MCD orders survey of buildings with basement, hanging electricity wires

The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has ordered a survey of buildings with basements, open hanging wires and old barrels catering to the combined drainage system across the city in wake of the Rajinder Nagar coaching centre deaths.

The civic body has issued urgent preventive measures for compliance which includes ensuring separate entry and exit points in the basement of any building, public declaration of their building plan, removal of encroachment from drains and footpaths, among other steps.

All zonal deputy commissioners have been directed to implement these measures to prevent misuse of the basement and other related matters in a circular issued on July 29, released on Thursday.