Special assembly session from today for MCD split

The government is confident of passage of the bill without any difficulty as opposition BJP has already indicated that it would not oppose trifurcating MCD although the party had been critical of the move.

Accepting a long-standing demand of chief minister Sheila Dikshit, the home ministry had last week approved a proposal of Delhi government to trifurcate MCD ahead of civic polls in April next year.

Senior officials said the government will table the bill in the House tomorrow and voting, if required, will take place on Thursday.u00a0After approval by the assembly, the Bill will be sent to President Pratibha Patil for her assent.

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.u00a0The Centre has also approved the proposal for increasing reservation of seats in the civic body to 50 per cent from the currentu00a033 per cent.