Ulhasnagar: The collapse of the slab in the Paras building in Ulhasnagar has revealed how citizens are forced to live in risky malicious buildings.
The incident revealed that the 24-year-old bank employee Aakash Pottani (24), who died in the accident left the Paras building four months ago after Ulhasnagar Municipal Corporation (UMC) issued a notification to more than 2,000 buildings built in 1994-1996.
, which includes the Paras building, ask them to complete a structural audit.
A member of the Poptani family told Tii, “because the rent was high in Aakash’s new home, which was the only breadwinner in the family, caring for his parents and younger sister, shifting back to the paras buildings with his family.
Low here since they lived here on the PAGDI system “.
On Saturday at 10:30 aakash afternoon went to the bedroom to take clothes when the slab on the fifth floor where they stayed to fall on the fourth floor.
Seeing this, other family members fled the building.
But Aakash was stuck on the fourth floor because the owner had moved from home and locked.
Yuvraj Bhadane, Public Relations Officer UMC said, “The Paras Building is not on a dangerous list but because it was built in the period 1994-1996 where many buildings came using low-quality sand, notifications were issued for buildings among more than 2,000.
The structure asked them to get an audit Structural “.
The incidence of the construction of the Paras has brought a focus on the problem of dilapidated buildings in Ulhasnagar where citizens live in dangerous conditions.
There was an increasing demand that the government reselled regularization technical issues and accelerated the rebuilding of illegal buildings in the city.
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