Ahmedabad Corporation Resumed Its Sealing Drive
Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) resumed its sealing drive on Monday after a gap of one month. Civic officials sealed 156 commercial units in eight complexes between Stadium Circle and Swastik Crossroads which has seen the maximum action from the AMC. Civic officials said that the shops sealed on Monday operated from buildings which were shown as nursing homes and residential complexes on AMC records.
AMC started sealing shops on CG Road in October last year against which the CG Road Shop Owners Association moved Gujarat high court. The court stayed the sealing drive for two months from November 23 and granted time to shop and office owners here on condition that they would furnish a suitable place for parking facilities. The court told association that the new parking space should be as large as 30 per cent of the FSI of all buildings on the stretch. The court also asked the traders not to include the margin space in front of the buildings while measuring the FSI.
However, the shop owners’ association and the jewellers’ association that had approached the court seeking more time, failed to resolve the issue and finally stay on sealing was lifted on February 11. Since then the AMC officials have sealed more than 200 shops in 24 complexes on CG Road for parking space and building norms violations. The buildings were shown as nursing homes and residential complexes on AMC records.
“For all these years, shop owners on CG Road operated from illegally built buildings. Before sealing the shops we made a list and have been carrying out the sealing drive as per the high court’s directive. We have still more shops on our list and they will also be sealed soon,” said a senior AMC official.
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