SDMC Mayor, Kamaljeet Sehrawat, the Chairman Standing Committee Bhupender Gupta and the leader of House Shikha Rai on Wednesday met the Members of the Supreme Court appointed Monitoring Committee and apprised them about the hardship being faced by the trader community. It has also been requested to give time of some weeks to the shop owners for depositing the conversion charges in instalments and till then the ongoing sealing drive should be put on hold.
The Mayor requested the members to allow the owners to deposit initially 25 per cent of the outstanding charges and take up the sealing drive after the expiry of the granted time.
The Committee members Bhure lal, Shri K J Rao and Shri Som Jhingen expressed their willingness in considering the request of SDMC.
later on the SDMC leaders also called on Union Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Hardeep Puri and requested him to consider the issue positively, and direct the concerned authorities to issue a notification about the reasonable conversion charges as the existing rates are hefty. The Mayor also requested the Union Minister to keep in hold the ongoing sealing drive till the date of issue of notification. He gave a patient hearing and assured the leader of an early solution of the problem.