Delhi's PG problem isn't new: The 30-year paperwork trail before Satya Niketan fell

Delhi's plan for a new PG safety policy, announced by CM Rekha Gupta after the Satya Niketan building collapse, isn't the city's first attempt at regulation. Efforts date back to 1993, through a Congress-era 2000 scheme, a 2019 Assembly panel that got no answers on enforcement, a 2021 MCD survey proposal, a 2022 plan to license 700 PGs, and a 2023 survey after a Mukherjee Nagar fire that found 100