new delhi south delhi municipal corporation sdmc is planning to make some changes in its policy of licensing meat shopsaccording to officials after the changes in the terms and conditions of granting a license for a meat shop the distance required between a religious place and a meat shop will be reducedcurrently the corporation specifies a minimum distance of 150 metres between a religious place and a meat shop which might be reduced to just 100 metres informed an official the file in this regard is with the commissioner of south corporationbk oberoi chairman of standing committee has directed the veterinary department of the corporation to finalise the proposed changes quickly and bring forth the matter for discussion in the next standing committee meetingthe corporation is also planning to reduce the minimum required area for two animal slaughter shops and a pork shop to 100 square feet which is currently 120 square feet and 150 square feet the corporation will also plan to reduce the minimum required height of the ceiling of a meat shop from 3 metres to 25 metres and add the provision of installing an air conditioner inside the shopaccording to oberoi the existing meat shops can continue operating and these changes will be applicable to new shops currently there are around 1600 meat shops in south corporation