Citing an order from the Brihan Mumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), news agency ANI reported on Sunday that a four-member committee has been set up to investigate the Kamala building fire that led to a fire in Mumbai, Maharashtra state. Many casualties. The investigation will be chaired by a city deputy commissioner-level officer and a report will be filed with the BMC commissioner within 15 days, the order said.
A fire broke out in Mumbai’s 20-storey Kamala building on Saturday morning. The incident claimed six lives and injured 23. Fire officials received the first information about the fire at 7:28 a.m. It took the fire brigade about two and a half hours to bring the Category 3 (massive) fire under control and nearly five hours to fully extinguish it.
This is the fourth high-rise fire in Mumbai that has caused casualties in three months.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced an ex-gratia payment of Rs 2 lakh each for relatives of the victims from the Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund (PMNRF). He also announced Rs 50,000 for the injured.
The Uddav Thackrey government also announced compensation of Rs 5 lakh to the family of the deceased and pledged to conduct a proper investigation into the incident. Aaditya Thackeray and Mumbai City Guardianship Minister Aslam Shaikh will investigate this,” Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar said in a statement on Saturday.
According to fire department officials, the fire protection system at Tardeo’s Kamla building, also known as the Sachinam Heights building, was not operating at the time of the fire. “The building’s internal fire protection system was not working properly and the building was not even submitted to the fire brigade for its biannual fire safety audit,” said Hemant Parab, chief fire officer of the Mumbai Fire Brigade.
Complete News Source : Hindustan Times
