meerut the owner of an under construction shop on the delhi road has flouted meerut development authoritys building norms on parking a citybased rti activist claimed according to mdas guidelines constructing a complex without a parking area of at least 30 meters is illegal however the activist has alleged that owner of beeco electronics has violated this rule and the shop is being constructed without any interruption from mda earlier the shop was situated on the ground floor of the building about six months back it caught fire now as per the activist it is being reconstructed into a threefloor complex on the basis of its old ground floor map initially the mda had approved beeco electronics map for ground floor after it caught fire the mda has also approved its reconstruction map but in a reconstruction map the number of floors cannot be increased however the complex is being built with three floors and mda is not doing anything in spite of various complaints said puneet sharma the citybased rti activist the mda norms makes it mandatory for one to leave 200 meters space from the road in case of any construction that is being done on a state or a national highway beeco electronics is located on national highway58 as per norms it is compulsory to for the shop to have a 30 meters long parking area if any complex is constructed however sharma claimed that this rule is not being followed being located on a national highway the complex once constructed will also cause traffic problems as there will be no parking space around sumit sharma a city resident said there is already so much traffic on the road and if such a huge complex is setup the road will be occupied for parking of vehicles despite repeated attempts to contact vice chairman of mda rajesh kumar yadav he remained unavailable to comment on the issue in a media report published by toi in 2013 it was also brought to light that meerut tops the list with 259 illegal colonies in uttar pradesh