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Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD; ISO: Dillī Nagara Nigama) is the municipal corporation that governs most of Delhi, India. The MCD is among the largest municipal bodies in the world providing civic services to a population of about 20 million citizens in the capital city Delhi. [ 1 ]
NDMC Smart City Limited is a strategic initiative by the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) to develop New Delhi into a technologically advanced and sustainable urban area. Incorporated on July 28, 2016, as a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV), it is wholly owned by NDMC and was established under the Smart Cities Mission of the Ministry of Urban ...
The local or city government is headed by the mayor. The Municipal Corporation of Delhi handles civic administration for the city, and has one mayor. [8]Heretofore the Municipal Corporation of Delhi was trifurcated into three bodies: the North Delhi Municipal Corporation, the South Delhi Municipal Corporation, and the East Delhi Municipal Corporation in 2012.
It was the 74th amendment to the Constitution of India in 1992 that brought constitutional validity to municipal or local governments. Until amendments were made in respective state municipal legislations as well, municipal authorities were organised on an ultra vires (beyond the authority) basis and the state governments were free to extend or control the functional sphere through executive ...
Delhi Town Hall at Chandni Chowk, with statue of Swami Shraddhanand in front. The Delhi Town Hall is a landmark building, at Chandni Chowk in Old Delhi.It was the seat of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) from 1866 during the British Raj till late 2009, when offices shifted to the new MCD Civic Centre on Minto Road in Central Delhi formally inaugurated in 2010.
As of 2011, the New Delhi Municipal Council area has a population of 249,998. [3] Hindi is the most widely spoken language in New Delhi and the lingua franca of the city. English is primarily used as the formal language by business and government institutes. [91]
In India, a municipal council, also known as nagar palika, nagar parishad or nagar parisad, is a self-governing Urban Local Body that administers a smaller urban areas than municipal corporations, with population of 100,000 or more. However, there are exceptions to that, as previously Nagar Palikas constituted in urban centers with populations ...
There are eleven administrative or revenue districts in Delhi, India, all of which fall under the Delhi division. [1] [2] Each of these district is headed by a District Magistrate (DM) also called Deputy Commissioner (DC), [3] [4] [5] who reports to the Divisional Commissioner who is ex-officio Director of Civil Defence, Inspector General of Stamps and Registration and Additional Chief ...