Fire Safety Issue: AMC seals over 400 units including National Handloom mart

Ahmedabad: In the wake of the recent stricture of the Gujarat High Court in the presence of its Municipal Commissioner Mukesh Kumar, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation has started action against buildings with no fire safety clearance in the city and sealed over 400 units in five buildings including the National Handloom mart building in Nava Vadaj.

The teams of AMC in the operation starting early today morning, has also sealed the 127 units of high-rise Safal Prelude building on Corporate road in Prahaladnagar, 139 of Sakar-5 building in Ellisbridge area and over 50 in Ashoka Chambers in Mithakali.

Apart from these three buildings in Western Zone, the AMC team has also sealed 133 units in the Nahar Commercial center situated in Mirzapur in its Central zone. Notices have been slapped on all the sealed units.

The High Court had on September 14 instructed municipal commissioner, Mukesh Kumar to take appropriate action against the 972 high-rise buildings in the city which allegedly don’t comply with the fire safety norms. The court had given two weeks time to him in this regard and the matter is likely to come up for hearing again on September 22.

Many other well known buildings in the city including the Acropolis Mall, Gujarat Housing Board building, GMDC building, Tradmark Registry building, May flower hospital etc have also been served notices by the AMC in this regard.

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