Work from home advisory, ‘Metro Day’, online classes: Delhi announces austerity measures

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File photograph  of Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta.

File photograph of Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta. | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma

Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta connected Thursday (May 14, 2026) announced respective austerity measures for authorities officials and the wide public.

Ms. Gupta said that the authorities unit tin enactment from location 2 days each week. She besides said an advisory volition beryllium issued to backstage companies to instrumentality enactment from location for 2 days a week. “For each large companies, we’ll petition them personally,” the Delhi Chief Minister added.

“Every Monday, volition beryllium ‘Metro Day’. We each Ministers and elder officers, wherever possible, volition usage the metro to travel to the bureau and go,” Ms. Gupta said.

Ms. Gupta besides said “We person segregated the bureau timing truthful that postulation volition beryllium less.” For the Delhi authorities the authoritative timings person been changed to 10.30 a.m. to 7 p.m.

“We person besides directed the Municipal Corporation Delhi to relation from 8.30 a.m. to 5 p.m.,” the Delhi CM said.

“We volition effort that 50% of meetings should beryllium online. Wherever imaginable we volition bash video conferencing,” Ms. Gupta said.

She said “We besides petition to colleges and Universities successful Delhi that non-practical classes, impermanent lectures, and administrative meetings are done successful online mode. Our acquisition section volition personally speech to Universities to guarantee this.”

“Delhi authorities curate oregon authoritative for the adjacent 1 year, starting from tomorrow, volition not spell for immoderate authoritative overseas visit,” the Delhi CM said.

Ms. Gupta said “Some of our programmes of officials and Ministers, we person cancelled. We volition besides debar large nationalist events and conferences for the adjacent 3 months.”

Published - May 14, 2026 04:30 p.m. IST

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