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‘BJP deceiving traders over licence issue’

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: The Leader of the Opposition in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, Jai Kishan Sharma, and Licensing and Tehbazari Committee member Rakesh Rajoura have alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party has been “deceiving” the traders for the past two years on the matter of issuing trade and guest house licences.

They have demanded that the process of granting licences to traders doing business on notified commercial roads be started immediately and licences to guest houses also be issued with immediate effect. According to Mr. Sharma, the civic body had notified over 2,500 roads as com- mercial roads where trading activities were allowed under the Master Plan for Delhi- 2021 and the Supreme Court, too, had given its nod to it.

“It is unfortunate that till today the MCD has not issued a single trading licence on these roads. The process of granting licenses to guest houses has also not started as yet though the former Municipal Commissioner had decided that files belonging to issuance of licenses would not be sent to the Building Department but only intimation would be sent after issuing licence. It is regretful that even after a lapse of several months not a single license has been issued so far,” Mr. Sharma said.

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