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Expressing daze implicit 1,400 shops having been enactment up connected the Marina beach, the Madras High Court connected Friday suggested the fig could beryllium brought down considerably by permitting merchantability of lone eatables, toys, fancy goods and souvenirs and not immoderate different item.
A Division Bench of Justices R. Suresh Kumar and A.D. Jagadish Chandira granted clip till January 8 for the Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) to taxable a revised draught program with respect to the fig and the quality of shops that could beryllium permitted connected the beach.
After taking enactment that the GCC had projected to make 3 bluish emblem areas connected the full agelong of the formation and forestall hawkers successful those areas, the judges suggested that 1 much bluish emblem country could beryllium created connected a immense grade of astir 35 acres wherever stray cattle were recovered to beryllium grazing down the mausoleums of assorted leaders.
The judges recorded that GCC Commissioner J. Kumaragurubaran had readily accepted their proposition for instauration of different bluish emblem country during a idiosyncratic inspection conducted by them connected December 22 and besides informed them that 1 of the bluish emblem areas had already been established by providing facilities specified arsenic play country for children, seats and recliners for the aged and by creating a bamboo fencing astir the place.
During the inspection, the judges had expressed interest implicit a immense fig of shops having been permitted connected the formation down the labour statue for a magnitude of astir 280 metres from the work roadworthy towards the precocious tide zone. In a study submitted earlier the tribunal connected Friday, the GCC said, a store number representation created done drone survey had identified 1,980 shops located connected the beach. However, Advocate General P.S. Raman told the tribunal that the existent fig of shops were lone 1,417.
The judges said the quality of the shops that could beryllium permitted connected the Marina formation could beryllium restricted since the formation was not a buying promenade oregon buying bazaar but lone a recreational area.
