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Renovation enactment is underway astatine Shalimar Mall. (Express Photo by Kamleshwar Singh)
With a facelift, Panchkula’s archetypal promenade is acceptable to marque a instrumentality adjacent year. Shalimar mall, which was primitively opened with overmuch fanfare successful 2009, was closed down successful 2015 pursuing a bid of controversies.
Innate Aggarwal, authorised typical of the mall, told The Indian Express that the promenade is being relaunched with a “new concept”.
“A facelift is being fixed and the full gathering is being redesigned,” helium added.
“We person begun the redesigning of the mall. We expect to relaunch it by the 2nd 4th of adjacent year. It should beryllium acceptable by then.”
Aggarwal said they are readying to bring caller brands and a caller conception which volition beryllium aboriginal revealed.
Spread implicit 8,400 quadrate yards successful the bosom of the city, Shalimar was Panchkula’s archetypal mall. It opened with conscionable the cinema and without immoderate shops, and had lone a fewer takers. After its inauguration successful 2009, each 100 shops successful the promenade kept lying vacant.
From NoC to fraud allegations: Shalimar a kid of controversies
One of the large controversies that came to the fore was erstwhile astir 120 store owners alleged they were cheated by the owners successful 2015. They alleged that the steadfast committed a fraud of Rs 70 crore.
Subsequently, a lawsuit was lodged against the owners, pursuing which constabulary arrested the promenade proprietor R K Aggarwal and his wife.
The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) was tasked to analyse the case.
The complainants alleged that they were promised shops successful Shalimar Mall, for which they invested astir Rs 70 crore. However, neither they were handed implicit shops, nor their wealth was returned.
In different occupation that the promenade faced successful 2015, the municipal corp (MC) held backmost its yearly occurrence no-objection certificate (NOC) owed to non-payment of spot taxation of Rs 4 crore.
The movie antagonistic excessively was closed for sometime and employees moving the antagonistic and the information employed successful the promenade were sent packing.
Two representatives of the promenade had besides met past politician Upinder Kaur Ahluwalia, requesting her not to seal the promenade and springiness them immoderate clip for the payment.
The promenade landed successful occupation again erstwhile the Electricity Department chopped the powerfulness proviso to it doubly successful 2015 pursuing its nonaccomplishment to wage bills worthy lakhs of rupees. The movie section, however, continued to relation with the assistance of a generator.
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