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Time-bound de-sealing plan announced by MCD

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"Traders can submit their applications to zonal committees"

NEW DELHI: The newly elected Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, Vijender Gupta, on Thursday announced formation of zonal committees and a headquarters level committee to ensure time-bound de-sealing of commercial premises shut down during the Supreme Court-ordered sealing drive.

Mr. Gupta was addressing the first meeting of the Standing Committee at Town Hall here soon after his unanimous election as Chairman of the Committee. Dev Nagar BJP councillor Yogender Chandolia was elected Deputy Chairman.

"Traders can submit their applications to the respective zonal committees headed by the Deputy Commissioner and comprising a senior engineer and an assistant town planner. The committee will scrutinise the applications within two days of their submission and forward the same to the headquarter level committee which in turn will send it to the Supreme Court-appointed Monitoring Committee for its approval," said Mr. Gupta.

The headquarters level committee will be headed by an additional commissioner (engineering) and have a superintendent engineer (buildings) and a senior town planner as its members. "It will be mandatory for the headquarters level committee to forward the applications to the Monitoring Committee within two days and thus all formalities on the part of the MCD will be over in four days," said Mr. Gupta, adding that he would also call on the members of the Monitoring Committee some time soon with a request to speed up the process of clearing the de-sealing applications.

More than 10,000 commercials units are to be de-sealed but the applications are gathering dust in MCD offices in the absence of any fixed time-frame to clear the applications, said Mr. Gupta.

Building plans

The Chairman also proposed to make the process of seeking sanction for the building plans online. "The proposal is in the pipeline and I will soon discuss it with the MCD Commissioner," he added.

He said that 100 parking lots would be identified over the next 100 days and construction work on at least 12 multi-level parking projects would begin before the end of this year.

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