Workshop held to prevent fire in IT offices of Sector V

Kolkata: Nabadiganta Industrial Township Authority (NDITA) will henceforth not allow construction of mezzanine floors in Salt Lake Sector V to prevent fire in institutional buildings.

A workshop to prevent fire in offices was held in the auditorium of Unnayan Bhavan on Friday. Sujit Basu, minister of state for Fire and Emergency Services, Director General of Fire Services Jag Mohan and Debashis Sen, chairman of NDITA, were present at the workshop. Representatives of various offices in Sector V also attended the workshop.

The Fire and Emergency Services department will provide six more motorcycles fitted with firefighting equipment to NDITA, taking the total strength of the fleet to 10. The motorcycle fleet will tackle fire in buildings situated on narrow roads. NDITA discussed the key issues that have come up in the fire audit it had conducted on buildings. It was found that many IT offices in Sector V had constructed mezzanine floors to expand the offices. These floors pose a serious hazard and hence NDITA has decided not to allow construction of mezzanine floors in institutional buildings anymore.

It was also found that the computer servers in IT offices run 24x7 and only one AC is kept in the server rooms, which is not enough. The AC machine becomes hot, leading to electrical short circuits which cause fire. NDITA has urged the representatives of the IT firms to keep two ACs in the server rooms from now.