Even as the MCD plans to carry out a survey of all the buildings in unauthorised and unauthorised regularised colonies to check their strength across the city, it is finding difficult to garner funds for the same.
However, it said that once a building was identified as dangerous then its owner will have to shell out the money needed for retro-fitting.
Municipal commissioner K.S. Mehra on Wednesday told reporters that following the Lalita Park incident, in which 70 people lost lives, a citywide survey was necessary. He, however, said that it was yet to be decided on who will fund the survey and how. Most likely, it would be a phase-wise exercise spread over several months. Mr Mehra also said that once the building was identified as “dangerous” in the survey, a team from the Central Building Research Institute, Roorkee, would be informed and its opinion will be taken on the possibility of retro-fitting.
“If retro-fitting is possible for that particular building, the entire cost of the exercise will have to be borne out by the owner,” he said. The exercise would entail house-to-house checking of lakhs of buildings existing in more than 1,200 such colonies that would require large sum of money, which the cash-strapped MCD may not be able to garner immediately.
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Sealing in Paharganj suspended
AGE CORRESPONDENT
NEW DELHI
Nov. 24: The MCD has given seven days to more than 20 owners of the guesthouses and hotels in Paharganj, who have not submitted their documents related to conversion and parking charges, to do the same. If they fail to do so, the civic body was likely to resume legal action against them. It had on Tuesday sealed two guesthouses and one hotel after they failed to file a satisfactory reply to the showcause notices issued to them on the matter.