NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to approach the Monitoring Committee to seek exemption for more residential colonies from sealing of commercial establishments before coming to court.

A three-Judge Bench, comprising Chief Justice Y.K. Sabharwal, Justice C.K. Thakker and Justice R.V. Raveendran, told the MCD counsel: "You go and impress the Monitoring Committee in this regard." Counsel told the Bench that three streets where commercial activities were going on were inadvertently left out in the government notification issued on September 15 exempting 2,183 streets from the sealing drive. He wanted permission to issue a fresh notification to include the three streets left out.

Modifications

In its application, the MCD said that on September 7 the Urban Development Ministry notified certain modifications in the Master Plan for Delhi. The Central Government laid down various guidelines by which certain streets/stretches of streets or areas could be notified as commercial streets or commercial areas by the local authority.

The MCD conducted a survey by which 2,183 streets/roads were identified as mixed-use streets and the commercial establishments operating in these areas were exempted from sealing drive.

However, Maa Anandmai Marg, Guru Ram Dass Marg and Shiv Mandir Marg in Lajpat Nagar-1 were inadvertently left out from the list of mixed-use though they fulfilled all the criteria as per the September 7 notification. It said the extent of commercialisation in these streets was more than 90 per cent and they ought to have been categorised as mixed-use streets/stretches.

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