Chandigarh Mar 22 PTI Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Tuesday recommended a CBI probe into the Chintels Paradiso building collapse in Gurugram which had claimed two livesWe will hand over the matter to the Central Bureau of Investigation CBI he said in the state assembly here Two women were killed after the dining room floor of a sixth-floor apartment at Chintels Paradiso in Sector 109 came down on February 10 triggering the collapse of roofs and floors directly under it till the first floorThe incident was brought to focus in the House after Khattar targeted the previous Congress government on some other issue leading to a heated argument between the ruling party and the oppositionKhattar said the previous Congress regime was hit by various scams At this former chief minister and Congress leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda asked Are they talking of corruption Corruption is rampant in this BJP regime and there has been one scam after another Khattar asserted that whenever any wrongdoing has come to the notice of the government it has acted on its own in a proactive manner and initiated action as deemed necessaryPointing towards Hooda who is the Leader of the Opposition Khattar said the Chintels Paradiso housing project was given the licence during the Congress rule If an offence has been committed by giving a license then arrest me replied HoodaLater the Haryana chief minister said the Chintels Paradiso matter will be given to the CBI for a probeOn Monday Haryana minister J P Dalal told the assembly that an FIR had already been lodged in connection with the incidentDays after the collapse the authorities had said that they would conduct a structural audit of four other towers to determine if they were safe for livingPTI SUN VSD SRY

Chandigarh Mar 21 PTI Weeks after two people died when a tower at Chintels Paradiso society in Gurugram partially collapsed Haryana Minister J P Dalal on Monday informed the state assembly that structural audit of buildings where complaints have been received will be conducted A part of the apartment had collapsed last month killing two women To look into the complaints pertaining to such buildings in Haryana a structural audit will be conducted and a committee of engineers from IIT will be constituted the minister said Besides this third party inspection will also be done In case of any issues with regard to buildings those responsible for any deficiencies will not be spared and strict action will be taken against them the Agriculture Minister said while replying to the Calling Attention motion during the ongoing budget session of state assembly here Congress Chiranjeevi Rao and some other opposition MLAs had raised the Chintels Paradiso incident and said that there are several complaints of sub-standard material used in multi-storey buildings in NCR region especially Gurugram Rewari and Faridabad Rao sought to know why no action was initiated based on the structural assessment report given by a Jamia Millia Islamia Professor that had declared the safety quotient of Chintels Paradiso apartment in Gurgaon as doubtful a year ago Rao and another Congress MLA Neeraj Sharma said many high-rise buildings in NCR region falling in Haryana lack adequate fire-fighting arrangements and no proper checks and balances are in place Dalal said an FIR had already been lodged in connection with the Chintels Paradiso society incidentDalal said draft structural safety regulations have been prepared which will ensure safety and quality of construction during construction phase at the time of grant of Occupation certificate and even after completion of project to monitor safety of structure in the inhabited building periodically After seeking objections and suggestions on the same the Structural Safety Regulation shall be finalised and notified for compliance of all concerned Such a mechanism is expected to ensure that high-rise buildings are structurally safer through stringent checks and independent third party audit he said PTI SUN VSD CK

New Delhi Feb 22 PTI The partial collapse of a tower at Chintels Paradiso housing project in Gurugram Haryana has exposed serious lapses in the working of both development authorities and real estate regulators in the state under the realty law RERA according to Forum For Peoples Collective Efforts FPCE FPCE an apex body for home buyers has demanded that development authorities and regulators under RERA should monitor the construction quality from the beginning of a project to fulfil their responsibilities of protecting the interest of home buyersTwo people had died in the partial building collapse incident that took place in Chinrels Paradiso on February 10 In another case a housing society in Gurugram comprising over 700 flats constructed by state-owned NBCC Ltd will be demolished after it was declared unsafe for habitationHome buyers spend their hard earned savings to buy house for life but in this case the collapse happened within four years of possession This has exposed the serious lapse on the working of both the development authorities and also the RERA authorities FPCE President Abhay Upadhyay told PTI on TuesdayReal estate developers are definitely to be blamed for poor construction quality but the onus also falls on these authorities he addedUpadhyay pointed out that many such cases have been witnessed in the last few years where chunks from roof have fallen but still no quality check measures were being undertaken by development authorities or by RERA authorities either during construction period or before possession is being offeredIssue of Occupation Certificate OC is now merely a formality rather than actual physical inspection which is mostly obtained through illegal means by builders Sadly the RERA authorities merely rubber stamp such certificates which certainly does not absolve them from their prime responsibility to protect the interest of home buyers he allegedThe FPCE President demanded that regulatory authorities under RERA should hire in-house technical team to check quality of constructionBoth development and RERA authorities should monitor the construction quality from the beginning of the project Upadhyay saidG Mohanty President of Apartment Owners Association NBCC Green View Gurugram blamed NBCC for poor constructionThey have admitted to doing poor construction and further ignoring our repeated pleas since last four years for taking measures to rectify the defects At this stage they shouldnt be allowed to take advantage of their own faults by using the district administration to throw us out of our homes and taking possession of the project he saidOur demand is that NBCC should refund the entire amount homeowners have paid with 15 per cent interest registration charges and court fees paid cost incurred on interior work as well as Rs 25 lakh compensation for subjecting home buyers to harassment and mental agony Mohanty saidVipin Tyagi resident of Jaypee Aman project in Noida requested the government and all departments concerned to conduct the structural audit of all the towers of Jaypee Aman societyAfter the recent incident of building collapse in Gurugram society resident of Jaypee Aman Sector 151 Noida are among the worried home buyers This is because of the deteriorating and neglected condition of towers within the society Tyagi addedNitin Prabhakar Shingote Founder of startup Propcheckup advised home buyers to do self visual inspection of the home or hire a home inspection company that does a thorough visual check of the flat for all kinds of defectsWe check for defects in windows electricals plumbing wall and ceilings etc If we notice larger cracks and other issues we bring in structural auditors to evaluate the buildings structural stability These structural auditors perform a series of tests to check the quality of the concrete and the quality of steel he added PTI MJH RAM

Gurugram (Haryana) [India], February 11 (ANI): Gurugram District Collector (DC) Nishant Yadav on Friday said that a total of three people were trapped under the debris of the housing complex where a portion of the roof of an apartment collapsed yesterday.

Gurugram (Haryana) [India], February 11 (ANI): One body has been retrieved and two people have been rescued so far in the housing complex in Gurugram, where a portion of the roof of an apartment collapsed, informed PK Tiwary, National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) official.

Gurugram (Haryana) [India], February 11 (ANI): Gurugram Police on Friday registered a case of negligence against the builder of Chintels Paradiso housing complex in Gurugram's Sector 109, where a portion of the roof of an apartment collapsed on Thursday evening.

Gurugram (Haryana) [India], February 10 (ANI): The roof of a residential highrise reportedly collapsed in Gurugram's Sector 109 on Thursday evening and several people are feared to be trapped in the incident.

Gurugram (Haryana) [India], February 10 (ANI): A portion of the roof of an apartment in Chintels Paradiso housing complex in Gurugram's Sector 109 collapsed on Thursday.