Expert panels to the aid of LSGIs

To address safety threats posed to old and small structures
Technical committees comprising experts of prominent engineering colleges would come to the aid of local self-government institutions (LSGIs) for addressing complaints on safety threats posed to old and small structures due to reckless digging and piling. Local Self-Government Department sources told The Hindu that there had been a surge of complaints from all over the State about the hazards thrown up to old buildings, mostly residential, in rural and urban local bodies mainly on account of piling and digging of plots for constructing huge structures. Once a major project comes up, the relatively small and rather old structures in the neighbourhood sustain damage because they cannot bear the impact of piling and digging. Much more than in rural areas, the trend was mostly prevalent in the urban locales. Once the cities started expanding, there was an increase in complaints from the rural local bodies too, the sources said. Each local body had a panel with the secretary concerned as convener and an engineer, a structural engineer and a geo technical engineering expert as members to handle complaints about safety threats. The reports suggested expansion of technical committees comprising the local body secretary and the district town planner and proposed to include experts of prominent institutions such as the College of Engineering, Trivandrum; TKM Engineering College, Kollam, and such others for expediting the functioning of the complaint redressal mechanism. The government has also released a list of institutions in each district from where experts could be drawn for the purpose. Compared to the earlier system of having bureaucrats, the decision to rope in experts from major educational institutions is expected to pep up the functioning of the committees, the sources said.

Source : https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/expert-panels-to-the-aid-of-lsgis/article28694926.ece

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