Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority has started dismantling 29 shops which were built on space allocated for loading and unloading of goods in the Koyambedu market. The decision to dismantle the shops was taken following a Madras High Court order passed in the month of July.
Initially, the 29 shops built on the loading and unloading area near Gate Number five were to be used as service shops. The decision was challenged by Koyambedu Kaai, Kari, Malar Viyabarigal Nalasangam president M Thiagarajan, who filed a petition in the Madras High Court.
However, in the Madras High Court, CMDA submitted a status report which stated that it does not want to go against the original plan and bring about changes in the master plan or to alter the plan and utilise the space for putting up construction for the government agency or for service shops as the demand for space for loading and unloading inside the market area is on the rise.
Hence to minimise the congestion in the market area, the open space for loading and unloading as per the masterplan is required," CMDA submitted in the court.
Traders allege that the market was not built as per the original plan which had gone missing as such there had been many diversions. Currently, many shops have been bifurcated into five or even 11 sections where in hotels and other shops are sublet. They also informed that there had been regular complaints and issues before the court. CMDA tried to regularize all the illegal shops three years ago as per new drawings and the site condition, it was alleged.
Meanwhile, the work to dismantle the 29 shops is likely to ber completed by the end of this week following which the site will be used for loading and unloading operations, an official overseeing the demolition work said.
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