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`Implement Master Plan immediately'

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Incorporate Tejinder Khanna report: Traders

NEW DELHI: The Confederation of All-India Traders (CAIT) on Monday asked the Centre to incorporate all the recommendations made by the Tejinder Khanna Committee, including regularisation of all business establishments that have come up in the Capital prior to December 31, 2005, in the Master Plan for Delhi-2021.

Demanding that the Master Plan be implemented immediately to save traders and residents from the ongoing sealing and demolition drives, CAIT leaders demanded that there should be no classification and categorisation of businesses and traders while granting relief to the traders and protect their livelihood.

Pointing out that multiplicity of authorities in the Capital was the main reason behind all civic ills, CAIT general secretary Praveen Khandelwal said the Government should form an integrated mechanism of administration in the city that could directly deal with all such civic problems.

"The Centre should form a Delhi Vision Group under the chairmanship of the Lieutenant-Governor besides setting up a Delhi Urban Regulatory Authority comprising town planners, structural engineers and representatives of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi and the Delhi Development Authority," said Mr. Khandelwal.

The Tejinder Khanna Committee has also said that there should be a Delhi Real Estate Commission to maintain digital data of all urban properties and for giving licences to property dealers and real estate agents and enforce their activities. Similarly an Empowered Special Task Force for key infrastructure projects was also required urgently, he added.

Extending its support to the traders protesting against the sealing drive in various other States including Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Karnataka, CAIT leaders said they would intensify their agitation in the Capital demanding an end to all sealing and demolition activities not only in Delhi but the entire country. "In Delhi, CAIT will organise meetings and stage dharnas in various parts of the city in the days to come."

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