Delhi
Parliament passes bill to merge three Delhi BJP-run civic bodies
New Delhi/IBNS: Delhi's three municipal agencies, run by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), have been merged into one with the Rajya Sabha passing a bill to this effect.
The bill has already been cleared by the Lok Sabha and now awaits the President's approval.
The move was made to unify the three municipal corporations (MCDs), namely South, East and North, which came under stiff opposition from the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party.
The Centre has said that the move is taken to combine the three MCDs, which would ensure better operations, save costs and ensure better use of funds.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah earlier in the day accused the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Delhi of "stepmotherly treatment" towards the three civic bodies.
Speaking in Rajya Sabha during a discussion on the bill to merge the three municipal corporations, Shah said there is nothing in government records on the objectives behind trifurcating the Municipal Corporation of Delhi in 2012.
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