coimbatore officials from the town planning department of the city corporation closed 12 shops on monday for selling tobacco items within 100m of schools and collegesa few pockets in the north zone and the west zone of the city corporation come under the rural police limits a drive was carried out there based on the instruction from collector kranti kumar pati two teams consisting of highways revenue and police officials were led by town planning officers babu and vimala babus team closed two shops near a higher secondary school at kalveerampalayam and two shops near the government middle school at maharani avenue in the west zone vimalas team shut down eight shops operating near the government iti on mettupalayam road and kongu nadu arts and science college and a government school at vellakinar in the north zonecorporation commissioner m prathap on tuesday said the drive was only restricted to schools in rural police limits that come under the city corporation limits a similar drive will be carried out in the city police limits soona survey is already underway in the city to identify shops within 100m of schools and colleges that are violating the tobacco rule crackdowns will start soon he saidanother corporation official said during the mondays inspection they found that shopkeepers were selling tobacco items to school children although knowing that it was illegal