Fire Safety
The AP State Disaster Response and Fire Services department has planned to tighten fire safety norms for the non-high-rise buildings. Hence, owners of non-high-rise buildings would have to obtain a license from the department for their property and have to pay a fee after providing fire-fighting equipment on their premises. The department will check the [...] Continue Reading »
Fire accidents are being reported with unfailing regularity as the buildings and apartments in India are not following proper fire safely rules. Some major accidents happened in the past such as Uphaar fire tragedy in Delhi or Kumbakonam school fire in Tamil Nadu or AMRI hospital fire in West Bengal or the Carlton Towers fire [...] Continue Reading »
Bangalore city’s RWAs and urban experts took part in an interactive session organized by Namma Bengaluru Foundation here on Saturday.The experts panel comprising ABIDe member Ashwin Mahesh, Solid Waste Management Round Table member Meenakshi Bharat and Champion of Gandhigiri protest (Sachidanand Nagar RWA) Shankar Prasad discussed various civic issues of the city right from garbage [...] Continue Reading »
In 2007, CMDA and corporation officials conducted a survey of commercial multistoried buildings on North Usman Road, South Usman Road, Ranganathan Street, GN Chetty Road, Thyagaraya Road and Venkatanarayana Road in T Nagar, Chennai and found that 64 had violated norms and didn’t file applications under any regularisation scheme. “Many of them had an FSI [...] Continue Reading »
Karnataka will probably be the first state in the country to have a fire station on the secretariat premises. The fire station, to be set up at a cost of Rs 1.25 crore, will also serve safety needs of the Karnataka high court and MS Buildings. The need for a fire station was felt many [...] Continue Reading »
The Delhi Fire Services (DFS) has asked hotels with more than 100 rooms, underground shopping complexes, buildings above 50 metres in height, district centres, oil and natural gas installations and outdoor stadium with more than 50,000 seating capacity to appoint fire safety officers under Section 29 of Delhi Fire Service Act. The building owners have [...] Continue Reading »
