1321 commercial units desealed in Delhi, total 4105 desealed

New Delhi, May 25 (UNI) The desealing operation by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, which began on Tuesday following the notification of the Delhi Laws (Special Provisions) Bill 2006 which places a one-year moratorium on sealing in Delhi, saw the MCD removing the seals of 1321 shops today.

The maximum number of 476 shops were desealed in the Civil lines area, followed by 231 in the city zone, 148 in Najafgarh, 120 each in Rohini and Sadar Paharganj and 97 in Shahdara (south).

Yesterday, the MCD desealed 2223 shops.

With today's desealing, the MCD has desealed a total of 4105 properties in Delhi.

The desealing of the commercial units comes following the notification of the Delhi Laws (Special Provisions) Bill 2006 which places a one-year moratorium, effective from January 1, 2006, on the demolition and sealing drives undertaken at the instance of orders of the Delhi High Court and the Supreme Court respectively.

Though the number of units desealed today was a drop from yesterday, leader of the House in the MCD Jitender kochar, talking to UNI here, said the coming days would witness a speeding up of the desealing process so as to provide relief to all the traders and common man in Delhi at the earliest.

''Our endeavour will be to ensure that the desealing process is completed within the next two to three days so that the people of Delhi are able to get relief,'' Mr Kochar said.

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