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Seeking Legal Sanction for Model Market Project

Things started moving after the MCD got a new Commissioner, Rakesh Mehta, who strongly
backed this project. In order to protect this work from likely sabotage, the Commissioner
approached the Supreme Court to allow the M.C.D. to undertake two pilot projects, one at
Sewa Nagar and the second near CGO complex

Extracts from the Order issued by the Supreme Court giving the go-ahead for two
Pilot Projects – in Sewa Nagar and opposite CGO Complex April 2003

…”The implementation of
any policy or project, howsoever well-
motivated it may be, depends on the bona fides
and whole-hearted faithful implementation by
the agencies involved in the execution. We only
hope and trust that such projects and policies
shall not be shadowed by corruption and red-tapism
which, unfortunately, has become the order of the day…”