Click to play videoNew Delhi: Phase-two of the land sealing drive began in New Delhi on Saturday. The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) sealed many big showrooms on Supreme Court's directive to continue sticking down commercial establishments running in residential areas.
However, the worst hit are the shop employees who say that their only means to earn a living has been lost.
"I can't get a job anywhere in Delhi. How will I feed my children?" says 26-year-old Satish Barsan who had been working in a South Delhi showroom for eight-years until the showroom owner was forced to shut shop. Satish says he doesn't know how he'll feed his family now.
Most showroom owners have vacated their shops having anticipated that MCD sealing is inevitable.
The sealing drive has not been easy for the MCD officials either. Caught between the Delhi government's notification permitting traders to continue business and the Supreme Court's directive to go ahead with the sealing, they've been facing the traders' fury.
"We are only following the Supreme Court's directive," MCD Assistant Engineer, Anil Kumar says.
Commercial establishments in A and B posh residential colonies had been spared earlier, when the court's deadline of September 1 got over. The reason - a last minute intervention by the Supreme Court's Monitoring Committee, which felt legalities needed to be sorted out before big businesses could be targeted.
But now Delhi’s posh areas like Greater Kailash, Vasant Vihar, South Extension, Green Park and Golf Links have also come on MCD’s hit list.
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