Taking action against alleged violators of building by-laws, the building department of North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NMC) has sealed 116 points of 45 properties in Tri Nagar area of North west Delhi.
A senior north corporation official said all these points were sealed in a drive carried out by the corporation in last three days till September 6. "There is no need to serve notices to the violators of building bye-laws. Officials after being instructed by the Supreme Court appointed "Monitoring Committee" sealed the properties, he said.
Traders in the national Capital hit hard after building department of the municipal corporations had started sealing business establishments for a number of reasons including non-payment of conversion charges, encroachment and illegal construction on the instructions of the Supreme Court-appointed Monitoring Committee.
Thousands of shops have been sealed since last December and there is still no sigh of relief amid all the alleged efforts put up by all concerned stakeholders.
In March 2006, the Supreme Court had ordered the sealing of all unauthorised construction and also appointed a Monitoring Committee to conduct the sealing drive under its supervision. It was further revised on December 15, 2017 with three members - comprising former adviser to the Election Commission KJ Rao, Chairman of Environment Pollution (Prevention & Control) Authority (EPCA) Bhure Lal and Major General (retd) Som Jhingan of the team.