Disappointment with SC order, traders look towards Govt for relief

New Delhi, Apr 28 (UNI) Traders today expressed their disappointment over the Supreme Court not stopping the sealing drive against commercial establishments running from residential areas and have now pinned hopes on the Centre to bring a bill to regularise such structures.

We were disappointed that the apex court did not intervene in the situation, and we would want the government to bring in a bill in Parliament session resuming on May 10 to legalise all commercial premises operating from residential areas as on March 31 this year, Federation of All India Trader's Association president B R Jain said, he added.

''If this did not happen then all the traders would take to the streets.'' The sealing drive was not only affecting the traders and their employees but also trade in the national capital and tax collections had nosedived in recent months in the city, he said.

Municipal Corporation of Delhi and Delhi Development Authority officials who had 'allowed' such structures to come up all these years should also be taken to task, he added.

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