Udhagamandalam: Thirty-three shops in the Ooty municipal market were sealed by officers on Tuesday for 2 years of rent arrears.
All the malls out there downed their shutters to protest the municipality motion. Shopkeepers additionally staged an indication in front of the municipal office.
As consistent with a central authority order, there must be an building up of 15% in rent payable to the municipality by the merchants for each three years ranging from July 2007. The municipality additionally must renew the lease agreement with a new rental pattern as prescribed by the PWD from July 2016. The rental quantity must be fixed for each and every shop in line with plinth area.
“We adopted the federal government order and issued notices to the malls falling beneath the municipality regulate for a new rental pattern prescribed by the PWD. Final notices were issued to 400 shops out of 1,589 shops in the municipal market and outside the market area,” Ooty municipal engineer and commissioner in-charge C Ravi said.
He said, “Out of 53 shops for which the final date lapsed for paying the rental, 33 shops were sealed on Tuesday with police protection. We couldn’t seal the rest of the malls as shopkeepers accrued and staged a protest.”
Braving the rain, round 500 shopkeepers accrued in front of the Ooty municipal office and staged an indication. A gathering took place between municipal officers and office-bearers of the municipal market merchants’ association. Later, the malls out there were opened in the afternoon.
“We have requested the merchants to pay the revised rental due in installment foundation. Shopkeepers of the 33 sealed shops paid 50% of the rent arrears. The revised rental is effective from July 1, 2016,” said Ravi. He added, “Final notices shall be issued to the rest of the shopkeepers in the municipal market.”
A staff shall be shaped by the office of the Commissioner of Municipal Administration (CMA) to study the matter additional.
Mustafa, president, Ooty municipal market merchants’ association, told TOI: “Normally, there is a revision in rent each three years by 15% but even so 18% surcharge on it. But, now the renewed rental pattern is very exorbitant.”
A yearly rental of Rs 2 crore from all of the shops in market has now been revised at Rs 13 crore, from which we seek substantial relief, he added.
He said, “Ooty municipal market is more than a century old. We had been operating the malls there since from our ancestral period. Hence, we seek reasonable attention in revising the rental value”.
With other sizes of plinth area, there are round 1,327 shops positioned throughout the Ooty municipal market but even so 200 more shops in numerous complexes positioned in more than a few places in the the city. According to the municipal officers, the municipality spends nearly Rs 14.5 lakh per thirty days to wash the garbage throughout the market area.
All the malls out there downed their shutters to protest the municipality motion. Shopkeepers additionally staged an indication in front of the municipal office.
As consistent with a central authority order, there must be an building up of 15% in rent payable to the municipality by the merchants for each three years ranging from July 2007. The municipality additionally must renew the lease agreement with a new rental pattern as prescribed by the PWD from July 2016. The rental quantity must be fixed for each and every shop in line with plinth area.
“We adopted the federal government order and issued notices to the malls falling beneath the municipality regulate for a new rental pattern prescribed by the PWD. Final notices were issued to 400 shops out of 1,589 shops in the municipal market and outside the market area,” Ooty municipal engineer and commissioner in-charge C Ravi said.
He said, “Out of 53 shops for which the final date lapsed for paying the rental, 33 shops were sealed on Tuesday with police protection. We couldn’t seal the rest of the malls as shopkeepers accrued and staged a protest.”
Braving the rain, round 500 shopkeepers accrued in front of the Ooty municipal office and staged an indication. A gathering took place between municipal officers and office-bearers of the municipal market merchants’ association. Later, the malls out there were opened in the afternoon.
“We have requested the merchants to pay the revised rental due in installment foundation. Shopkeepers of the 33 sealed shops paid 50% of the rent arrears. The revised rental is effective from July 1, 2016,” said Ravi. He added, “Final notices shall be issued to the rest of the shopkeepers in the municipal market.”
A staff shall be shaped by the office of the Commissioner of Municipal Administration (CMA) to study the matter additional.
Mustafa, president, Ooty municipal market merchants’ association, told TOI: “Normally, there is a revision in rent each three years by 15% but even so 18% surcharge on it. But, now the renewed rental pattern is very exorbitant.”
A yearly rental of Rs 2 crore from all of the shops in market has now been revised at Rs 13 crore, from which we seek substantial relief, he added.
He said, “Ooty municipal market is more than a century old. We had been operating the malls there since from our ancestral period. Hence, we seek reasonable attention in revising the rental value”.
With other sizes of plinth area, there are round 1,327 shops positioned throughout the Ooty municipal market but even so 200 more shops in numerous complexes positioned in more than a few places in the the city. According to the municipal officers, the municipality spends nearly Rs 14.5 lakh per thirty days to wash the garbage throughout the market area.
33 shops in Ooty municipal market sealed
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