NDMC vice chairman clarifies Jor Bagh not renamed Anupam Colony

Clarifying that Jor Bagh has not been renamed “Anupam Colony”, New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) Vice Chairman Kuljeet Singh Chahal on Saturday said it is a tag given to colonies achieving high standards of sustainable living.

The clarification came after Shiv Sena UBT leader Priyanka Chaturvedi shared a post on X suggesting that ‘flaunting rights’ had been taken away from one of Delhi’s poshest colonies, before later acknowledging that she had misunderstood the NDMC’s announcement.

Responding to Chaturvedi’s post, Chahal said the poster shared by her was “not” announcing a renaming of Jor Bagh to “Anupam Colony” but was simply declaring the locality as an official “Anupam Colony” under NDMC’s sustainability initiative.

“The name hasn’t changed. Anupam is merely a certification tag,” Chahal said, adding that the formal declaration would take place at Jor Bagh on Sunday, along with a tree-planting drive under the “Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam” campaign.

He said the “Anupam Colony” initiative is NDMC’s model project for decentralised waste management and is aimed at recognising colonies that set benchmarks in waste segregation and sustainable living.