After a major fire was reported late on Thursday night at third floor of Vindhyachal Bhavan, where secretariats of different departments are situated, senior officials visited the sited on Friday morning to gauge the loss.
Senior officials were seen visiting the spot frequently to gauge the loss of the property and important files possessing records. Additional Chief Secretary and Development Commissioner of Panchayat and Rural Development Aruna Sharma told that in the fire nothing major loss has been reported. The records which are damaged have been stored at other levels also and will make it easier to retrieve data of the damaged records.
Additional Chief Secretary Sharma told that three-member team comprising Additional Commissioner Finance and joint Commissioner Establishment has been formed to assess damage to files and records by fire in D-2 section. The team is assessing the damage and preparing a list of damaged and undamaged files.
Effort will be made to reconstruct files destroyed in fire through records available in computers. The floor houses offices of Panchayat and Rural Development Department, Rural Engineering Services and Development Commissioner. Senior police officials have also visited the building and have inspected the conditions of the building and other structures damaged in the fire.
Deputy Inspector General of Police Sreenivasa Varma told that investigation in the matter has been ordered and the experts would be dealing with the issue and will provide details of the reason behind the fire. Earlier, sources claimed that important documents, electronic equipments and furniture were gutted in the fire.
Around 20 fire tender vehicles were rushed to the spot and it took around five hours to pacify the fire. He fire in the secretariat, after at the State Mantralaya has posed serious threat to the security of the important buildings in the State capital.