Failing to acquire land for constructing its headquarters, the South Delhi Municipal Corporation has been knocking on the doors of the Delhi Government. SDMC leaders on Friday met Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and urged her to intervene and facilitate the transfer of eight acres of land in Vasant Kunj for its headquarters.
leader of the House of SDMC Subhash Arya said after trifurcation of the erstwhile MCD, only SDMC does not have a headquarters of its own and has been functioning from the Civic Centre as a tenant. "Of the three corporations, only the SDMC has no headquarters of its own. The Government should facilitate the transfer of eight acres of land from DDA for construction of the Civic Centre for SDMC," Arya said.
The SDMC has been planning to construct a multi-storey headquarters. The corporation has identified the land in Vasant Kunj and Dwarka but failed to get the land transferred from DDA.
Arya, along with other leaders of the three corporations, met Dikshit on Friday demanding the Government's assistance for various projects. The leaders requested the CM to allot land to the corporations for various projects like sanitary landfill sites, working women hostels, primary schools, cattle pond, dog sterilisation centre, and community halls among others.
She said her Government was willing to help the municipal bodies but would like to see the results.
The delegation included Standing Committee Chairmen, leader of the Houses of the three corporations and North and East Delhi Mayors.