NEW DELHI: After stonewalling the sealing drive in Lajpat Nagar’s Amar Colony, South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) again seems to be in no mood to carry out a similar order by the Supreme Court-appointed monitoring committee in the Rajouri Garden main market.
A civic official informed the corporation’s standing committee on Monday that there had been no change in the previous official stand of the executive wing that no sealing drive could be carried out on the 351 stretches for which the land-use notification had been pending in the Supreme Court.
“Last year, a similar order was sent to the west zone of SDMC. After taking legal counsel, we had informed the sealing panel that the action cannot be carried out on these premises,” the official said. Gyanesh Bharti, the newly appointed commissioner, also said the status quo would be maintained.
Narender Chawla, a former mayor of SDMC who raised the issue at the standing committee, said the SC panel had been trying to create fear among the traders’ community by issuing such notices. “The Rajouri Garden market is 62 years old. How can it be closed down? We have taken opinion from the law department and the matter was closed last year,” Chawla said.
If the order is implemented, more than 600 shops will be affected. Last week, the committee asked SDMC to issue notices “in continuation to the sealing order dated 14th May, 2018” as “no action has been taken till date” against the shops on the non-notified road of the market.
The SC panel has set September-end as the deadline to complete the work.
A civic official informed the corporation’s standing committee on Monday that there had been no change in the previous official stand of the executive wing that no sealing drive could be carried out on the 351 stretches for which the land-use notification had been pending in the Supreme Court.
“Last year, a similar order was sent to the west zone of SDMC. After taking legal counsel, we had informed the sealing panel that the action cannot be carried out on these premises,” the official said. Gyanesh Bharti, the newly appointed commissioner, also said the status quo would be maintained.
Narender Chawla, a former mayor of SDMC who raised the issue at the standing committee, said the SC panel had been trying to create fear among the traders’ community by issuing such notices. “The Rajouri Garden market is 62 years old. How can it be closed down? We have taken opinion from the law department and the matter was closed last year,” Chawla said.
If the order is implemented, more than 600 shops will be affected. Last week, the committee asked SDMC to issue notices “in continuation to the sealing order dated 14th May, 2018” as “no action has been taken till date” against the shops on the non-notified road of the market.
The SC panel has set September-end as the deadline to complete the work.
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