A division bench of Acting Chief Justice Manmohan and Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora remarked that MCD is embroiled in a lot of litigation because of its corruption and inefficiency and that the Court was fed up of giving time to the municipal body to clear its dues.
The Court said that if the MCD cannot set its house in order, then a new system will be evolved without this current municipal corporation.
“We have done enough, we are not going to help you anymore now. You are mature people. If you don’t pay salaries to your employees and become financially viable, we will close you. The constitution has a provision for dissolving you, we will do that. You are inefficient people; you need to be told there is no space for you. You are only generating litigation for us because of your inefficiency and corruption. Either you set your house in order, if you can’t do that, then I think we need a new system and we will evolve a new system. There is a provision to dissolve you. We will do it. (If) you can’t find the resources, then we will evolve a new system,” the Court remarked.
Source: Barandbench
