‘30 Kolkata buildings are tilted, 90% due to faulty engineering’: Mayor Firhad Hakim

The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) volition behaviour a structural stableness trial to find the grade of the damage, officials said.

On Friday morning, section radical noticed that a four-storey level gathering connected Topsia’s Loknath Bose Garden Road had tilted. They assertion that the location was built 7 to 8 years agone and pointed fingers astatine the lacunae of the civic body. Councillor of section ward fig 59 Jolly Bose visited the location and spoke to the residents connected Friday morning. “If you person immoderate difficulties, we are there,” she said.

Kaushik Das, a section resident, said, “There are 2 flats broadside by broadside on the constrictive road. There is nary abstraction betwixt the 2 houses. A four-storey location has been allowed (to travel up there).”

On Thursday morning, the locals noticed that an flat successful Netajipalli of Jagatpur successful ward nary 23 of the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation had collapsed. Local radical complained that the gathering was constructed by “filling up a pond”. It had been seen that the gathering was gradually leaning towards the gathering beside it.

In the Tangra incident, nary 1 was surviving successful the gathering arsenic it was nether construction, but the masons had to beryllium evacuated. While nary injuries were reported, panic dispersed among residents of neighbouring high-rise buildings.

Before that, an flat collapsed successful ward fig 99 of Baghajatin connected January 14. In presumption of these incidents, the gathering section of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation has travel nether scrutiny. However, erstwhile Hakim was asked astir this, helium said, “Shall the municipal corp basal with a bamboo and erect it?”

The incidents person raised superior concerns astir the information of buildings successful the city. Experts constituent to a deficiency of due piling enactment and inadequate ungraded investigating arsenic the large contributing factors down the structural failures.

Meanwhile, Hakim has directed the issuance of a show-cause announcement to the licensed gathering surveyor progressive successful the Tangra incident.