Delhi Assembly will have a two-day special session beginning November 30 to pass a Bill to facilitate the trifurcation of Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), a proposal cleared by the Centre on Wednesday.
After a Cabinet meeting, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit told reporters that the meeting decided to convene a special session of the Assembly on November 30.
During the two-day session, the Bill to trifurcate the MCD, the second largest municipal corporation in the country, will be passed.
The move to split BJP-ruled MCD into three parts is aimed at ensuring better delivery of civic services and streamlining its functioning.
As per the proposal, the new civic bodies in North and South Delhi will have 104 wards each while the civic body in East Delhi will have 64 wards and a directorate of municipal services would be set up to coordinate functioning of the three new bodies.
Home Minister P Chidambaram signed the file giving approval for trifurcation of MCD on Wednesday.
The Centre has also approved the proposal for increasing reservation of seats in the civic body to 50 per cent from the current 33 per cent.
Officials said the state election commission is likely to issue notification in early February for civic polls in early April and the entire process of trifurcation will have to be completed by January.
