 stalement of objects and reasonsthe question of re-organisation of the admunistrative se-up in the union hors of dethi has been under the consideration of the government - for do} ac time, the government of india appointed on 24-12-1987 a committee to go into the various issues connected with the administration of delhi and to recommend measures inter alia for the streamlining of the administrative set-up the committee went into the matter in great detail and considered the issues after holding discussions with various individuals, associations, political parties and other experts and taking into account the arrangements in the national capitals of other countries with a federal set-up and also the debates in the constituent assembly as also the reports by earlier committees and commissions after such detailed inquiry and examination, it recommended that delhi should continue to be a union territory and provided with a legislative assembly and a council of ministers responsib'e to such assembly with appropriate powers to deal with matters of concern to the common man the committee also recommended that with a view to ensuring stability and permanence the arrangements should be incorporated in the constitution to give the national capital a special status among the union territories, 2 the bill seeks to give effect to the above proposals new delhi; s b chavan the 12th december, 1991,