In a tragic fire incident in Mundka, in which 30 lives were lost, the fire broke out due to a short circuit, the North Delhi Municipal Corporation (North DMC) Commissioner on Saturday wrote a letter to the Additional Commissioner of Narela Zone, asking him to file a detailed report on the following incident in the next 48 hours.
According to the North DMC Commissioner's letter, an unfortunate incident of fire broke out in the Mundka area on 13/05/2022 wherein many human lives were lost and many other persons got injured. It is learnt that the fire reportedly broke out due to short circuit.
“The Additional Commissioner l/c Narela Zone is hereby directed to submit a detailed report of the above incident within 48 hours indicating on the following aspects, type of the area i.e. either residential, lal dora, agriculture; where the said building is located, tentative year of the construction of the building, tentative height of the building, in-case the building is old or new building i.e. any on-going construction, whether building plan sanctioned or not. If not, the reasons or details thereof,” it stated.
“The purpose for which the building was being used, either the said purpose is permissible or not, in fact there. is any No Objection Certificate (NOC) from fire department obtained by the occupier or not, whether factory license, trade Licence or any other permission was obtained by the occupier of the building, or not. if yes, the details thereof, if conversion charges, property tax or other municipal dues paid, if any, and the details thereof, whether any show-cause notice or other penal action taken against the building in the past for any type of violation, whether there is any kind of lapse on the part of any municipal official of North DMC and the recommended action for the same, if any,” it said in a statement.
The letter further stated that this matter should be treated as a top priority. Meanwhile, the North DMC commissioner also wrote letters to all six zones' deputy commissioners and additional commissioner of the factory licensing department to prevent these kinds of incidents in the future.
The letter stated, “in order to prevent recurrence of such tragic and unfortunate incidents, all the Zonal Dy. Commissioners of North DMC are hereby directed that a detailed survey of the areas falling under their respective zonal jurisdiction be carried out by constituting inter-departmental teams of officers/officials to find out whether any industrial/prohibited activity is going-on in non-conforming areas.”
“It is hereby directed that in case of detection of any prohibited/industrial activities in non-conforming areas, Notices as per relevant provisions of the DMC Act, 1957 be issued immediately to all such units, and the relevant punitive action be taken forthwith against such premises including against the owner/occupiers of the premises as per the provisions of the law in a time-bound manner,” it stated. “This exercise must be completed within 10 days, and an Action Taken Report be submitted to the Additional Commissioner, l/c Factory Licensing Department,” the letter said.
“It is hereby directed that the factory licensing department shall give seven days time to factory owners in conforming/provisional conforming areas to either get the new online factory license or online renewal, as the case may be, along with NOC from the Fire Department to be uploaded on the online portal of North DMC,” the letter said.
“In case of failure to obtain the online new factory license or online renewal (along with NOC from the Fire Department) by industrial units operating in conforming/provisional conforming areas, necessary action as per relevant provisions of the DMC Act be taken in a time-bound manner,” the letter said.
“This exercise must be completed within 15 days, and necessary assistance from Zonal Dy. Commissioners may be taken for the required survey to be carried out by the factory licensing department,” the letter further added.