Why does Delhi have no public e-toilets?

Delhi will have to wait for e-toilets as the municipal administration prioritise building and renovating primary public toilets across the state

A jhuggi behind the WHO office tells tales of civic decay: Who’s responsible?

Right behind the WHO office, an unhygienic slum mocks at the lofty ideals the international body promotes, and makes a mockery of the Delhi Master Plan, the municipal authorities’ alertness and the boasts of slum redevelopment

‘Waste-to-Art’ theme park to have statues of freedom fighters at ITO

The South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) on Thursday decided to develop Shaheedi Park at ITO to pay tribute to freedom fighters where it will install statues of 11 heroes of the ‘Freedom Movement’ under its ‘Waste-to-Art’ concept, civic officials said. These moves come ahead of civic body polls, as all the three civic bodies North, […]

SDMC to set up Engineered Sanitary Landfill Site’ for scientific garbage disposal

The South Delhi Municipal Corporation will be setting up and Engineered Sanitary Landfill Site’ at Tehkhand at an estimated cost of Rs 42.3 crore to solve the problem of garbage disposal SDMC commissioner Gyanesh Bharti said the site will become operational by March 2023. He said it will be the city’s first engineered sanitary landfill […]

SDMC to start multilevel stack parking in south Delhi’s Adhchini village

To address parking and traffic woes in south Delhi’s Adhchini, the SDMC will start a multilevel stack parking in the village by October this year, civic officials said. According to the South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) officials, the facility will solve the problem of haphazard parking on streets in the area. The capacity of the […]

SDMC Mayor ‘felt people were uneasy’ about halal/jhatka

An SDMC official says order has no logic There are approximately 1,800 restaurants in South Delhi Municipal Corporation, and all those serving meat here will now have to say if it is halal or jhatka. We spoke with the mayor of SDMC, Anamika Mithilesh who says the purpose of this decision was all in “public […]