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PG collapse in Delhi’s Satya Niketan: Who is responsible?
A DU PG collapse exposes the gap between Delhi's planning rules and real building safety. Watch this video to know more.
On September 6, a five-storey boys' Paying Guest (PG) accommodation collapsed in Satya Niketan, near Delhi University's South Campus, leaving seven people dead. This video looks beyond the single building to ask how the neighbourhood reached this point. Delhi has had a formal planning system since the DDA was set up in 1957 and the first Master Plan followed in 1962. Yet Satya Niketan has grown into a dense student housing hub. Officials say the collapsed building had permission for only the ground plus first floors. Ayush Anilal, an architect, studied the area for his thesis. He explains how intensely…
Performance report shows 5.3 below the average score of of Bangalore MLAs at 5.5 . Not an impressionable report. When the BBMP is controlled, admiinisterd and dominated absolutely by the BJP Corporators without let or hindrance by the decimitated Opposition Parties, the performance report of Basavangudi MLA in today’s TOI (30th October 2014) is in bad light. Performance should have been better in respect of cleanliness, garbage clearance and citizens’ amenities in the constituency (not building toilets and dharmic sabha halls in temples with MLA funds).