To strengthen law and order in the national Capital, lt-Governor Najeeb Jung has given the nod to a proposal to create two new police districts in the city, taking their number to 13. The lieutenant-Governor has given his assent to creating two new districts -- Rohini and Shahdara -- and they are likely to be created by the end of this week.
“The outer district is huge in terms of area. It is difficult for a single DCP to monitor the crime-prone district. Though the eastern range is divided into two districts, they are quite big. So it was felt that a new district should be created,” said a senior police official. The decision was taken to ensure speedy resolution of cases and reduce the crime rate, he said. The proposal was made witnessing the increase in urban population and influx of migrants in the city. In the last one decade, the city expanded in these two bordering areas. The Pioneer had earlier reported that two new police districts would be created in the national Capital.
As per the proposal, Rohini will have three sub-divisions -Rohini, Sultanpuri and Punjabi Bagh. The district will comprise nine existing police stations and new police stations will be constructed. Rohini district will carve its jurisdiction out of Outer and West police districts. Similarly, Shahdara district to be carved out from East and North East police districts will have three sub-divisions: Shahdara, Preet Vihar and Seemapuri.
Apart from existing police stations, the new districts will be allotted 150 policemen each. One post of Deputy Commissioner of Police and one of Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police for each new district have been proposed.
The Commissioner had also planned to make one more new district Dwarka but the proposal was dropped at the last moment. In Dwarka district, 10 police stations -Dwarka North, Dwarka South Dwarka Sector 23, Palam Village, Dabri, Sagar Pur, Delhi Cant, Naraina, Inderpuri and Bindapur - were planned to incorporate but due to lack of manpower the proposal was not sent to the l-G.
In the meantime, the AAP Government is looking at decentralising the public administrative districts in order to strengthen the local governance. In a related development, the Delhi Government’s Revenue Department has set up a four-member committee headed by South District Deputy Commissioner (revenue) Niharika Rai to finalise Delhi District Administrative Bill 2010 lying unattended from last six years.
“The purpose of the Bill is for strengthening and promote the local Government system to decentralise the public administration, to provide uniform local administrative units and to secure effective and effective and lawful execution of Acts and rules,” said a committee member on the condition of anonymity.
The committee will hold meetings over the boundaries of the revenue districts and will come up with final Bill soon. “In Delhi, police and revenue districts are different and there is lot on confusion over it. The idea is to end confusion for the common people as well as equally sharing works in each districts,” said the officer.