With the hanging sword of the new delimitation, this time’s corporation elections will be postponed. After the implementation of the provisions made by the Central Government in the Delhi Municipal Corporation Amendment Bill 2022, the delimitation of municipal wards will be necessary once again in Delhi. The reason for this is to reduce the number of the 272-seat corporation to a limit of 250. In this process the Commission will have to comply with the provisions of delimitation and it will take a long time.
Sources are expressing the possibility that this year will pass only to complete this process. The commission will have to reduce 22 seats to make it a maximum of 250 seats. However, it is also being claimed that a rough draft of a corporation will be prepared before the last deadline of corporation elections is completed. After this, work will be done on this crude format on the seat scope and the process of reducing the number of voters.
Experts say that in order to unite the corporation, the commission will have to prepare afresh the formula for seat reservation on the basis of scheduled caste and also for women reserved seats. Even after this the further election process can be started. The number of corporation wards in Delhi was 134 in 2007 due to the division of the corporation into three pieces. In this situation the area of many corporation wards was much larger and the number of corporation wards was increased to 272. After the merger of these corporations, the biggest challenge of the central government will be to improve the financial condition.
Corporation in debt due to bad financial condition
When the corporations were bifurcated in the year 2012, the corporations had demanded one-time financial assistance to improve their financial condition. The state government had made available this amount, but this amount was not given as a grant. In these years the corporation has not been able to make even this payment. Apart from this, more than two thousand crore loans were also given to these bodies. The liability of corporations remains on this even today. Whereas due to lack of money with the corporations, their employees had to go on strike.
These will be necessary provisions
Administrator will be appointed: If the process of corporation election is not completed on time. In that case the administrator will act in place of the elected government of the corporation. Its provision is being made in the new law. It is believed that with this provision, the central government will be able to stop the services of the corporation from being interrupted.
New law will clear the way
All rights and liabilities shall be vested in a corporation.
The law matters of separate corporations will also apply to the combined corporation.
If there is any technical problem, then the central government will issue a notification for it.