MCD proposes to observe June 1 as Municipal Corporation Day

NEW DELHI: The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) will soon table a proposal to celebrate June 1 as Municipal Corporation Day in its house meeting. A civic body official informed that June 1 is the date on which the first meeting of the General Committee of Municipality took place in 1863.

The official said, “Usually, all the big and historical organisations celebrate their day of inception to inculcate a feeling of belongingness in their employees. However, there is no such day earmarked in MCD.” It added, “MCD has a history spanning 160 years and is one of the oldest organisations in the country, which deserves due recognition and one of the ways to do so is to earmark the foundation day.”

Delhi civic body’s history goes back to February 1863, and the General Committee came into being to frame bylaws to run the city in April 1863. First meeting of the General Committee took place on June 1, 1863, under the chairmanship of the Commissioner. Later, after India’s independence, the Delhi Municipal Corporation Act was framed in 1957, which came into force on April 7, 1958.