Councillors in Delhi civic bodies score low on performance, says Praja report

It ranks them in terms of attendance, number of issues raised from 2018 to 2021

The performance of councillors in Delhi’s three municipal corporations — North, South and East — has been on the decline in the last three years in terms of attendance in house meetings and the number of issues raised, a report card released by the NGO, Praja Foundation, said on Thursday.

A majority of the 265 councillors across the BJP-led civic bodies were ranked abysmally in the report. North Delhi Municipal Corporation councillor and Delhi BJP president Adesh Kumar Gupta was ranked 80 (scoring 50.34 out of 100) and Mayor Raja Iqbal Singh was ranked 70 (scoring 53.11 out of 100).

The data for the report titled ‘Delhi Councillor Report Card 2021’ was collated through RTIs and public accounts. But unlike the previous years, this year’s is a consolidated report that documented the performance of 265 municipal councillors from 2018 to 2021.