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From: "Architexturez." <interface.services@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 14:01:39 +0530
Let us notify more roads for mixed use: Ministry to SC
Express News Service
New Delhi, October 13: Mindful of negative political fallout if the
sealings of unauthorised commercial properties were to resume in the
Capital, the Centre today requested the Supreme Court to modify its
September 29 order restraining the government from issuing any further
notification for conversion of residential premises into commercial ones
without the court’s permission.
In an application filed in the apex court today, the Union Urban
Development Ministry claimed there were more roads and areas in the
Capital, which qualified under the September 7 notification to be
declared as mixed land use or as commercial streets or pedestrian
shopping streets and in turn get exemption from sealing.
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In today’s application, the Centre claimed that as per preliminary
estimates, there were lakhs of shops in these areas and that “it would
be extremely difficult for all such establishments to complete the
process of tendering such undertakings within such a short period.”
| there are over 20,000 architects registered with the CoA,
| 4,500 in Delhi itself.
The application also pointed to difficulties in carrying out the court’s
direction that the certificate of a registered architect should
accompany the affidavits. There were only 6,000 architects registered
with the Council of Architecture and all of them “may not be available
at a time for undertaking the task of certifying the use of premises for
commercial/ mixed use.
cont'd....
http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=205145