How people are saving their property from sealing

More people, even more ideas...The residents are adopting numerous ways to ditch the sealing man but what is going to work in favor of property owners is yet to be seen. I surveyed some of the residential areas and found some of the following ways people are adopting to avoid sealing:

1. Simply putting a sign that says, "This property is c;losed. No business runs from this premises."

2. Dumping all household junk, old furniture, torn clothes, window glass, that teak almirah, wine racks to picture the premises as a store house.

3. Getting the premises vacated by the tenants and simply locking out the area.

4. Constructing concrete walls to conceal and block the entrance to basements.

And of course, there are the ones who are operating the way they have been.

I will keep looking around and posr any developments that take place soon.

Delhi Gets Sealed Again...

In yet another round of confusion and miscommunication, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi resumed its property sealing drive (this week of September 17, 2007). With no-one still clear about the categories under which use of property is permissible by law, mostly small shopkeepers and local residents were targeted in the South Delhi area. I spoke to some people in the area and the prime concern of the residents was the following:

1. MCD is also sealing basements that do not have any industrial or polluting products stored in godowns.

2. Basements in residential plots of 200 sq. m. constructed as per the approved sanction plans of MCD; within the limits of the coverage area are also being targeted. This is particularly painful because such properties do not break any law. Now, basements cannot be used for residential purposes! They ought to be for commercial use.