Delhi govt plans to redraw district boundaries, number may go up to 13 with new names
New Delhi (PTI): The Delhi government has proposed a sweeping reshuffle of the capital's administrative map, raising the number of existing 11 districts to 13 with new names, officials said on Friday.
According to the draft plan of the Revenue department, the names of nine districts are recommended to be Civil Lines, Karol Bagh, Rohini, Narela, Najafgarh, City Sadar, Keshavpuram, North Shahdara and South Shahdara, they said. Central District, New Delhi, South District and West District are the remaining four district names, which have been retained in the proposal as is.
Except Shahdara, the existing districts bear names according to their geographic locations, such as East Delhi, West Delhi, North Delhi, South Delhi, South East Delhi, New Delhi, North West Delhi, Central Delhi, North East Delhi and South West Delhi.
The proposal for change in the names of the districts is in accordance with the government's policy decision to make their jurisdictional and geographical boundaries the same as those of municipal zones, the officer said.
According to the proposal, the North-East and East districts, having the highest population density, should be reorganised into North Shahdara and South Shahdara districts.
The reorganisation proposal recommends minimum changes in the New Delhi district, popularly known as Lutyens Delhi, although its three sub-divisions, Delhi Cantt, Vasant Vihar and Chanakyapuri, are recommended to be regrouped in Delhi Cantt and New Delhi sub-divisions.
The localities under the Vasant Vihar sub-division are proposed to be merged with the Najafgarh district, officials said.
The proposal is to be vetted and approved by the Delhi cabinet and sent to the lieutenant governor for his nod, before implementation, they added.
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Congress using hijab issue to pacify minority anger, alleges Karnataka LoP R Ashoka
Bengaluru: Leader of Opposition in the Assembly R. Ashoka has accused the Congress government of using the hijab issue to placate what he described as discontent among minority voters after the Davanagere by-election.
In a post on X on Wednesday, Ashoka alleged that the state government, instead of addressing issues such as price rise, corruption, farmers’ distress and law and order, was attempting to retain its minority vote base by reviving the hijab issue.
Referring to the 2022 dress code introduced by the BJP government, which prohibited hijab in schools and colleges, Ashoka said the Karnataka High Court had upheld the policy and emphasised the importance of discipline in educational institutions.
He questioned the Congress government’s move to revisit the issue and asked whether setting aside the court-backed policy to benefit one community could be described as secularism.
Ashoka further alleged that while the government was willing to permit hijab, it continued to prohibit saffron shawls.
He accused the government of dividing students on religious lines rather than treating schools and colleges as spaces of equality.
Drawing a comparison with Mamata Banerjee’s government in West Bengal, Ashoka claimed that excessive appeasement politics had harmed the state and warned that the Congress in Karnataka could face a similar political response.
He said voters in Karnataka would teach the Congress a lesson for what he termed “vote-bank politics” and for compromising constitutional and judicial principles.
