SC apppoints monitoring committee to oversee ceiling operation

New Delhi, Aug 23 (UNI) The Supreme Court has appointed a monitoring committee to oversee the process of ceiling of commercial premises in the capital which are not protected by MPD 2021.

The Committee is expected to file its report in the next few days to bring to the notice of the apex court the deliberate and wilfull disobedience of the orders of the higest court of the land.

The MCD had refused to resume ceiling from August 20 in unauthorised and unregularised colonies and had also declined to free the commercial premises operating from the roads where mixed land use has not been permitted by the government. The MCD and the Union Urban Development Ministry have already moved the apex court for staying ceilng operations till the Delhi government finalises the list of about 1500 unauthorised colonies for regularisation.

Once the colonies are regularised, the government may grant one time amnesty to all illegal constructions and encroachments as well as the commercial establishments operating in these colonies. It may regularise such violations of law after charging a compounding fee.

The Supreme court which is examining MPD 2021 has already threatened to stay the master plan if the government fails to mend its ways.

The government has been directed to file affidavits giving details of the infrastructure, including basic amenities like water, electricity, roads and parking space needed for making the new MPD feasable and workable.

The apex court is likely to hear the application of MCD and the Centre as well as consider the report of the monitoring committee on August 31.

UNI