NASHIK: As directed by the Bombay high court Nashik Municipal Corporation on Thursday took a decision to reclassify the religious structures to determine the illegal ones. The list of these structures will be published in newspapers in a week’s time.After the list is published, citizens can raise objections and suggestions following which a hearing will be conducted.The HC recently ordered NMC to undertake this activity while hearing a PIL about 72 religious structures, which the petitioner claimed to be legal. All these structures are on open spaces and as per law 10 percent construction is permitted on open spaces.The meeting was held at the administrative level wherein details of the case were discussed with the new civic chief Radhakrishna Game . The civic chief was briefed about the issue.“We will be following the order of the high court. We decided the future course of action today. We will be reclassifying the illegal religious structures and will be publishing them for people to object or give suggestions. A hearing will be conducted wherein we will arrive at the appropriate solution,” said additional municipal commissioner Kishor Borde.After the hearing fresh list should be published. The religious organisations, petitioners and the court objected to NMC publishing the list only on its website and not categorising the shrines into A, B and C as per the GR. The entire procedure is expected to be completed in a month before decision to demolish the shrines is taken.Last Friday, representatives of various religious organisations met to discuss their stand on the issue. They decided not to let a single shrine be touched by NMC and that re-survey following all the procedures should be done.The petition was filed by Vinod Subhash Thorat and Kailas Dinkar Deshmukh on demolition of 72 religious structures and HC directed NMC to carry out a fresh exercise of identifying unauthorised religious structures in the city as per the government resolution.The GR of May 5, 2011 says that religious structures which can be duly regularized are classified as Class 'A'. The unauthorized religious structures which are creating obstacles on public roads, or for the law and order situation or contrary to the DC Rules, which cannot be regularized, are to be classified as Class B. The structures which can be relocated to some other suitable place are to be classified as Class 'C'. The meeting will discuss all these aspects.

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