Mayor cracks the whip on engineers

Mayor cracks the whip on engineers
Deccan Herald

The mayor defended his action saying that that the construction of the building would not have continued if the engineers had acted on time, as per the High Court.

Mayor R Narayanaswamy suspended an assistant engineer and issued a show cause notice to an assistant executive engineer on Saturday, for allowing a developer to violate building by-laws at Sanjaynagar.

The action came following a surprise inspection by the mayor, after he received a tip-off by B S Aruna Shetty, resident of Hanumaiah Extension on phone on Friday.

Narayanas-wamy inspected the building located on 50 Feet Road at S V Layout and found the developer Selva Kumar violating building by-laws by 50 per cent.

The developer, who had earlier obtained a plan sanction to build ground and four floors, was slapped a notice by BMP for violating the by-laws, when the construction work on the third floor was going on. Acting upon the petition of the developer, the High Court had ordered for maintenance of status quo.

However, it was revealed during the mayor’s inspection that the developer had continued to construct the building inspite of the Court order.

Narayanaswamy, explaining his action against Assistant Engineer Ramesh and Assistant Executive Engineer Panchaksharaiah, said: “The construction would not have continued if the engineers had acted on time”.

Inspection ordered

The mayor also ordered the joint commissioner (West) to make a thorough inspection of the building and take necessary action as per the Court order. LIST SOUGHT

Mayor Narayanaswamy on Saturday ordered all concerned officials to submit a list of buildings that violate the by-laws in their respective wards, within 15 days. And going by his words, he means business. “If the list is not ready within 15 days, starting Saturday, I will take action against them,” he told Deccan Herald.