Deccan Chronicle 09.07.2013
GHMC orders inspection of buildings aged 50 yrs or more
Hyderabad: Hours
after the City Light hotel building collapse, GHMC commissioner M.T.
Krishna Babu on Monday announced that joint teams from the engineering
and town planning wings will conduct an inspection of all the commercial
establishments in the city which are aged 50 years or more and are made
of lime and mortar with load bearing walls (no pillared buildings to be
checked in phase-I).
“This special drive
will be carried out from Tuesday as per the directions of CM N. Kiran
Kumar Reddy, who has also ordered an enquiry into the building collapse
incident,” he said.
However, Krishna Babu failed
to explain how the GHMC is going to identify the age of the building (50
years) as it does not have records of all buildings which are 50 years
old, and those which are made of lime mortar and standing with the
support of load-bearing walls and not pillars.
When
asked why the GHMC failed to identify City Light building as a
dilapidated structure, he said, “There are 20 lakh buildings in the city
and we cannot check each building from inside.”
