Ex-IAS officer to help in MCD trifurcation

Putting its plan to restructure the MCD on fast track, the Delhi government has appointed a retired IAS officer to help the five-member committee to prepare its report.

Putting its plan to restructure the MCD on fast track, the Delhi government has appointed a retired IAS officer to help the five-member committee to prepare its report.

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Sources said that the government has sought the services of K Dharmarajan, a 1966-batch UT cadre officer, to assist the Delhi finance minister Ashok Walia-led committee in understanding the reports submitted on restructuring and trifurcating the MCD in the past decade and prepare a final proposal.

Sources said that Dharmarajan has a deep understanding of the MCD. Based on a report submitted by the Dharmarajan Committee in 2002, MCD had managed to revolutionise its property tax collection system. “Since he (Dharmarajan) has worked on such issues earlier, he will be helpful to the committee,” Walia said.

Walia has also asked the secretary of urban development department to prepare a brief of all the reports submitted on restructuring the civic body in the past and circulate it among the five-member committee.

Chief minister Sheila Dikshit had appointed a five-member committee with Walia, public works minister Rajkumar Chauhan, education minister Arvinder Singh and senior BJP leaders VK Malhotra and Jagdish Mukhi last Monday to restructure the MCD. The committee will go through the recommendations made by previous such committees to come up with its own proposal.