India, Feb. 17 -- The Noida authority has discontinued the city's health department and the traffic cell and transferred these responsibilities to respective Work Circles (administrative divisions), officials said on Monday.

"We have decided to integrate the health department and the traffic cell with Work Circles to streamline health and traffic management. Now the Work Circle officials will have the responsibility to oversee these services, including sanitation and traffic management, along with their earlier responsibilities," said Krishna Karunesh, chief executive officer (CEO) of the Noida authority.

Spread across 20,000 acres, Noida is divided into ten work circles. Project engineers head each work circle, reporting to the chief e...