The Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) has identified 168 points of hindrance in new sectors of the city, which affect developmental works, due to the transfer of management of assets between different agencies, said officials on Monday. These include 30 issues in water supply, 38 in the sewage system, 40 in road construction/repair, and 60 […]
Police booked a group of unidentified persons for allegedly stealing spare equipment worth lakhs of rupees meant for electrification work under the Gurugram Smart City project from a storage area at Bhondsi on the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday. Police said an FIR was registered on Monday night under section 379 (punishment for theft) […]
After the lower floors of a high-rise building in Gurugram collapsed on Thursday, Apartment Owners’ Associations (AOAs) of high-rise societies in Gautam Budh Nagar have amplified their demand for a structural audit of buildings from the authorities. The AOAs say that there are a number of buildings that are unsafe and a mishap is a […]
Portions of a wall and ceiling of two flats in a Sector 109 housing society collapsed on Friday and Saturday, just days after a collapse killed two people in Chintels Paradiso in the same sector on Thursday. Residents of Raheja Atharva, a residential complex in Sector 109, alleged that the external unit of a split […]
With his feet trapped under hundreds of kilograms of debris, Arun Kumar Shrivastava, 60, waited 17 hours in excruciating pain to be rescued as disaster response personnel fed him and provided first aid. On Friday, he was finally brought out, and shifted immediately to a private hospital where doctors said all his vitals were normal. […]
At least two people died and six others were trapped under the debris after the ceiling of a sixth-floor flat in a condominium in Sector 109 collapsed, causing all the floors underneath the room to cave-in, around 6pm on Thursday, police and rescue workers at the site said.The incident took place in a flat in […]
A group of residents of Gurugram’s Chintels Paradiso housing society alleged that the police and city administration had ignored their complaints of substandard construction and poor materials, arguing that proper action could have averted Thursday’s roof collapse, which left at least three people dead and several more injured. A 30-year-old woman resident said she, along […]
Haryana home minister Anil Vij said on Friday a first information report (FIR) was filed in the Gurugram building collapse case in which at least two lives were lost a day ago. Vij said two police officers of deputy superintendent-level were investigating the case. Rescue personnel said at least one person is still said to […]
Gurugram: The directorate of urban local bodies (DULB) has formed a four-member ad-hoc committee to oversee the delimitation of wards for the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG), said officials on Tuesday. The MCG presently has 35 municipal wards. Last year, 16 areas and villages around the Golf Course Extension Road (GCER) and the Dwarka Expressway […]
Nearly 40% of the sanitation workers were missing during surprise inspections carried out by senior officials of the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) across the city on late Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, said officials in the know of the matter. The inspections were carried out a week after Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar […]
In view of the decline in cases of the Coronavirus (Covid-19) disease, the Haryana government on Tuesday asked all its employees to attend office on a regular basis from Wednesday (February 9). The government also ordered reopening of schools for classes one to nine from Thursday. An official order issued by the government read, “In […]
Gurugram: The directorate of urban local bodies (DULB) has formed a four-member ad-hoc committee to oversee the delimitation of wards for the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG), said officials on Tuesday. The MCG presently has 35 municipal wards. Last year, 16 areas and villages around the Golf Course Extension Road (GCER) and the Dwarka Expressway […]
