KOLKATA: The Garden Reach building collapse has prompted the BMC to have a rethink on how to tackle unauthorised buildings mushrooming in Salt Lake and Rajarhat-Gopalpur.
Sources from BMC said the civic body planned to form special teams for each of the six boroughs to inspect if the upcoming buildings were being constructed according to civic rules.
Each of the teams will be led by a sub-assistant engineer. The BMC officials have been holding a series of meetings to plan how to assess the number of unauthorised structures in the area and the action to be taken.
BMC chairman Sabyasachi Dutta on Wednesday said there was a lack of proper intent among the civic authorities on taking action against illegal buildings in the BMC area. “I had earlier written to the BMC mayor and commissioner. No action-taken report has been submitted to me. Only some have been served stop-work order,” Dutta told TOI on Wednesday. BMC mayor Krishna Chakrabarty could not be contacted.
Civic authorities said earlier, self evacuation and demolition notices were sent to developers of 322 unauthorised buildings, but officials said the instructions were not followed.
Apart from those, the BMC lodged around 150 FIRs against unauthorised buildings, mostly in Rajarhat-Gopalpur, in the past year. Officials said they faced fierce opposition when they tried to raze the structures.
