Infant deaths in Delhi: Building facade under MCD scanner for bye-law violation
Hindustan TimesThe building facade at the Baby Care New Born Child Hospital in Vivek Vihar, where six children died in a fire in the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday, is under the Municipal Corporation of Delhi’s scanner for violations in building bye-laws, a senior corporation official said on Monday. An MCD official said that owners of the building clearly seem to have covered the balcony and open section of the building with an iron frame and chrome panels. Delhi children hospital fire: Owner ran three hospitals without licence The civic body has said that the as per the Master Plan of Delhi 2021, nursing homes and hospital activities are allowed under Chapter 15 of the mixed land use regulations in residential areas. However, a second senior MCD official, on condition of anonymity, said that the owners of the building clearly seem to have covered the balcony and open section of the building with an iron frame and chrome panels.
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