The Delhi High Court's order to remove the 66 Tibetan shops under the Tibetan Refugee Market Association at Ladakh Dharamshala/Buddha Vihar and the Tibetan colony, Majnu Ka Tilla, in Delhi was postponed till 18 October 2006.

The yet another postponement of eviction of the Tibetan Colony was decided during a meeting of the Tibetan Assembly's vice chair Mrs. Dolma Gyari with Delhi chief minister Mrs. Shiela Dixit on 16 September.

Also present at the meeting were officials of the ministry of external affair, Secretary of the Delhi government, the heads of the Union Urban Development, Delhi Development Authority, Municipal Cooperation, and Land and Development Office. The Tibetan delegation at the meeting comprised of Mrs. Dolma Gyari, Mr. Tempa Tsering, representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in New Delhi, five deputies and head of the local Tibetan Welfare Office.

The meeting assured to compensate those 66 shop owners with new shops at Khybar Pass near Delhi University in future.

As per Delhi High Court's order, a report of the meeting was submitted to the Yamuna Removal of Encroachment Monitoring Committee, a committee established by the Delhi High Court specially to deal with the removal of unathorised encroachment from the bank of river Yamuna.

On 25 September, the vice chair and the Tibetan delegation will again meet with chief minister Mrs. Shiela Dixit and the Secretary of the Delhi government to continue the discussion.

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