Meeting With Owners Of Multi-storeyed Buildings
Additional Director-General of Police and Director of Fire and Rescue Services K.R. Shyamsundar interacting with owners of multi-storeyed buildings and commercial complexes in Coimbatore on Tuesday. Show cause notices will be served on building owners who have not obtained No Objection Certificates from departments concerned, the Additional Director-General of Police and Director of Fire and Rescue Services, K.R. Shyamsundar, said on Tuesday. Most of the buildings in Coimbatore city were not having such certificates, he told reporters here. Mr. Shyamsundar said that the objective of his meeting with owners of multi-storeyed buildings and commercial complexes today was to sensitise them to the need for obtaining such certificates. The meeting was organised in the wake of a fire that broke out in a shopping complex in Chennai recently.
Of the 150 multi-storeyed buildings in the city, only 62 of them had obtained the certificates (compliance level of 41.3 per cent) In the special buildings category, of the 555 only 133 had obtained the certificates (compliance level of 23.91 per cent) and in the industries category, only 352 of the 6,041 buildings had obtained the certificates (compliance level of 5.8 per cent). If these building owners fail to comply with the norms, prosecution proceedings will be inititated against them under the provisions of the Tamil Nadu Fire Safety Act. The Fire and Rescue Services Department would ensure that the eight guidelines issued by the Madras High Court were complied with at cracker selling units during the coming Deepavali season.
These shops should be located only on safe and closed premises. There should be a gap of minimum 3 m between each fire cracker shop. Shops should not be located opposite to each other. There should not be open, unsafe lightings and crackers should not be displayed at the front of the shop. No cracker merchant should stock beyond 1,000 kg, he said. Every shop should have fire safety gadgets and stock adequate sand bags as instructed by the Explosives Controller.
