Building Collapse
Mumbai: The Maharashtra government seem not to be bothered about the issue of illegal buildings as no measures have been taken to implement a March 2009 order to set up special civic police stations and special courts across 22 municipal corporations to regulate unauthorized construction. Over 70 people lost their lives in a recent incident [...] Continue Reading »
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has passed on a mandatory rule to construct the houses leaving two-metre space from the adjacent buildings to it. The recent incident wherein the digging of basement lead to collapse of the adjacent building provoked MCD to pass this mandatory norm. Especially the residential sectors which are generally constructed [...] Continue Reading »
A four-storeyed building near Uttam Nagar Metro Station collapsed in west Delhi recently. It has been learnt that three people have been killed and around four persons were rescued in the building collapse. One of the senior police who reported to the incident immediately said that the families were surviving in one part of building [...] Continue Reading »
On behalf of government, court orders and the municipal authorities constantly warning the builders to pause the illegal construction, the same has been increasing. The similar act posed from one of the builder has resulted in a residential building being collapsed recently causing loss for the residents lives in Mumbai. This building was claimed to have [...] Continue Reading »
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) gets a clean chit for proving its carelessness in not taking up the demolition drive of the illegal constructions seriously in the entire city. This issue was raised after the Chandni Mahal building collapsed in Delhi two weeks ago and a report to the commissioner was submitted recently. However [...] Continue Reading »
The under-construction building which collapsed recently in Shalimar Bagh, Ghaziabad was built by the construction firm, Kranti Associates. Police is invetigating the case and came to conclusion that- builder’s elder son had not only ordered his workers “to use substandard cement, but also did not allow sufficient curing of the cement to save on electricity” [...] Continue Reading »
