In Delhi Government

In Delhi Government

Prof. Vijay Kumar Malhotra won the Assembly Election from Greater Kailash Assembly Constituency (AC-50) with a margin of 11,500 votes in the Elections to Delhi Assembly, held in December 2008. He was also chosen to represent the people of Delhi as the Leader of Opposition in the Delhi Legislative Assembly by his party MLAs, BJP being the largest opposition party in the Delhi Assembly. As the Leader of Opposition he has raised many issues of public interest on the floor of the House, some of which are :

· Rising Inflation of commodities.

· Deteriorating Law and Order situation in Delhi.

· Perpetual Power crisis in Delhi and Hike in tariff of Electricity.

· Continuing water related problems and Raising of water bills in Delhi.

· Regularization of Unauthorised Colonies.

Prof. Malhotra has served twice as an elected Member of the Delhi Municipal Corporation from Patel Nagar seat, New Delhi. At this position, he worked hard to ensure a planned development of his constituency making Patel Nagar a clean and green locality of beautiful parks, lakes and well-located markets and other amenities. He was then elected Member of the Delhi Metropolitan Council (equivalent to current Legislative Assembly). His party unanimously chose him for the prestigious post of the Chief Executive Councilor (CEC, CM in Protocol) of Delhi. At the age of 35 years, he was then the youngest CEC of Delhi. He served as CEC in the Metropolitan Council of Delhi for a full term of five years. This era is known as the ‘Golden Era’ in Delhi, as it saw the maximum development work take place, making Delhi a role-model of infrastructure for other cities in India.

In subsequent years, he was given several important positions in Committees set up by the BJP Government in Delhi. He has been Chairman of several such committees and his recommendations have benefited hundreds of thousands of people of Delhi. A brief summary of these is as follows :

The Delhi Master Plan was modified under the recommendations of the Malhotra Committee on Housing Bye-laws, which helped millions of flat and house owners. The recommendations allowed construction which almost doubled living space for people in these premises.

As per recommendations of the Malhotra Committee on Property Tax, there was a steep reduction in the tax for residential units, as it was based on the cost price rather than market price. Hundreds of thousands of owners got relief in abolition of Water Tax, Fire Tax, Scavenging Tax and Education Cess.

Following the Malhotra Committee’s Report on Education, moral, patriotic, civic as well as environment education, have been made compulsory in all schools in Delhi.

People of Delhi have benefited from recommendations of the Malhotra Committee on Delhi Master Plan, Malhotra Committee on Delhi Transport, Malhotra Committee on Conversion of Lease-hold properties into Free-hold properties and Malhotra Committee on Reforms in the Examination System.

Implementation of the recommendations of the Malhotra Committee on Industries, Commerce, Urban Villages and Unauthorized colonies has provided relief to more than 16 lakh families.

Other social contributions have been as Chairman, Delhi Cooperative Housing Finance Limited, as member, Samsad (Court) of Viswa Bharati, member of the Planning Board of Delhi and member of the National Cooperative Housing Federation.