BHOPAL : The Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) administration demolished 80-year-old Kastya Trust building at Marwari Road on Tuesday. A portion of the three-storied building had already collapsed. BMC administration had served notices to the owners in the past.
The BMC administration has a long list of dilapidated building in the state capital. Every year, the administration completes a formality by serving notices on landlords and razing one or two buildings.
BMC has already listed some 400 structures for demolition. Buildings identified for demolition, are over four to five decades old, and they cannot be renovated.
Last year, a BMC employee had died when a part of a dilapidated residential structure collapsed over him near Durga Chowk in Talaiya area of the Old City. Afzal, 50, who was employed as watchman in the garden section of BMC, was going for duty around 7.45 in the morning, when he got buried under the rubble and died on the spot. Similarly, a couple had died when a portion of BRTS wall had collapsed on their house near Lal Ghati square.
Anti-encroachment cell in-charge Qmar Shaqib said, “It was a three-storied building and it was 80-year-old. It was dilapidated. BMC administration had served many notices in past but none of trustees turned up. Ultimately, the administration decided to raze the building.”
