News: Structural audit of 22 highrises held up as builders yet to pay fee-18-01-2024
The structural audit of 22 highrise societies, ordered by the district administration last year, has been stuck for the past six months as their developers have failed to pay the fee for the survey. Now, the deputy commissioner is issuing notices to the developers warning them of legal action in case of further delay.
A total of 23 highrise societies were selected for the second phase of structural audit, but only one has paid the fee so far. Of the remaining 22 societies, the developers of six have not even shared the project drawings, without which an audit is not possible. Officials said the district administration and department of town and country planning (DTCP) have sent repeated reminders to the developers to no avail.
“Only one developer has deposited the money for the structural audit. Apart from this, till now, no builder or RWA has deposited money for the audit, due to which the structural audit has been completely stalled for the last six months,” a status report shared by district town planner (enforcement) Manish Yadav with deputy commissioner Nishant Yadav stated.
On the instructions of the deputy commissioner, who is also the
chairman of the structural audit committee, the DTP had sought drawings of the societies from the developers of these 23 societies, but drawings of only 16 projects were submitted. Raheja Atharva, Ansal Estella, Vatika G-21, SS Coralwood, SS Almeria, Satya Hermitage and Aloha haven’t submitted architectural drawings for the audit yet.
After getting the drawings, the empanelled consultants that will conduct the audit calculated the expenses and generated bills. They asked the developers to pay 50% of the fee for now, but none of them except NBCC — the developer of NBCC Heights — have deposited the amount.
DC Yadav said, “We are issuing notices to developers to deposit the drawings and fee for structural audit. We will expedite the process and action will be initiated against the developers and RWAs concerned.”Audits were ordered after a vertical collapse of five floors at Chintels Paradiso society in Sector 109 killed two residents in February 2022. The RWAs of around 55 societies had raised complaints, after which the district administration zeroed in on some of the apartment complexes that may need audit
