Alok says: For the first time in its history
BMC ( Mumbai Municipal Corporation ) has shown wisdom and courage by filing
this PIL in Bombay High court for the first time in its over 100 years. They
are blaming openly by giving facts that how police is not using powers which
are bestowed upon them and avoiding to take precautionary steps and finally
many innocent lives are lost when dilapidated buildings fall. So much so, but
will someone file a PIL against government of Maharashtra and BMC for not
farming a healthy practical policy so that buildings are redeveloped much
before they become risky and uninhabitable. Shockingly we see so many buildings
with props and in bad condition as government has introduced all bad laws like
anarchic and ancient Rent act which discourage reconstruction…….And then they arrest landlords at least buildings of landlords
have survived two to three times more then built by builders, BMC, MAHADA etc..
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BMC blames Maharashtra govt, police for
rundown bldg crash deaths, tells HC they don’t do enough
Bhavika Jain,TNN | May 14, 2014,
12.58 AM IST
MUMBAI: Blamed often for the
deaths when ramshackle buildings crash, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation
(BMC) has filed a writ petition in the Bombay high court against the state
government, Mumbai police and the residents of a dilapidated building in the
suburbs who refused to move out.
The civic body made the state government and the police party to the petition, claiming they haven't done anything to solve the complex problem despite having the powers to do so.
It has demanded that the state government establish at the earliest a commission of building safety that was proposed in 1998, said officials.
"The commission was supposed to be a quasi-judicial authority whose writ would run over all the buildings in the city. Its orders would be binding. Today, the BMC's biggest problem is that whenever it declares a building is dilapidated based on a structural engineer's report, residents bring another, claiming the building is fine. It's in situations like this that the commission is needed," said a senior civic official.
The BMC has pointed out that under section 133 of the Criminal Procedure Code, the police can on its own evict people from dilapidated buildings. But now, the cops come only if the BMC undertakes an eviction.
"We have given a case study to the high court and asked them to give us guidelines about what should be done. It should not look like the BMC is not doing enough to prevent collapses," said another civic official. The BMC has submitted a set of draft guidelines.
The civic body has also asked the state government to give it more powers to evict people from private buildings. Currently, it has to use the disaster management Act and cut the water and electricity supply to force people out.
The BMC has pleaded urgency in the high court as they are facing problems during eviction and demolition of extremely dilapidated structures and has asked for a solution at the earliest.
So far, over 400 buildings that are more than 30 years old have been declared as dilapidated. In all, there are over 32,000 over-30 buildings and the number will increase as other reports come in.
The civic body made the state government and the police party to the petition, claiming they haven't done anything to solve the complex problem despite having the powers to do so.
It has demanded that the state government establish at the earliest a commission of building safety that was proposed in 1998, said officials.
"The commission was supposed to be a quasi-judicial authority whose writ would run over all the buildings in the city. Its orders would be binding. Today, the BMC's biggest problem is that whenever it declares a building is dilapidated based on a structural engineer's report, residents bring another, claiming the building is fine. It's in situations like this that the commission is needed," said a senior civic official.
The BMC has pointed out that under section 133 of the Criminal Procedure Code, the police can on its own evict people from dilapidated buildings. But now, the cops come only if the BMC undertakes an eviction.
"We have given a case study to the high court and asked them to give us guidelines about what should be done. It should not look like the BMC is not doing enough to prevent collapses," said another civic official. The BMC has submitted a set of draft guidelines.
The civic body has also asked the state government to give it more powers to evict people from private buildings. Currently, it has to use the disaster management Act and cut the water and electricity supply to force people out.
The BMC has pleaded urgency in the high court as they are facing problems during eviction and demolition of extremely dilapidated structures and has asked for a solution at the earliest.
So far, over 400 buildings that are more than 30 years old have been declared as dilapidated. In all, there are over 32,000 over-30 buildings and the number will increase as other reports come in.
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