Bengaluru: The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) informed the High Court that it will not allow any commercial activity in residential areas other than notified utility services. It also assured the court that its officials will act against violators in accordance with the law.
The notified utility services that have been approved for residential areas include petty shops, newspaper and stationery shops, milk booths, vulcanization shops, STD/Fax, internet, ATMs, bakeries and sweet shops, pathology labs, banks, consulting firms, and repair centres for electric, mechanical, and automobiles, etc.
The undertaking was submitted before the division bench of Chief Justice Prasanna B. Varale and Justice Ashok S. Kinagi, during the hearing of the PIL filed by the Wilson Garden Residents’ Welfare Association against commercial activity in residential areas.
In accordance with the orders, BBMP counsel V. Srinidhi submitted a report claiming that a team of officials had sealed 60 flower shops, as against 101 designated for performing commercial activities in residential areas of Wilson Garden. He said that the remaining 41 stores would be closed in two weeks.
