Chennai:
George Town All Merchants Welfare Association has slammed Chennai
Corporation for de-sealing a dilapidated structure which resulted in
the death of two people.
Addressing a press conference here, the association general secretary
U Khader Sait alleged that the dilapidated structure located in
Malayaperumal Street at Old Kothawalchavadi opposite to
Kanigaparameswari Women’s College Entrance was sealed on November 17 a
day after it collapsed.
“But the building was desealed the next day,” the association alleged
demanding that all the dilapidated buildings that are unsafe and on
the verge of collapse should be razed.
He said that till now six deaths have happened due to building
collapse in the last one month as such Chennai Corporation should raze
unsafe buildings.
The association stated that Chennai Corporation has identified a
nearly 150 dilapidated unsafe buildings and 80 per cent are located in
busy Georgetown area,” he said.
Interestingly, the association has already moved petitions to Chennai
corporation to initiate action against the unsafe structures. Sait
said that more than two to three lakh people visit Georgetown which is
located in the heart of the city for its wholesale market, hardware,
food items, paper and stationary business.
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