Although the board functions as a local municipal body, it remains under the administrative control of the Directorate General Defence Estates, New Delhi and Principal Director, Defence Estates, Western Command, Chandigarh.

The cantonment also houses the Army Hospital Research and Referral, a tertiary care medical centre of the Indian Armed Forces.

Indira Gandhi International Airport is about 5 kilometres from Delhi Cantonment.

Almost all the trains plying from Delhi towards Rajasthan or Gujarat have either a stop here or originates from this station itself.

It is easily accessible by road and local bus to the residents of nearby residential neighbourhoods such as Palam, Dabri, Dwarka, Aerocity, Dhaula Kuan, DU South Campus, Tilak Nagar, Hari Nagar, Mayapuri, Sagarpur, Vasant Vihar, Vasant Kunj, Naraina, Inder Puri and Janakpuri.