Monsoon preps: So far, MCD has surveyed only 37% buildings

Less than a month before the arrival of the monsoon, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) is severely lagging behind in its annual pre-monsoon survey of dangerous buildings with only 36.9% of the targeted structures covered as of May 23, officials aware of the exercise said on Wednesday.

- Paras Singh

NEW DELHI:

According to MCD records, of the 2.83 million buildings scheduled to be surveyed this year, only 1,045,814 have been inspected so far. The progress report, a copy of which has been seen by HT, shows MCD will now have to cover 1.78 million houses in just 22 days — or a whopping 81,000 houses a day — to meet its June 15 deadline.