Leaders of traders' associations from across the city are going to meet at the Constitution Club on Sunday to discuss the logistics of the mega rally.
As many as 7 lakh traders in the national Capital plan to not send their children to school and come out on streets yet again protesting the ongoing sealing drive on March 28. The Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) has called for a "complete shutdown" and will be taking out a mega rally till Ramlila Maidan demanding "immediate" end of the sealing drive.
"More than 3,000 traders' associations are expected to join the rally, which will start at 10 am. We have planned not to send our children to school, because soon we won't be able to pay their school fee due to the sealing," said Praveen Khandelwal, general secretary, CAIT.
Leaders of traders' associations from across the city are going to meet at the Constitution Club on Sunday to discuss the logistics of the mega rally.
To promote their cause, the traders' body plans to take out 11 chariots in different zones of the Capital speaking about the "harassment" they are facing.
"When 1,500 unauthorised colonies can be regularised with one stroke, why can't an amnesty scheme or a moratorium Bill on sealing be introduced by the government? At a time when the next Master Plan of Delhi is scheduled to be enforced from 2021, preparations of which have already started, it is appropriate that status quo is maintained and all focus should be on better planning in the new document," Khandelwal said.
Traders demanded the government must constitute a high-level committee under the chairmanship of Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal to discuss how the next Master Plan 2021-2041 can be enforced and be charted as a well-planned policy document.
"The representatives of traders should also be included in the committee besides officials," said Vijay Kumar, member, CAIT.
The apex court had recently pulled up the Delhi Development Authority (DDA), municipal corporations and the Delhi government for not taking necessary steps to bring in the proposed amendments in the Master Plan of Delhi-2021 (MPD) to relieve the traders.
The sealing drive is being conducted by the municipal corporations on directions of the Supreme Court-appointed Monitoring Committee for "misuse" of residential premises for commercial activity, unauthorised constructions and increased floor area ratio (FAR) encroaching into public land. The three-member panel was set up in 2006, when a mass sealing drive was conducted in the Capital.
WHY THE MOVE
The traders say they will soon be unable to pay the school fee of their children due to the losses incurred following the sealing of their respective shops.
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