Five years on Union Home Ministry recommendation to TN for amendments to Town and Country Planning Act to provide parameters for resisting natural calamities gather dust
C Shivakumar/ ENS
Chennai:
The previous DMK regime failed to implement the draft Tamil Nadu
Common Building Rules for urban bodies that calls for creation of
structural design review panel.
Sources told Express that the draft report was prepared and submitted
to the DMK government on 2009, which calls for structural design
review panel to study structural designs of buildings.
The regulation was to provide building parameters for resisting
calamities and this assumes significance as Chennai was re-designated
from Hazard II zone to Hazard III zone (greater vulnerability) in
2001.
The draft TNCBR was framed after Union Home Ministry’s expert
committee on May 2004 submitted recommendations seeking amendments in
the Town and Country Planning Act, Land Use Zoning Regulations,
Development Control Regulations and Building Bylaws in natural hazard
zones of India.
The draft Tamil Nadu Common Building Rules includes building bylaws
that provides for building parameters for resisting natural
calamities. However, it is now almost five years and the rules never
saw the light of the day.
High Court appointed monitoring committee member M G Deivasahayam
questions the delay in notifying the rules. “Such rules could have
enhanced the safety of buildings in the safety. But unfortunately due
to lobbying from the builders such rules are never implemented,” he
says.
Currently, CMDA relies only on the report of the structural engineer
of the builder but CMDA officials are not happy with it. “We were
earlier relying on the reports from structural engineer as
well as the site engineer who are bound by the license to do it. But
despite this, the building at Tower Height Project crashed,” a senior
CMDA official said.
“If the new norms as mentioned by Ministry of Home Affairs are
brought into place, CMDA would be forced to create a structural design
review panel consisting of senior structural engineers and Structural
design agency whosew duty will be to review and certify the design
whenever referred by CMDA. It also has provisions of issuing new
certificate in case of any changes in structural design,” a source
told Express.
Sources said that the AIADMK government was keen to have the
regulation in December 2013. It is learnt that CMDA was asked to have
a relook at the draft by consulting various stakeholders. “Currently
the process is on,” the source said.
A CMDA official said the new rules would be ready in the next 30 days
and it would be sent to the government for notification.
C Shivakumar/ ENS
Chennai:
The previous DMK regime failed to implement the draft Tamil Nadu
Common Building Rules for urban bodies that calls for creation of
structural design review panel.
Sources told Express that the draft report was prepared and submitted
to the DMK government on 2009, which calls for structural design
review panel to study structural designs of buildings.
The regulation was to provide building parameters for resisting
calamities and this assumes significance as Chennai was re-designated
from Hazard II zone to Hazard III zone (greater vulnerability) in
2001.
The draft TNCBR was framed after Union Home Ministry’s expert
committee on May 2004 submitted recommendations seeking amendments in
the Town and Country Planning Act, Land Use Zoning Regulations,
Development Control Regulations and Building Bylaws in natural hazard
zones of India.
The draft Tamil Nadu Common Building Rules includes building bylaws
that provides for building parameters for resisting natural
calamities. However, it is now almost five years and the rules never
saw the light of the day.
High Court appointed monitoring committee member M G Deivasahayam
questions the delay in notifying the rules. “Such rules could have
enhanced the safety of buildings in the safety. But unfortunately due
to lobbying from the builders such rules are never implemented,” he
says.
Currently, CMDA relies only on the report of the structural engineer
of the builder but CMDA officials are not happy with it. “We were
earlier relying on the reports from structural engineer as
well as the site engineer who are bound by the license to do it. But
despite this, the building at Tower Height Project crashed,” a senior
CMDA official said.
“If the new norms as mentioned by Ministry of Home Affairs are
brought into place, CMDA would be forced to create a structural design
review panel consisting of senior structural engineers and Structural
design agency whosew duty will be to review and certify the design
whenever referred by CMDA. It also has provisions of issuing new
certificate in case of any changes in structural design,” a source
told Express.
Sources said that the AIADMK government was keen to have the
regulation in December 2013. It is learnt that CMDA was asked to have
a relook at the draft by consulting various stakeholders. “Currently
the process is on,” the source said.
A CMDA official said the new rules would be ready in the next 30 days
and it would be sent to the government for notification.
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