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MCDs find only 54 'dangerous' buildings so far

Last Updated 02 August 2016, 09:14 IST

The three municipal corporations in the city have been slack in conducting surveys to identity “dangerous buildings” under their respective areas. They carry out the survey once a year, before the monsoon season.

While the survey conducted by the North Delhi Municipal Corporation this year has found only 35 dangerous buildings so far in all the six zones, the East Delhi Municipal Corporation has surveyed 3,75,255 buildings this year and found two dangerous buildings and marked three complexes as “repairable”.

The South Delhi Municipal Corporation has identified 17 dangerous buildings falling under its jurisdiction so far this year.

Officials with the north and east civic agencies said that some wards have not been covered under the survey.

“The survey conducted this year has not covered all the wards under the North and East Corporations. So the number of dangerous buildings will go up once the remaining wards are surveyed,” said a senior official with the North Delhi Municipal Corporation.

The north civic agency has “fully demolished” only one dangerous building so far this year.

Last year, the north civic agency had found about 411 dangerous building in the survey.
In all, 3,36,170 buildings were surveyed by the North Delhi Municipal Corporation in 2015.
Officials said that apart from the annual survey, corporations do not have any monitoring mechanism to check dangerous buildings under their limits.

“The incidents of building collapse have been on the rise as illegal construction especially in the unauthorised colonies has increased many folds in the past couple of years,” said an official.

Last week, two persons were injured when a portion of a double-storey building had collapsed in Central Delhi’s Karol Bagh area.

A portion of the double-storey building called Pili Kothi, built in 150 square yard on Arya Samaj Road, had collapsed injuring two bystanders on Thursday last.

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(Published 02 August 2016, 09:14 IST)

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