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Kolkata Municipal Corporation to issue certificates for tenants before demolishing dilapidated buildings

The Kolkata Municipal Corporation has decided to issue certificates containing the names of tenants before the civic body decides to demolish dilapidated buildings on the grounds of public safety in an effort to address the insecurity among a section of tenants living in unsafe buildings throughout the city. To guarantee that the tenants receive their fair portion of the space when the building is rebuilt, the certificate will be issued by an executive engineer of a borough.

TN City Desk

Updated Aug 18, 2022, 20:25 IST

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Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation has decided to issue certificates containing the names of tenants before the civic body decides to demolish dilapidated buildings on the grounds of public safety in an effort to address the insecurity among a section of tenants living in unsafe buildings throughout the city.

To guarantee that the tenants receive their fair portion of the space when the building is rebuilt, the certificate will be issued by an executive engineer of a borough. The policy, according to a senior official in the KMC buildings department, is intended to provide a sense of security to a group of tenants who frequently opt to remain in the outdated structures rather than moving to a safer location at the risk of their lives.

Tenants should feel more secure as a result of this measure. At all costs, deaths and injuries must be prevented.

The buildings department brass informed the KMC borough executive engineers to inform the tenants residing in the susceptible buildings throughout the city of the municipal plan of action after mayor Firhad Hakim granted the proposal the go-ahead.

"We are hopeful of receiving a good response after offering the tenants of dilapidated buildings this opportunity of recording their rights with our buildings department. This new scheme is expected to bring down the number of buildings collapse every monsoon," said a KMC buildings department official.

According to sources in the KMC buildings department, the civic body recently came up with a list of 150 structures that would need to be demolished in order to avert collapses after the borough executive engineers were ordered to compile a list of very unstable buildings in five boroughs.

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