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Another 204 roads cleared for commercial use

Staff Reporter

Total number goes up to 2,183; MCD says it has completed identification of commercial and mixed land use roads

NEW DELHI: The Municipal Corporation of Delhi on Thursday cleared another 204 roads and streets mainly in C and D category colonies to be included in the commercial and mixed land use category, taking the total number of such roads and streets across the Capital to 2,183.

The new list cleared by the MCD Standing Committee includes 185 roads in C and D category colonies besides 19 roads in E, F and G category localities. Baring those falling under the A and B category colonies (except for Master Plan roads), the MCD has now completed the exercise for identification of commercial and mixed land use roads and streets. This past Monday, the civic body had cleared 1,979 roads in E, F and G category colonies.

In the C and D category colonies, 55 roads will be made fully commercial, while 112 will come under mixed land use category. Similarly another 18 roads will be converted into pedestrian shopping streets. The roads and streets covered in the list include shopping hubs in Karol Bagh, Lajpat Nagar and Malviya Nagar.

The MCD also made 19 additions and corrections in the form of new roads and streets to its earlier list of 1,979 roads and streets in the E, F and G category colonies.

The comprehensive list, which covers a majority of roads and areas where the MCD is carrying out sealing drive against illegal commercial establishments as per the Supreme Court orders at present, is likely to give relief to a large number of traders and residents facing the civic body's sealing squads.

The new list has roads and areas falling in nine of the 12 civic zones. The maximum number of roads for inclusion in the commercial category is in Central Zone (20 roads), followed by Najafgarh (9), Karol Bagh (8), South (6), City (5), Civil Lines (3) and Rohini and West (2 each).

Similarly in the mixed land use category, West Zone will have 28 roads, followed by Central (23), Karol Bagh (15), South, Najafgarh and Civil Lines (11 each), Shahdara-South (6), Rohihni (4) and City (3).

In the congested City Zone, 18 roads have been identified for conversion into pedestrian shopping streets.

Major roads that have been cleared for commercialisation include Ajmal Khan Road, Gurdwara Road, Maharana Pratap Market Road, Tank Road and Bara Bazar Marg (Old Rajinder Nagar) in Karol Bagh Zone; while Shyam Lal Road and Dayanand Road have been cleared in City Zone; Bijwasan Road and Najafgarh Town in Najafgarh Zone; and Roshanara Road, Parmanand Road and Vijay Nagar Road in Civil Lines Zone.

Similarly in Central Zone, the new commercial roads will be Kalkadevi Marg, Garhi Main Road, Kalkaji Main Road and Gurdwara Road (Kotla Mubarakpur); in Rohini Zones it will be Kabir Das Marg and Prashant Vihar Internal Road; in South Zone, Satya Niketan Internal Road, Benito Juarez Marg, Dheer Singh Marg and Maharishi Dayanand Marg (Malviya Nagar); and in Shahdara-South, New Kondli.

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