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BJP seeks relief

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Party delegation meets Jaipal Reddy

NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday urged Union Urban Development Minister S. Jaipal Reddy to save shops operating from Delhi Development (DDA) Authority flats on notified roads from sealing. It also urged him to bring a regularisation scheme for these traders by taking one-time charges from them.

Led by the Leader of the Opposition in the Delhi Assembly, Jagdish Mukhi, a BJP delegation met the Minister seeking relief for these traders. Prof. Mukhi said commercial activities should be allowed along all notified roads, including the 2,183 new ones, in all types of properties -- private as well as government.

Stating that the decision taken to seal shops operating from DDA flats was impractical, the BJP leader said if these shops were sealed, a large number of people would be left jobless.

"When shops in private properties are allowed, there should be no bar on government-owned properties including that of DDA," he demanded.

Similarly, the Leader of the Opposition in the MCD, Subhash Arya, said a special status should be accorded to colonies that came up prior to 1962, the year when the first Master Plan for Delhi was notified, and no sealing should be carried in their colonies.

Mr. Arya also said people had to convert their residences into shops as the Government failed to provide jobs as well as commercial spaces to meet the needs of growing population in the city. Now it would be unfair to target them and the only way out of this issue was to regularise their shops by charging penalty, he added.

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