In 2021, Praveen Malik bought a 3-BHK flat for Rs 1.45 crore in Tower B of Chintels Paradiso in Gurgaon’s Sector 109. A 12 months later, a lethal accident in neighbouring Tower D — the sixth flooring got here crashing all the way down to the primary flooring, killing two girls — sparked off a sequence of inspections, and tower after tower started to be declared unsafe. Malik, an engineer at Air India, has now obtained the information that one more tower — the eighth of the nine-tower society — is ‘unsafe’. The ‘security’ report of his tower too is awaited.
“It’s evident that the report is coming one after the other — and all of them unsafe,” the 48-year-old scoffed.
A fellow resident of Tower B, BSES official Anil Kaushik, stated “we had been informed ours had been premium flats and we pooled in all our cash on the time of retirement”. “They are going to full the undertaking in six years after the demolition, how many people can be alive?”
He identified {that a} resident of Tower D, Vikram Gambhir, who was continuously writing to the authorities, died not too long ago. “Persons are dying whereas waging this battle. Each morning and night, our conversations are on this… everybody asks what our plans are. There’s a lot misery. On prime of this, the administration is with them and is exerting stress on us to vacate,” he alleged.
The 55-year-old owns a flat on the twelfth flooring. “We are going to resist, and if it means going to courtroom, we are going to achieve this.”
Extra Deputy Commissioner Hitesh Meena stated he was unaware of the matter. District City Planner Manish Yadav stated the difficulty can be mentioned within the structural audit committee assembly underneath the chairmanship of the Gurgaon Deputy Commissioner.
Malik alleged they’ve been left within the lurch. “From day one, the builder has been seeking to divide individuals, throw them out of 1 tower after one other, and attain a settlement. When the IIT-Delhi report was happening, they took 5 samples with signatures of householders, however the Central Constructing Analysis Institute (CBRI) didn’t…,” he claimed.
He added that residents of Tower A, the most recent declared unsafe, will quickly be referred to as for a gathering with the builder for settlement after which their report can be launched.
On the best way ahead, he stated, “We are going to meet the administration after assembly the builder. We count on them to order to redo the audit. Both give us a flat within the neighborhood or give full hire within the interim,” he stated.
In the meantime, Chintels India Restricted Vice-President J N Yadav stated they despatched the report back to the district administration Wednesday and the following plan of motion can be initiated by it. “The 2 choices we prolonged to different flat homeowners within the seven towers apply to Tower A residents as nicely,” he stated.
Kaushik, nevertheless, blamed the administration: “If it was obvious that Part 1 of the undertaking (D, E, F, G and H towers) was poor, the administration ought to have executed one thing with Part 2 (A, B, C and J). How can the admin fail to take motion?”
The remaining flat homeowners are on the lookout for solutions, citing the Madras Excessive Court docket’s path relating to Jains Westminster Residences. The courtroom had authorised redevelopment post-demolition. “A builder in the identical nation is providing 40% of revenue to flat homeowners for redeveloping the undertaking whereas Chintels is charging Rs 1,000 per sqft as a substitute of sharing revenue,” Kaushik claimed.
