinet held a meeting on Tuesday and gave its nod to present a bill in the Parliament for the unification of the three municipal corporations in Delhi.
The Cabinet approved ‘The Delhi Municipal Corporation Amendment Act 2022’. The amendment act provides for a unified Municipal Corporation of Delhi by subsuming the existing three corporations.
According to ABP News sources, the central government will present the bill in Parliament during the ongoing Budget session 2022.
The Centre had on March 9, just ahead of a press conference of the State Election Commission (SEC) to announce the dates of the civic polls due in April, sent a communication to the State Election Commissioner S K Srivastava that it is considering to “reunify” the three civic bodies and hence not to announce the poll schedule, as mentioned in a PTI report.
If the bill is approved in the Parliament, it will unify the three MCDs — East, North, and South — ahead of the civic body polls due in April. This will help BJP, which has been ruling all three MCDs for the past 15 years to stop a buoyant AAP trying to come into power in the civic bodies.
