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Delhi Cantonment (ISO: Dillī Chāvanī; popularly referred to as Delhi Cantt) is a Class I Cantonment Board established in 1914. The area of the Cantonment is 10,452 acres (42.30 km 2 ) and the population of the Cantonment as per the 2011 census is 110,351.
Delhi Cantt Assembly constituency is a part of New Delhi Lok Sabha constituency. Voter-verified paper audit trail (VVPAT) will be used along with EVMs in Delhi Cantt assembly constituency in 2015 Delhi Legislative Assembly election. [1] [2] 26/11 hero Surinder Singh won this seat in 2013 by 355 votes. [3]
MCD is one of three municipalities in the National Capital Territory of Delhi, the others being the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC), which administers the New Delhi area, and the Delhi Cantonment Board, which administers the Delhi Cantonment. It is the largest and only municipality of Delhi which is directly elected by the people.
Then on 22 February 1927, the Committee passed a resolution adopting the name "New Delhi" giving it the name, "New Delhi Municipal Committee", approved by Chief Commissioner on 16 March 1927. In May 1994, the NDMC Act 1994, [10] replaced the Punjab Municipal Act 1911, and the Committee was renamed as the New Delhi Municipal Council. [13] [14] [15]
The Delhi Cantonment Board operates as an independent municipal authority within the city of Delhi. As stipulated by the Cantonment Board Act of 2006, cantonment boards are designated as municipalities and are governed directly by the Ministry of Defence. This grants the Delhi Cantonment Board jurisdiction over its area, separate from the ...
Comprising 104 wards, the EDMC catered to a population of almost 5,600,000 (56 lakhs) in Delhi. [1] [2] Before its dissolution, it was one of five local bodies in the National Capital Territory of Delhi, alongside the North Delhi Municipal Corporation, East Delhi Municipal Corporation, New Delhi Municipal Council, and the Delhi Cantonment Board.
During the 1970s, Delhi had only four administrative districts ie North, South, Central and New Delhi. [12] Between January 1997 and September 2012, there were nine administrative districts and 27 sub-divisions. [1] In September 2012, two new administrative districts, viz. South-East Delhi and Shahdara were added to the city's map. [2]
Delhi Cantonment railway station (also known as Delhi Cantt.)(station code: DEC [1]), is a railway station in Delhi Cantonment, India. Delhi Cantonment Station Old and New facade History