The Indian Express 15.10.2013
VMC adds new clauses for builders after twin building crash
The collapse of a low-rise residential colony in Vadodara’s Tandalja
area late last month has heightened the level of concern within the
Vadodara Municipal Corporation, which has now made it mandatory for real
estate developers to fulfil the new clauses before initiating building
projects.
This would make it difficult for city builders to get fresh
clearance, and in turn delay projects of around Rs 500 crore that are
already in the pipeline. Apart from the requirements, which include
report of test on soil samples collected from the site and reports from
structural engineers and architects working on the project, newer
clauses have been added by the civic body that makes it mandatory for
builders to get projects executed by a qualified civil engineer and a
supervisor who are registered with VMC, the new resolution also requires
the developers to submit report on their own qualification in order to
get the project cleared. Members of the Confederation of Real Estate
Developers’ Association in Vadodara have raised objections to this,
while maintaining that this might affect projects that are currently in
the pipeline.
While VMC has only sought qualification of builders, it has not clarified if the builder requires to be a technical person.
“VMC has sought the builders’ qualification. It is not clear if
the civic body expects builders to be technically qualified too,” CREDAI
president Vadodara, Vipul Thakkar said.
