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MCD clears the air on mixed use

Staff Reporter

Those running retail shops are not required to pay the mixed use fees

NEW DELHI: Municipal Corporation of Delhi Standing Committee Chairman Vijender Gupta on Tuesday clarified that people running retail shops or carrying out professional, public and semi-public activities from commercial areas listed in the Master Plan for Delhi-1962 are not required to pay the annual mixed use charges.

They, however, need to produce documents to substantiate that they have been engaged in the commercial activity prior to 1962 and are also required to pay the parking charges as applicable, added Mr. Gupta.

In a statement, the BJP leader said mixed use charges are to be paid by those whose premises are eligible for mixed land use and situated on notified roads irrespective of whether the road is notified under “mixed use”, “commercial use” or “public pedestrian street” category. He clarified that conversion charges are to be paid for the complete built-up area including authorised and unauthorised construction, if any. However, payment of conversion charges for unauthorised construction does not imply regularisation of the illegal construction.

The essential commodities shops, as described in the Master Plan for Delhi-2021, with a maximum area of 20 square metres need to pay only conversion charges and not parking charges. Similarly plots and dwelling units which fall along the pedestrian shopping streets have been kept out of the ambit of parking charges.

Mr. Gupta said commercial activity is allowed only on the ground floor in mixed land use areas and thus conversion charges are to be paid for the ground floor only.

Dispelling fears that those who fail to pay the mixed land use and parking charges will face sealing action, Mr. Gupta said no such drastic action was proposed to be taken. However, delay in payment of charges will be compoundable on payment of interest at 8 per cent per annum.

Properties found under mixed use category without declaration or registration or in violation of the relevant provisions of the Master Plan would be liable for penal action and penalty amounting to ten times the annual conversion charges, he added.

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