With the 'Land and Development Office' (L&D) clearing the way to regularise encroachment at Lajpat Nagar-IV, at least 400 shops, which were sealed last year on the direction of the Supreme Court appointed Monitoring Committee, will be de-sealed by South Delhi Municipal Corporation, said Leader of the Opposition in Delhi Assembly Vijender Gupta.
Gupta said he talked to the officers of the L&D in this regard, which has cleared the way to regularise encroachment with 10 feet in front of these 400 shops and 17.5 feet on the back of these shops.
With this process, de-sealing of these shops will not be temporary but a permanent one, he said.
He also said the shopkeepers will not have to deposit rupees one lakh for de-sealing of their shops in terms of the directions of the Monitoring Committee.
Gupta said the L&D office has prepared a policy for regularisation of encroachments made by these shopkeepers in Lajpat Nagar-IV. Regularisation of encroachment under this policy will lead to a permanent solution for de-sealing, he added.
Earlier, a delegation of Lajpat Nagar-IV readymade garments market association met with LOP and pleaded to find a solution to the sealing problem. Following it, Gupta spoke to the officers of the L&D office after which temporary de-sealing was stopped, Gupta said in a statement.