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Sealing drive gains momentum

Staff Reporter

MCD targets 93 unauthorised commercial establishments in Delhi

READY FOR ACTION: MCD officials and Delhi Police personnel on an inspection and sealing drive outside an insurance building in Greater Kailash on Wednesday. Photo: V.V. Krishnan

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court-ordered sealing drive in the Capital gained momentum on Wednesday with the Municipal Corporation of Delhi targeting 93 unauthorised commercial establishments on mixed land use category roads across seven municipal zones.

In daylong action, 23 properties were targeted in Kanti Nagar Main and E-block Krishna Nagar in Shahdara (South), while 19 premises on Main Road Sultanpuri in Najagarh were sealed for carrying out commercial activities on floors other than the ground floor.

Basements spared

The civic body's squads have spared sealing of basements for the time being with ambiguity prevailing over their legality.

Similarly, sealing action continued for the second day in a row on Lala Lajpat Rai Marg in South Delhi with the municipal squads targeting 15 properties in Kailash Colony.

In Rohini, 13 properties were sealed on three stretches of Internal Road in Sector 5, while in Civil Lines the drive was carried out in two different localities -- Kewal Park Extension, where eight establishments were sealed, and on Ashoka Road in Majlis Park where three properties were targeted. Only one property was sealed on Ram Bhorai Marg in Central Zone.

In West Zone, the sealing squads did not find any violations on Main Road Pocket III in Paschim Puri and the team returned without initiating any action.

The action remained by and large peaceful with no reports of protest.

Earlier, nine commercial premises on Lajpat Rai Marg in South Delhi were sealed on Tuesday in a sealing operation delayed by several hours due to "non-availability of police force".

In all, a total of 242 illegal properties have been sealed since the resumption of the drive on March 28, after a break of over two months.

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