Delhi BJP leader Praveen Shankar Kapoor on Monday demanded that the Municipal Corporation of Delhi carry out a survey of “weak” and “dangerous” buildings to prevent any untoward incident amid heavy rainfall in the city.
In a letter to MCD commissioner Gyanesh Bharti, Kapoor urged him to order a survey of weak and dangerous buildings in the national capital to prevent accidents that occur every year during and after monsoon.
He said, in view of the raging monsoon this year, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) should immediately conduct a real survey of the dangerous old buildings and shift those living in them to safer places so that any accident due to the collapse of buildings during the monsoon can be prevented.
The BJP spokesperson also claimed that the civic body surveyed the buildings in the past for the sake of it and that as recently as Sunday,
various incidents of house collapse, balcony collapse and school wall collapse were reported from Civil Lines, Mukundpur, Seelampur and Srinivaspuri regions of the city.
According to Kapoor, it is hilarious that only 57 buildings are in dangerous
category in Delhi as per the MCD survey.
