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The only solution is power-sharing through federal institutional mechanisms, which reach local democracy in a manner that most sections feel empowered with a fair share of resources.
It is the newest state of India and it corresponds to the Telugu-speaking portions of the erstwhile princely state of Hyderabad, previously an independent state but was later integrated after the Indian government went to war in 1948 and annexed it.
With a plethora of elected and other agencies, overload of Delhi‘s governance structure has been a huge drag. In addition to 272 councilors in the erstwhile three Municipalities, 70 MLAs in the NCT government and seven MPs, there is the New Delhi Municipal Council for the cloistered Lutyens‘ zone, and Cantonment Board, not to talk of the Union government controlling its land and policing. Multiplicity of institutions, often with overlapping jurisdictions and sometimes contradictory goals, make for sub-optimal output and outcome, a lot of waste