Cong protests sealing of non- polluting industries

Due to mistakes of Centre, Delhi govt, sword of sealing is hanging over businesses: Maken

The Delhi Congress will hold a demonstration outside chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s residence on Friday to protest against the sealing of non- polluting industries in the national capital.

Quoting the sixth Economic Census, Delhi Congress president Ajay Maken said on Tuesday that there were 8,75,308 industrial establishments in the city. Of these, he said 1,55,950 were manufacturing units. He said that due to the mistakes and laxity of the Modi government at the Centre and the Kejriwal government in Delhi, the sword of sealing was hanging over these establishments.

Mr Maken said there was provision in the Master Plan to give relief to nonpolluting industries from the sword of sealing hanging over them which in fact was provided by the Congress- led UPA government.

He said both the governments should give permission to run the non- polluting industrial establishments in Delhi without any delay. Addressing a press conference, Mr Maken made six demands before the Central and Delhi government to save lakhs of people’s employments. He said in a gazette notification of March 16, 2005, norms for redevelopment of clusters of industrial concentration in nonconfirming areas were set in which keeping in view the existing realities as well as the imperatives of planned development.

He said the redevelopment scheme will have to be prepared by the concerned land owning agency/ society with the approval of the municipal corporation of Delhi and Delhi Development Authority.

Mr Maken said that according to the Master Plan 2021, Delhi government has notified 22 nonconfirming clusters of industrial concentration having more than 70 per cent plots in the cluster with industrial activity for redevelopment.

He said that on the basis of this yard stick, many new areas such as Vishwas Nagar, Shastri Nagar, Tri Nagar, Sudarshan Park, Gandhi Nagar and Seelampur should be added for the redevelopment as industrial units in non- confirming areas. In this category Prahladpur Banger, Mundka and Mundka Udyog Nagar were also added on September 23., 2013.

The Congress leader said as per the Master Plan 2021, residential Group A and Villages ( abadi) A+ AI have already been given permission to run industrial units so that sealing in these areas should be stopped.