NDMC orders extensive survey of old buildings

The 50-year-old dilapidated four-storeyed building, which collapsed on Saturday in Tulsi Nagar, was under the Karol Bagh Zone of the corporation.

In a damage control mode after the incident, NDMC Commissioner Praveen Gupta today convened a meeting of additional commissioners, deputy commissioners of all the six zones and senior engineers of the civic body.

‘The commissioner directed the officials to conduct an extensive survey of old buildings and identify dangerous ones among them,’ NDMC Public Relations Officer Yogendra Singh Mann said.

Mann said, the commissioner further directed them to issue ‘eviction notices’ to the owners of those buildings, which are found ‘sensitive for habitation’.

Ten people including three women and five children were killed and two others injured when the 50-year-old dilapidated four-storeyed building collapsed in the congested area in north Delhi.

An assistant engineer and a junior engineer of NDMC’s Karol Bagh zone were suspended and an inquiry has been ordered into the incident in Inderlok area.

Recently, three persons were killed and 12 others injured when a three-storey under-construction building collapsed in Sadar Bazar area.

With two collapse incidents in north Delhi in the last one month, and unauthorised constructions being considered as a major cause for such tragedies, Gupta also asked the officials to be vary of such violations.