Weeks after the North Delhi Municipal Corporation got the new boundaries of its zones cleared by the Delhi government, the civic body has decided to change the names of two of its six zones.
A proposal moved by North Delhi Mayor Preety Agarwal was cleared in the House on Wednesday.
The name of Civil Lines zone will be changed to Mukherjee Nagar zone, and the newly combined City-Sadar Paharganj zone will be renamed Chandni Chowk zone.
Shifting of wards
Ms. Agarwal said that during the reconstitution of zones, a few wards were moved around causing the need to change the names. While marking the new boundaries of the zones, the Civil Lines ward was moved to the new Keshavpuram zone.
“Since Civil Lines is no longer in the Civil Lines zone, it makes no sense to retain the name. We decided that Mukherjee Nagar can be the representative name for the zone, because it is centrally located and also because it is a tribute to politician Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee,” Ms. Agarwal said.
The name for the City-Sadar Paharganj zone was also changed after the two zones were combined for convenience.
The zone will now be called Chandni Chowk, looking at the historic importance of the ward in the Walled City, the Mayor added.
With the approval of the delimitation file, the Mukherjee Nagar zone now has 18 wards under it, while the Chandni Chowk zone has 13 wards under it.
Apart from this, Keshavpuram zone has 18 wards, Narela 16, Karol Bagh 13, and Rohini zone now has 26 wards under it.
‘Better administration’
The North Corporation has a total of 104 wards spread over these six zones. Before the redrawing, the zones were: Rohini, Civil Lines, City, Sadar-Paharganj, Narela and Karol Bagh and after the change, too, the total number of zones remains unchanged.
The corporation had to wait for around four months to get the boundaries of the new zones approved by the Delhi government, only because it was the only civic body which made changes to the boundaries and created a new zone.
“The main idea to realign the boundaries of the zones and shuffling the wards was to make administration work more convenient. There were some zones that were too big to be managed and some were too small,” said a senior municipal official.
