chennai taking a serious view of the submission by the state government that there is no statutory bar to opening tasmac outlets on farmland the madras high court on wednesday wondered whether the state would open such shops near courts and hospitals as the rules do not prohibit that eithera division bench of justice s manikumar and justice subramonium prasad made the observation while hearing a pil moved by nallaswamy seeking to close a tasmac outlet opened on agricultural land in erode districtwhen the plea came up for hearing the state submitted that so far there were 5198 tasmac shops functioning across the state of which 2728 are located in village panchayats counsel for the state submitted that the authorities had attained copies of building plan approval of 2536 such structures and that only 192 were yet to be collected this apart whenever objections are made by people against opening such shops in particular areas those complaints are immediately forwarded to the district authorities for perusal and immediate action counsel addedrecording the submissions the bench questioned whether such farmlands used for tasmac shops are duly reclassified to be used for commercial purpose as counsel sought time to obtain such information the bench directed the state to file a detailed report as to whether such lands are reclassified for commercial use the court then posted the plea to march 11 for further hearing