Delhi Mayor Shelly Oberoi on Friday directed Municipal Secretary Siva Prasad KV to provoke the election course of for the Standing Committee. The election has been pending for over one and a half years.
The route follows the Supreme Courtroom’s August 5 ruling, which underlined that the Lieutenant Governor (L-G) of Delhi may nominate MCD (Municipal Company of Delhi) aldermen with out consulting the Delhi authorities.
In her directive, Oberoi acknowledged, “You are actually directed to start out the election course of for the election of chairmen, deputy chairmen of the Wards Committee, and one member to the Standing Committee from the Wards Committee…”
In every of MCD’s 12 zones, all elected councillors are a part of a ward committee. Every ward committee is led by a md who acts as a “mini-mayor” on the zonal stage.
“The chairman of the ward committee usually holds weekly conferences, exercising related powers to these of the mayor in MCD’s month-to-month home meeting the place all zonal officers are current,” an MCD official mentioned.
Congress councillor Ariba Khan from Abul Fazal Enclave mentioned, “On the zonal stage, we will increase points, pose questions, and get direct responses from zonal officers. With out the ward committee, we needed to run to the deputy commissioner for each small job with no assure that these duties can be accomplished.”
Chief of Opposition Raja Iqbal Singh mentioned, “The ward committee is a constitutional physique. The chairperson guides the conferences, and each resolution made is binding. The yearly budget additionally requires suggestions from the ward committee. Councillors will profit from this as a result of all zonal-level officers are current. If a councillor raises a problem, reminiscent of rubbish of their space, the accountable officer have to be current and accountable. If an officer is absent, they have to present an evidence within the subsequent assembly. Till now, officers weren’t being held accountable because of the lack of a ward committee.”
The elections of the ward committee shall be a step in direction of the formation of the standing committee, an 18-member physique chargeable for managing the company’s funds, which has not been constituted previously 12 months. As soon as the ward committees are shaped, every zone will maintain an election to decide on one member to serve on the standing committee.
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