Comments on: Demolition Drive by Municipal Corporation of Delhi

By: Suru

Suru — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:50:36 +0000

I have my observations below:

Stop registration of properties that are unauthorised. Atleast those people, who are ignorent about any court case or demolition drive can be saved.

By: Arun

Arun — Sun, 05 Feb 2006 09:55:56 +0000

I oppose this move by MCD. I have my own reasons.

Delhi is built in last 15 years and every one in deprtment was sleeping since then. They have allowed people to construct shops, houses beyond permissible level.

Each department is charging there fees i.e. Electricity departments are charging bills for commercial use, The annual valuation is as per commercial terms and all the Govt. Taxes i.e sales tax, service tax, turnover tax etc are paid on regular basis.

How come suddenly it become illegal then?

In India there is no such rule any where except Delhi that one can not changes the usages of land to commercial or residential.

This way Govt. is providing benefit to NCR and people are moving there…

By: priya

priya — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 17:13:29 +0000

I completely agree with the author that we all should come forward, raise our hands and support this movement. But as it is said that charity begins at home, we all must see whether we have been following the guidelines laid by the MCD ourselves. Unless and until we are going to resolve the issue from our homes nothing concrete would be obtained.

As far as opposition from the politicians is concerned then theirs is a case in which three fingers point towards them when they raise a finger on someone.

It is surely a topic of concern as the commercial establishments are using the resources, which are meant for residential usage. Simultaneously, it causes a lot of traffic hazards; noise pollution etc., What is required is an extensive effort to combat the encroachment problem and commercial use of residential areas but the same should take place at a time when encroachments begins.

A lot of deliberation is requiredâ€¦there actually should be a drive similar to the present one at the time when the encroachments start taking place to avoid any kind of inconvenience to the people as we as to the MCDâ€¦MG-1 Mall is the latest example of this today and tomorrow MG-2 would take its placeâ€¦the whole thing once again boils down to only one thing and that is CORRUPTION. Corruption is there when the encroachments are allowed and corruption is again there when there is demolition.

Encroachments are not initially avoidedâ€¦but once a place has been established and then demolishing an established is very painful for the occupantsâ€¦what exactly is required is that encroachments should not at all be allowed to take place at the first instance!!!…