Delhi Government decided to increase the Number of Districts in Delhi from 9 to 11

To facilitate the speedy justice and efficient administration, the Delhi government on 16 July 2012 decided in-principle to divide Delhi into 11 sessions and revenue districts. The existing number of district is nine that includes, Central, North, South, East, Northeast, Southwest, New Delhi, Northwest and West Delhi.
After reshaping the boundaries of existing districts there will be 11 districts including, Central, East, West, North, South, Najafgarh, Saraswati Vihar, Kalkaji, Preet Vihar, Seelampur and New Delhi. The Northeast, Northwest and Southwest districts will cease to exist while, five new districts namely Seelampur, Gandhi Nagar, Saraswati Vihar, Najafgadh and Kalka Ji will come into existence.
The government’s move came following law department sent a proposal to the Delhi government to divide the capital into 11 districts so that the work of the judiciary and the revenue department gets divided according to their respective areas.
Under the present structure, the work of the trial courts is divided into nine districts for the civil cases, while, there is only one chief metropolitan magistrate for criminal jurisdiction. For revenue department, there are nine districts along with 27 sub-divisions.