CONTENTS 1 chapter I: urban governance in the 21st century 6 1.1 Background: 6 1.2 The study 7 1.2.1 Aim: 10 1.2.2 Objectives 10 1.2.3 Research methodology: 10 1.3 The study region: 12 1.3.1 The National Capital Territory 13 1.3.2 NCT Delhi Demography (government of India, 2011) 15 2 Chapter II: evolution of Delhi Urban governance 18 2.1 Administrative history: Delhi 18 2.1.1 Historical backdrop: (Jain, n.d.) 18 2.1.2 Imperial Delhi: 19 2.1.3 Experimentations in administration: commencement of the constitution of India. 20 2.2 The past efforts 23 2.3 The split in the context of past experiences: 23 3 Chapter III: Delhi as the National Capital Territory 24 3.1 The Administrator 25 3.2 Delhi?s representation at the centre: 26 3.2.1 The parliamentary constituencies 26 3.2.2 Powers with the MPs: The scheme of MP - LAD 28 3.3 The active union in National capital territory - Delhi: 29 3.3.1 Agencies serving Delhi under the union: 30 3.3.2 National level agencies serving in Delhi: 39 3.4 Areas of concern 41 4 Chapter IV: Government of National Capital Territory Delhi 43 4.1 The Delhi Legislative Assembly: Delhi Vidhan Sabha 43 4.1.1 MLA-LAD: 46 4.2 The Executive: 49 4.2.1 District Administration: 49 4.2.2 Major Agents of public service delivery: under GNCTD 51 4.3 The judiciary: 66 4.4 The areas of concern 67 5 Chapter V: Municipal/local level Government 69 5.1 NDMC: New Delhi municipal council 70 5.2 DCB 72 5.3 Municipal Corporation Delhi 73 5.3.1 Evolution: a brief sketch of civic administration for Delhi. 73 5.3.2 The Monolith ? MCD Machinery 75 5.4 areas of concern relating to local governance of Delhi 122 6 Issues and observations: Delhi urban governance 124 7 Municipal reformation 2011: Delhi MCD 128 7.1 The MCD Tri-fraction 129 7.2 Suggestions in the last two decades: 131 7.2.1 Contribution of the reports to suggestions reforming the urban governance structures of Delhi: 131 7.3 Purpose of the split: 134 8 chapter VII: Need for reforms and the MCD split 136 8.1 Decentralization deficit to plus 136 8.1.1 Over centralization - Decentralization allegory: NCT 136 8.2 Filling the service Efficiency deficit: 143 8.2.1 The agency web 144 8.2.2 The New DMC Act Efforts: A Functional Deficit To Plus 152 8.3 Overlapping jurisdictional boundaries and the municipal split: 153 8.4 Tri - fraction an arithmetical plus to the set-up 161 8.5 The split - A ?Participatory deficit? recovery 161 8.5.1 Proposed ward committees: 162 8.5.2 Split model a ?Political deficit? bridge 165 8.5.3 Representation of SCs and women in local politics 166 8.5.4 The role of bhagidari and its possible merger with the split model 166 8.6 Coining political page for politics 166 8.7 Enlarge the belly of the piggy bank 169 9 chapter VIII: the tri-fraction - a mixed bag 172 9.1.1 Property tax collection potentials 172 Table 0-1 1 Ward distribution amongst the three corporations: 173