Sealing: Traders body writes to L-G, objects to some proposals

A traders body today wrote to Delhi Lt Governor Anil Baijal raising objections to certain proposals by the DDA for amendments in Master Plan 2021 for providing relief to traders from the ongoing sealing drive.
The Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) alleged that the proposals were "half-baked" and that "many conditions have been attached with each proposal which will be roadblocks for obtaining benefit of the spirit and intention of the proposals".
"You will appreciate that sealing is a very critical issue for the trading community as it is related to livelihood of not only the traders but even their employees and people of other section dependent upon them.

"As such, each proposal should be crafted after assessment of the impact and its practicality," the letter to the L-G stated.
The issues highlighted by the traders in the letter include, no mention of special area, faults in policy for warehouses and godowns in non conforming areas/agricultural land and norms for rehabilitation of colonies.
"The condition for obtaining no objection certificate from the fire department for the buildings already built is a counter-productive proposition as obtaining fire NOC is difficult in the present circumstances and fire norms," the traders body wrote to the L-G.
The BJP-ruled civic bodies have undertaken sealing drive initiated by the Supreme Court-appointed monitoring committee. Commercial premises have been sealed for failing to deposit conversion charges according to provisions in the master plan.