new delhi even as a confused city went into panic mode over the sc order directing closure of big showrooms and shops in residential areas located on 80feet wide and more the mcd stayed mum on its future strategy while the corporation claims to be waiting for the copy of a written order delhiites on friday wanted to know who all will be targeted and who shall be sparedmeanwhile the bjp which sits in the opposition in the mcd lashed out at the ruling congress in the centre and state for delaying the implementation of the masterplan 2021 which allows mixed land use on roads that are 60feet wide the arguments of this sc case had ended in november the judgment has come now but the congress did nothing to push for the execution of the masterplan if that had happened things would not have come to such a pass bjp councillor vijender gupta allegedso what can the city expect in the days ahead with an accent on big fish the supreme court has ordered action against showrooms and shops on roads that are 80feet wide and above according to mcd officials on all such roads it would be difficult to find small shops that sell dailyuse things its the big showrooms that dot such roads like the ring road so for now the small shopkeepers are safeas far as nursing homes banks and guest houses that are allowed in residential areas under the masterplan are concerned they are safe if they meet the parameters under the law these organisations can open on a plot size of a minimum of 290 square metres and a maximum of 1000 square metres on a road that is 60 feet and above anything less than that is unacceptable however in areas categorised as special like walled city paharganj and karol bagh while the plot dimensions for nursing homes remain the same as for the general category the road can be 9 metres in this case for colonies like amar colony dayanand colony rajinder nagar and patel nagar the criteria is 135metre roads meanwhile all those shops running on roads that are under mixed landuse are in no danger mixed land use means that while commercial activity is allowed on the ground floor there are houses on the floor abovethough the draft masterplan 2021 states that mixed landuse may be permitted on residential plots on roads that are 60feet wide with prescribed development norms mcd point that this should not be mistaken to be a way to regularise all commercial stretches in delhi the dda follows a stringent procedure for giving approval to the roads proposed for mixed land use by mcd an mcd official said