New Delhi, March 27 -- As the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) moves to digitise its records following a high court order, the petitioner in the case has approached the Delhi government against the civic body's plans to outsource the work, calling it a waste of public funds.

In a letter to the chief minister and chief secretary, the Centre for Youth Culture Law and Environment (CYCLE) urged that the exercise be routed through the Delhi government's department of archives, which already has digitisation infrastructure.

"The MCD proposal is to hire an external agency for scanning and digitisation of records with per-page payment. At the same time, the Delhi government, through its department of archives, has already invested crores of...