New Delhi [India], May 5 (ANI): Several teachers moved to Delhi High Court on Thursday seeking direction to East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) to pay petitioners and all other teachers their pending salaries of the last five months that is from December 2021 to April 2022.

New Delhi [India], April 19 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Tuesday issued notice on a contempt petition moved by advocate-activist Amit Sahni against North Delhi Municipal Corporation (North MCD) officials for allegedly raising the construction of the permanent structure in the shape of the Tehbazari kiosk on the pavement at Karol Bagh.

New Delhi [India], April 12 (ANI): A contempt petition has been moved in the Delhi High Court by advocate-activist Amit Sahni against North Delhi Municipal Corporation (North MCD) Officials for allegedly raising the construction of the permanent structure in the shape of the Tehbazari kiosk on the pavement at Karol Bagh.

New Delhi [India], April 5 (ANI): The meat shops in areas under East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) will remain closed on the last three days of Navratri, that is, on Saptami (seventh day), Ashtami (eighth day) and Navami (ninth day), said EDMC Mayor Shyam Sunder Aggarwal on Tuesday.

New Delhi Mar 24 PTI Standing Committee of the BJP-led EDMC on Thursday passed a resolution seeking scrapping of commissioners power to appoint officers on deputation officials saidIn the resolution passed by the panel of the East Delhi Municipal Corporation it also posited that any matter of such deputation be put forth before the EDMC House to seek its approvalStanding Committee today passed a resolution seeking scrapping of commissioners power to appoint officers on deputation officials said According to the resolution several councillors have been aggrieved allegedly due to some officers on deputation not responding to the issues raised by them The resolution will now go to the executive wing which will examine it sources said PTI KND RHL

New Delhi [India], March 9 (ANI): Delhi Election Commissioner SK Srivastava on Wednesday said it has deferred the announcement of Municipal Corporation election dates after the Central government raised a few issues that are yet to be legally examined by the Election Commission.

New Delhi [India], February 19 (ANI): The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday arrested East Delhi Municipal Corporation councillor Geeta Rawat and a private person in an alleged bribery case.

New Delhi Jan 19 PTI East Delhi Municipal Corporation has cracked the whip against such municipal school teachers who have been absent on duty for an inordinately long time including termination of services of some of them officials said on WednesdayThe action has been initiated in the last few days they saidThe EDMC in a statement on Wednesday said In a bid to streamline and improve the performance of its schools the East Delhi Municipal Corporation has started taking action against such teachers in EDMC schools who have been absent for more than five years without any satisfactory reasons for the sameAll the teachers who had been on long leave have been given notices to resume work or give valid reasons for continued leave or absence Some of the teachers had remained absent after taking leave initially it saidConsequently in some of the cases where no satisfactory replies had been received under the provisions of amended Leave Rules and DMC Regulations 1959 the services of the teachers have been terminated after following due procedure the EDMC saidIn the remaining such cases due process is in progress for termination of the services of teachers who are no more interested to join back or willfully absenting themselves officials saidHowever the corporation did not reveal the number of teachers whose services have been terminatedThis process will also help EDMC identify the actual gap in sanctioned strength of teachers and actual strengthEDMC will recruit new teachers based on the final assessment of the gap which in turn will ensure that the corporation provides better and quality education to the students in primary schools and maintain the requisite PTR pupil teacher ratio and the quality education of the children is not affected the statement saidIt is the primary responsibility of the corporation to provide quality education to the children studying in corporation schools and all efforts will be made to ensure the same officials said PTI KND RHL

New Delhi Dec 28 PTI East Delhi Mayor Shyam Sunder Aggarwal on Tuesday shared the latest details on the financial condition of the cash-strapped EDMC and alleged that the corporation is facing adverse economic conditions as the Delhi government has not released due funds Aggarwal Chairman of the EDMCs Standing Committee Beer Singh Panwar and Leader of the House Satyapal Singh presented the latest figures of the financial condition of the East Delhi Municipal Corporation in a press conference held at the corporation headquarters here Aggarwal alleged that the corporation was facing adverse economic conditions as the Delhi government has not released funds which he claimed was due to the EDMC Presenting the figures Aggarwal said In the year 2020-21 the corporation had a balance of Rs 300 cr in April 2021 As on December 27 2021 the corporation has got Rs 128628 cr as revenue In total Rs 158628 cr was with the corporation out of which we spent Rs 149476 cr on giving salaries and other items Out of the total Rs 128628 crore Delhi government has given Rs 78043 crore under the salary and plan scheme he claimed The BJP-led East Delhi Municipal Corporation on Monday had passed a resolution to condemn remarks made recently by Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia in connection with release of civic funds which it has claimed is due to the corporation from the city government The three corporations have been claiming that Delhi government owes them several crores of funds and East Delhi mayor Aggarwal a few days had marched in the streets from Nirman Vihar to Delhi Secretariat to put forth his demand PTI KND AQS AQS

New Delhi Nov 17 PTI In a first-of-its-kind initiative a drone was on Wednesday used by vector-control team of the East Delhi Municipal Corporation to spray larvicide to check the spread of dengue in the city cases of which have seen a record spike hereEast Delhi Mayor Shyam Sunder Aggarwal claimed that the EDMC was the first civic body in the national capital to deploy a drone for control of vector-borne diseaseLarvicide was sprayed on the banks of river Yamuna using a drone which can carry a container with a capacity of10-12 litre he saidWe have hired an agency for it as a pilot project and if the response is good we will deploy more drones fir vector-control One drone can cover about 3 km range the mayor saidThe move essentially is to supplement the efforts of the municipal team especially to reach to inaccessible areas like a swampy land or middke of a lake where staff cannot go to do spraying officials saidDengue cases in Delhi have seen a massive surge in November triggering a blame game between the ruling BJP in civic bodies and the AAP which leads the Delhi government in the city The number of dengue cases in Delhi this season has crossed 5270 the highest in the national capital in a year since 2015 according to a civic report released on MondayNearly 2570 fresh cases of the vector-borne disease were logged in the city in the last one week However no fresh fatality was reportedAccording to the report on vector-borne diseases a total of 5277 denguecases were recorded this year till November 13 PTI KND KJ