India, July 18 -- The standing committee of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) on Wednesday approved a slew of long-pending infrastructure proposals, including a multilevel parking project, a new waste processing facility at Ghazipur, road and streetlight revamps in south and west Delhi, and sanitation upgrades in a significant policy push after a prolonged delay.

The approvals come after more than two and a half years of deadlock, caused by political and legal disputes over the formation of the standing committee.

This was only the second meeting of the newly constituted panel, which reviewed over 130 policy proposals and layout plan changes. Officials said that 23 of 130 resolutions were cleared.

A senior MCD official said that...