New Delhi:
The Delhi authorities have accredited amendments to its constructing bylaws banning rooftop in addition to basement kitchens and stopping the issuance of hearth protection certificates to visitor houses having greater than 4 floors, days after a large blaze at a hotel in Karol Bagh killed 17 human beings.
According to the amendments, the owners of visitor homes will put up floor plans indicating the use of each floor to the Delhi Fire Services while making use of no-objection certificates. An inter-departmental meeting chaired by the Urban Development Minister Satyendar Jain has accredited the amendments in the Delhi Building Bye-Laws 2016 to install region higher fireplace safety measures in the country-wide capital.
Special directives were given regarding the usage of rooftops, basements, passages, and exit routes for curtailing the spread of hearth in public buildings via the amendments. We have to strictly make sure that no one dies at some stage in such fireplace mishaps in the town,” Mr. Jain stated at the same time as speaking approximately the amendments on Friday. The lethal fire at Hotel Arpit Palace in Karol Bagh on February 12 had killed 17 human beings and injured three others.
The FIR had said a brief makeshift made of inflammable cloth was erected on the rooftop for the kitchen, which becomes unauthorized similarly, the kitchen within the basement become also running illegally. The authorized amendments to the constructing bye-laws say, “No kitchen may be allowed on rooftops or basements. No cooking hobby of any kind may be authorized on the rooftop or basement.
COMMENT
“Storage of inflammable material will not be allowed on the rooftops. No transient roofing over the roof or terrace using FRP or any inflammable cloth could be allowed.”
