MCG clears marble market waste after NGT order

GURGAON: MCG has started work on the removal of waste and debris from the marble market in Sikanderpur, in compliance with the order of the National Green Tribunal (NGT).
MCG commissioner Vikas Yadav said that a major chunk of the waste material has been disposed off at the designated spot in Burari, and the civic body has also prepared a list of shopkeepers who have encroached upon land there.
The NGT had last week ordered the MCG to tighten the noose on marble market shop owners by asking them to remove the debris or face the sealing of their shops. Yadav said the corporation had already collected money from most of the shop owners for disposal of debris and other construction waste generated by them.
"We have collected charges from most of the shops in the Sikanderpur marble market area, barring a few. Apart from this, I have even prepared a report of the 56 current shop owners there. In 1999, only 31 shops were given space on a five-year-lease by the panchayat. The total land given in lease was 31,825 square meters," he said.
"Today there are 56 shops in the area with a total of 14,177 square meter land being encroached by them," the civic body chief added.
Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon has also issued directives to these shop owners that plots have already been allotted for them in sectors 33 and 34. "Land has been allotted for these shops in sectors 33 and 34 and that they are to shift their shops there at the earliest," he said.