The Capital get Relief from the sealing till Dec 2008
Central Govt. has took a new ordinance to stop the sealing in The Capital.The Delhites get the relief from the sword of sealing.
Titled as “The National Capital Territory of Delhi Laws (Special Provisions) Second Ordinance, 2007″, the immunity would continue till December 31, 2008.
According to the ordinance, formulated in terms of the 2021 Master Plan for Delhi (MCD), the immunity would cover all encroachments, unauthorised occupation of government or public land for residential or commercial or any other use including unauthorised development.
Within days of telling the Supreme Court that it had no business to extend the sealing drive to unauthorised colonies, the Centre has brought into force an ordinance to force the sealing drive ordered by the top court against illegal constructions in Delhi to stop.
This decision was conveyed on Monday to an SC bench comprising Justices Arijit Pasayat, C K Thakker and L S Panta that has been dealing with a case of illegal construction in the village (lal dora) area.
Sanjeev Sen, MCD’s counsel, told the court that the ordinance promulgated on September 15 putting on hold the sealing drive, applied to the city as a whole, and not just the unauthorised colonies.
With the sealing drive having stopped in mixed land use areas, the civic body, at the instance of the SC monitoring committee, had moved to target unauthorised colonies and lal dora areas where commercial activity was going on.
The bench had disapproved of the Centre’s plea that the sealing drive should not be extended to unauthorised colonies since they constituted a different category. The court held that rules prohibiting commercial activity in residential areas of regular colonies were very much valid for illegal colonies as well.
Centre responded by bringing in the ordinance, which is to remain in force till December 31, 2008, prohibiting the sealing drive in these areas against illegal constructions and houses built without any sanctioned plan.
The list of such encroachments include schools, dispensaries, religious institutions, cultural institutions, slum dwellers, jhuggi-jhompri clusters, hawkers, urban street vendors, unauthorised colonies, village abadi areas and its extension, existing farm houses, warehouses, godowns used for agricultural produce.