By S A Ishaqui
Hyderabad, July 3: The Chief Justice Anil R. Dave of the Andhra Pradesh High Court on Friday took serious note of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation
(GHMC) indiscriminately accepting structural safety certificates to regularise unauthorised constructions under the Building Penalisation Scheme (BPS)
without inspecting the structures.
The Chief Justice pulled up the GHMC officials saying they accepted the certificates without any specifications on safety of buildings and without determining the capacity of the building to carry the weight.
Referring to a certificate which he came across on one occasion, Justice Dave said a particular engineer mentioned that the building was capable of bearing any load. He asked the counsel for the municipal corporation how he could accept such a blanket clearance without inspecting the building or looking at the building plans.
The Chief Justice, along with Justice Ramesh Ranganathan, was dealing with a petition filed by one Mr R. Prashant Kumar, a resident of Kanchanbagh in the city, seeking a direction to the GHMC to accept the structural stability certificates from empanelled post graduate civil engineers.
The judges asked the GHMC to submit details of at least 25 applications considered under the scheme to the court by Monday.
The petitioner moved the court based on a
news item published in Deccan Chronicle on indiscriminate issuance of certificates at Rs 1,000 per certificate. The petitioner enclosed the news report in his affidavit.
Mr G. Vidyasagar, counsel for the petitioner, argued that a structural engineer should be exposed to dynamic and seismic analysis of a structure.
He told the court that the GHMC has relaxed the specifications for granting certificates.
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