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PMC to draft rules for retaining, compound walls

Friday, 21 June 2013 12:20 administrator
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The Times of India             21.06.2013

PMC to draft rules for retaining, compound walls

PUNE: The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) will draft guidelines for the construction of retaining and compound walls to avoid accidents like the one at Dattawadi on June 16, Mahesh Pathak, Pune municipal commissioner, said on Thursday.

Three women were killed when the retaining wall of a newly-built housing society came crashing down near Dattawadi on Sinhagad Road on Sunday night after heavy rain. Police said the wall had weakened due to continuous rain that had lashed the city over the weekend.

Responding to questions about the civic body's plan of action to prevent such accidents, Pathak, at the general body meeting, said guidelines would be drafted to ensure better construction of retaining and compound walls.

"We have discussed the issue with structural engineers and suitable guidelines will be drafted. A circular regarding the same will be issued soon," he said.

Replying on what the civic body has done to avoid instances of building collapse, Meanwhile, Vivek Kharawadkar, head of the building permission department, said PMC has given notices to dilapidated buildings and facilitated the eviction of residents from such dwellings.

Elected members demanded action against PMC officials who failed to check the quality of construction of the building at Dattawadi.

The Dattawadi police on Monday booked the builder, contractor and the site engineer of the building and charged them with culpable homicide not amounting to murder.

 

NMC marks new space for flower vendors

Friday, 21 June 2013 12:18 administrator
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The Times of India             21.06.2013

NMC marks new space for flower vendors

NASHIK: The Nashik Municipal Corporation has marked pitches for 45 flower vendors from Saraf Bazaar near the new vegetable market in front of the Ayurveda College in Ganeshwadi, Panchavati. They are to be shifted to the new location, shortly. The shifting of the Phool Bazaar to the new location is expected to ease the traffic congestion in the Saraf Bazar area.

Municipal officials, including commissioner Sanjay Khandare, city engineer Sunil Khune and mayor Yatin Wagh, had visited the flower market and held talks with the office-bearers of the Flower Vendors' Association (FVA) on June 13.

The flower vendors agreed to the NMC's proposal to shift the flower market to a new location.

Khune said, "We have marked alignments at the new location along Godavari River for 45 flower vendors. They will be shifted there, shortly."

The decision to shift the flower market was taken to smoothen the traffic flow at Saraf Bazaar area, where frequent traffic jams have become a major matter of concern for the administration.

Krishna Kumar Mali, president flower vendors' association, said: "We have not yet received the allotment letters from the NMC. We will shift to the new location when we get it. We are happy that we will have our own flower market."

 

NMC sets deadline to remove illegal Wockhardt structures

Friday, 21 June 2013 12:17 administrator
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The Times of India             21.06.2013

NMC sets deadline to remove illegal Wockhardt structures

NAGPUR: Nagpur Municipal Corporation's Dharampeth zone on Thursday issued notice to Maharashtra Rashtrabhasha Sabha over illegal construction of 1095.79 square metre on its land leased out to Wockhardt Hospital.
The sabha has been told to remove the unauthorized structure within 24 hours, failing which the NMC's anti-encroachment squad would demolish it under section 53 of Maharashtra Regional Town Planning Act, assistant municipal commissioner Rajesh Karade told TOI.

Sources said in April 2012, the NMC had served a notice to the sabha for not adhering to the sanctioned building plan in the construction of the multi-storey Wockhardt Hospital on its land near Shankar Nagar square. The sabha has leased out a major portion of its land to the hospital.

As per sanctioned plan, the five-storey hospital should have had a parking lot on the ground floor. In reality, the hospital's lobby and reception occupy the ground floor. The parking lot has been constructed in front of the building in violation of the sanctioned plan. Besides, the sabha's office at the ground floor behind the hospital is also illegal, said Karade, adding, it too, will be demolished.

Footfalls to the hospital are more but due to lack of parking space, two and four-wheeler drivers are forced to park vehicles on North Ambazari road, creating frequent traffic jams.

Illegal construction was also found on the fourth and fifth floors. On the fourth floor, the hospital carried out illegal construction of around 102 square metre on the south and east sides. On the fifth floor, the entire 120 square metre temporary tin construction is illegal.

To evade action, a revised building plan was submitted to the NMC's town planning department in 2012. But, one of the trustees of the sabha, Shantaram Patil, had raised an objection with the then municipal commissioner Sanjeev Jaiswal, which forced the department to reject the revised building plan.

The hospital has also not applied for occupancy and completion certificates. As per rules, NMC is supposed to issue occupancy certificate under section 280 (3) (a) which certifies that the building or establishment is safe and completion certificate under section 280 (I) (ii) of CNC Act.

Replying to RTI queries raised by a city-based NGO - Citizen's Forum for Equality - the public works department of Dharampeth zone had earlier admitted that the hospital had neither obtained completion certificate nor the department had issued occupancy certificate. 

 
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