The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued a stern warning to the MCD, NDMC and DDA against permitting any further encroachment upon government land in the city but stalled a fresh move to resume the drive to seal unauthorised commercial ventures in residential localities.
The court-appointed monitoring committee had recommended resumption of sealing of illegal commercial ventures in residential areas.
A bench of justices G.S. Singhvi and Swatanter Kumar deferred the committee’s proposal after several commercial establishments moved the apex court. The court extended its earlier order of stay on the sealing drive till Mach after issuing notices to the MCD, NDMC and DDA on their pleas.
However, the bench said that the two civic bodies and DDA would not permit any further encroachments upon the government land in the areas which were subject matter of the sealing proposal by the monitoring committee.
The top court also restrained the government any its agencies from passing any order for regularising the unauthorised constructions on public land while seeking to examine the committee’s report as well as the Master Plan of Delhi-2012 in depth in the next hearing fixed for March.
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DDA suggests ‘middle path’
Age Correspondent
New Delhi, Jan. 3
While a review of the Master Plan Delhi 2021 has begun amid a debate over whether or not the city should grow vertically with more high-rise buildings, the DDA has suggested that a “middle path” be adopted in the city’s development by allowing a mix of vertical and horizontal growth.
DDA vice-chairman A.K. Patnaik said that the review of the Master Plan has already been initiated and two meetings of the advisory group under the chairmanship of Lt. Gov. Tejinder Khanna have already taken place.