Click to play videoNew Delhi: Management consultants, stockbrokers and software professionals operating out of rented premises in Delhi's residential areas are in a tizzy. They have not been exempted from the Supreme Court ordered sealing drive that resumes from November 1.
Jayaraman D, president of the Delhi chapter of IIM Ahmedabad Alumni Association is busier than usual these days. It is not increased business that is keeping him on the toes, but the fear induced by the Municipal Corporation's sealing drive that has worked management consultants in Delhi into lather.
Jayaraman says, “There is a fear among management professionals that MCD will disturb them and they will get into trouble. They are not comfortable that how implementation is going to take place.”
According to the 1962 master plan, only doctors, Chartered Accountants, lawyers and architects have been defined as professions.
The September 7 notification of the Urban Development ministry allows only these professions to work from houses and apartments provided they are self-owned and within the permissible norms.
MCD Spokesperson Deep Mathur says, "These professional activity based on professional skills namely, lawyers, doctors, CAs, and architects have restrictions also that they are permitted only up to 50 per cent of permissible Floor Area Ratio."
Delhi has about 100 professional categories operating either from their own house or through a rented unit. Most of these professions like stockbrokers, system analysts, interior designers, financial advisers or management consultants.
They say they do not pollute or disturb the peace of the neighbourhood. They say the concept of small office - home office is gaining ground and the Supreme Court and the master plan should acknowledge such activity.
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