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STINKING CORPORATIONS AND SMART CITY DREAM

By Sandhya Jain
Editorial
The Pioneer
http://www.dailypioneer.com
Tuesday, February 9, 2016

The Prime Minister's project to create new-age urban
centres across the country can meet stiff challenge in
his backyard: Delhi. The Municipal Corporations here are
mismanaged and, worse, pampered

The selection of the pampered New Delhi Municipal
Council, merely three per cent of the area and
population of the capital city, for upgradation under
the Centre's Smart Cities Mission, embarrassingly
overlapped with the prolonged strike by municipal
workers of the three Delhi Municipal Corporations and
highlighted some problems that have long plagued this
city.

The slugfest between the Delhi Government led by the
Aam Aadmi Party and the Corporations led by the
Bharatiya Janata Party, their mutual recriminations and
sins of commission or omission, are not the subject of
this column. But the BJP would do well to concede that
in street-fighting and populist rhetoric, Chief Minister
Arvind Kejriwal is miles ahead. While there is an
element of upper middle class disillusionment with him,
his potential to damage the BJP should not be
underestimated.

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http://www.dailypioneer.com/columnists/edit/stinking-corporations-and-smart-city-dream.html

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Om Shanti

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