Overview
- The Bhopal Municipal Corporation has issued roughly 6,600–7,158 notices so far and says it has identified more than 62,500 residential properties used for commercial activity with the total possibly reaching about 100,000.
- Traders held roadblocks, sit‑ins and a march that police stopped from reaching the chief minister’s residence, and they demanded regularisation, mixed land‑use permissions and abolition of Bhopal’s commercial licence fee.
- The BMC council met on Wednesday and approved proposals to lease vacant municipal properties while agreeing to send the licence‑fee abolition proposal to the state government and being told not to discuss enforcement because the Supreme Court is reviewing the matter.
- Enforcement has escalated with final 24‑hour warnings being served as deadlines expire and the corporation carrying out demolitions of unauthorised colony structures in Gaura and Barkhedi Kala with police support.
- Municipal officials say each case will be reviewed individually before any sealing and that the coming decisions by the state government and the Supreme Court will shape whether traders lose businesses or secure formal regularisation and fees relief.