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Sealing drive to begin on November 1

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: From November 1 the Municipal Corporation of Delhi will resume its sealing drive targeting illegal commercial establishments across the Capital, including those not covered under the recent notifications issued by the Centre. This was decided at a meeting of the Supreme Court-appointed Monitoring Committee, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi and the Delhi police late on Thursday evening.

The Monitoring Committee also decided that no sealing exercise be carried out till October 31 in view of the ongoing festive season. Officials of both the civic body and the police have expressed their inability to go ahead with the sealing drive as security personnel are deployed to maintain law and order in the city and there is a shortage of force to carry out the sealing drive.

The Monitoring Committee also directed officials of both the MCD and the police to work out modalities for resuming the sealing operation from November 1. Senior officials of both organisations would hold at least two rounds of talks to finalise a plan before resuming the sealing exercise. The Monitoring Committee members warned them to ensure that sealing is carried out in a planned and peaceful manner and traders should not complain of any favouritism.

Meanwhile, finding no relief coming from the Government or the courts, traders have decided to gherao Old Secretariat on the first day of the forthcoming Delhi Assembly session on October 30.

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