SC to start examination of MPD 2021 from tomorrow

New Delhi, July 22 (UNI) The Supreme Court will start examining the new Master Plan Delhi 2021 (MPD 2021) from tomorrow.

The government has permitted commercial activities from residential areas to protect traders from sealing. The government has also provided a protective umbrella to illegal constructions in the national capital.

A bench, headed by Justice Arijit Pasayat, has decided to examine the issue of providing infrastructure like basic amenities water, electricity, and parking space to make the MPD 2021 workable in the metropolitan city.

A batch of petitions is pending in the apex court challenging the validity of new MPD 2021 on the grounds that it was aimed at protecting and sheilding land mafia and land grabbers in the city who have indulged in large scale unauthorised constructions in Delhi and Resident Welfare Associations(RWAs) have been left out in the cold.

The peocess of sealing of commercial premises operating from residential areas has virtually been given up by MCD.

The apex court will also hear the application of Chartered Accountants Association seeking directions to the authorities not to seal the offices of CAs as other proffessionals like lawyers and doctors have been given protection from sealing.

The Supreme Court has pulled up the Central Government for notifying MPD 2021 without providing adequate infrastructure for the residents of the city, who were already facing severe crisis of water, electricity, parking space, roads and both the civic bodies -- MCD and NDMC -- have been directed to seal all the commercial premises which are not protected by MPD 2021.

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