33 units sealed, about 200 notified area traders file affidavits

New Delhi, Nov 16 (UNI) A day after the Monitoring Committee granted relief to traders falling under areas notified under the September 15 Delhi Government notification, the MCD's sealing drive continued today on non-notified areas as also shops falling under the negative list of items under the Urban Development Ministry notification with 33 units in Central, South and West Zone put to seal.

Among those sealed were 10 units located at Ring Road in front of Lajpat Nagar-IV, Nehru Nagar and Ashram falling in Central Zone and 18 units located at Gautam Nagar and Gujjar Dairy in South Zone, an MCD spokesperson said.

ALso falling under the MCD scanner were five units located at Keshavpur Marg, Raja Garden and PWD Road No 237 Hastsal falling in the West Zone.

The sealing drive at Hastsal met with some resistence from local people.

Meanwhile, MCD sources said nearly 200 traders falling in the notified areas today filed affidavits that they had stopped the misuse of their establishments, as directed by the Monitoring Committee yesterday.

The committee yesterday announced that traders who had submitted affidavits in the Apex court but whose shops were located on the 2183 notified areas would not be subjected to sealing till November 21 but that they would have to intimate in writing that they have stopped the misuse of their properties.

Based on the affidavits, the Supreme Court-appointed Committee would send a report to the apex Court, which would give its decision on the matter on November 21.

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