Delhi reports 32 collapse incidents amid rains, MCD to survey vulnerable spots

With incessant rains over the weekend, Delhi has reported at least 33 cases related to portions of houses collapsing since Saturday, officials said. As the complaints continued to be reported by residents, Municipal Corporation of Delhi officials said that they will launch a fresh survey to identify buildings that are dangerous for residential purposes in areas from where the latest incident were reported. Read here: North India rain toll rises as water level turns dangerous Delhi Fire Services officials said the fire control room received 28 calls related to collapse of houses, portions of walls, roofs or balconies on Saturday and Sunday – the maximum during monsoons in the past 20 years. An MCD official overseeing the exercise said that a fresh survey will be undertaken in vulnerable areas such as Old Delhi and unauthoirsed colonies where continuous water seepage over the last three days may have weakened structures. Read here: Rain-heavy system over north likely to subside by today, to shift to east: IMD Dheeraj Dubey, who heads the Walled City Residential Welfare Federation --- a collective of RWAs in Old Delhi --- said numerous incidents of building collapse take place in the area every year during the monsoon, and the agencies just pay lip-service.