Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's first day in office Monday Feb 16,2015

 

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal with his Cabinet ministers

With its order to stop demolitions in the city until the government reviews the existing policies, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has set the ball rolling to fulfill the poll sops promised by the Aam Aadmi Party. 

Kejriwal, in the first Cabinet meet of the newly-formed Delhi Government, also initiated the process to slash the power subsidy by 50 per cent. 

AAP ministers who attended the meeting said the election promise was not to demolish slums without a rehabilitation plan. They said the government plans to take a holistic view on the existing policy of carrying out demolitions of residential houses and jhuggis.

Arvind Kejriwal on Monday directed the power and finance departments to ‘immediately’ send their proposals for implementing the party’s poll promise to slash power tariff by 50 per cent and to make provision for 20,000 litres of free water to every household. 

The government also initiated the process to fulfil the poll promise of deploying homeguards in DTC buses with Justice and Home Minister Jitender Singh Tomar writing to principal secretary home, seeking information on the number of homeguards in Delhi.

People outside the Secretariat, where media were barred from entering