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Explosive found near collapsed building
Thursday’s Nanakramguda building collapse incident has once again exposed the negligence of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation’s ground level staff.
Hyderabad: Thursday’s Nanakramguda building collapse incident has once again exposed the negligence of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation’s ground level staff.
The building that claimed five lives has been constructed in violation of all existing norms. Ironically, the G+6 structure that is diagonally parallel to the collapsed structure belongs to the same owner, Satyanarayana Singh.
In a shocking development, which is sending shock waves, an explosive has been found in the premises of the ongoing Sumadhura project.
According to the labourers at the site, the builder did not use any explosive to blast the rocks. This was contradicted by the locals, who pointed out that they had been hearing explosions for several days.
The impact was such that structures in the vicinity were vibrating.Singh is being accused of violating the norms for both of his buildings.
As per norms, a minimum space of three metres should be left in between two structures. If there was a proposal to construct a double cellar an additional 0.5 metres had to be left.
To construct a G+3 structure in 1,000 square metres, the building owner should seek the permission from GHMC circle office and for G+ 4 structures (1,000 square metres) the property should get approval from corporation zonal.
The property owners who construct G+5 and above should take permission from civic body's head quarters. But nothing of this sort was followed by the promoters of the building that collapsed.
A senior GHMC official told The Hans India that the collapsed G+6 structure has been constructed over 180 metres.
He said that the ongoing construction works have also damaged the building strength as both the buildings had double cellars with no space in between. To make it worse, permission was also not taken.
