KMC to demolish unsafe structured buildings

 Kolkata civic body has decided to demolish ‘highly insecure’ buildings which have become vulnerable in the monsoon. Mayor Firhad Hakim announced this at the civic body’s monthly meeting on Saturday. Hakim was replying to a query from Prakash Upadhyay, a Congress councillor, who sought to know about the fate of insecure buildings across the city. The mayor said that the civic body would take care of the rights of the tenants and ensure that no tenants are evicted. “In most cases, tenants die every time an insecure building collapses because. The residents insist to stay in the dilapidated buildings and seldom move out in fear of losing the property,” Hakim said. Hakim conceded that it was becoming extremely difficult for the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) buildings department officials to protect several dilapidated buildings which have grown old and developed major cracks. “We don’t want loss of lives following collapse of insecure buildings — particularly in monsoon. I have asked the buildings department officials to identify extremely vulnerable buildings and demolish those at the earliest to save the lives of the inmates,” Hakim said.