No proposal has been sent by any of the three civic bodies for merging the trifurcated MCD into a single municipal corporation, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Wednesday. “The Government of NCT of Delhi has informed that no such proposal has been from North, South, and East Delhi Municipal Corporations,” Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Haribhai Parathibhai Chaudhary said in a written reply to a question.
The MCD was trifurcated into three bodies — North, South and East corporations in 2012. And reunification of the municipal bodies has been demanded from some quarters. The cash-strapped EDMC has been running into huge losses and trifurcation has often been attributed as one of the main causes. To a question on financial assistance, he said, “As on March 13, EDMC requires Rs1,002.79 crore and NDMC requires Rs1,388 crore to tide over their financial crunch. No request has been sent by SDMC to Government of NCT of Delhi.”
“No recommendation for financial assistance to municipal corporations has been received by the Government of Delhi. However, a reference in this regard was received from EDMC and the same was forwarded to the Delhi Government for necessary action,” he said. nThe Minister added that no committee has been constituted by any of the three corporations to go into the whole issue of unification threadbare.