FIRE SAFETY: How Regulations are sabotaged by Maharashtra Government
October 20, 2009: Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) and Maharashtra Government has given in to pressures from builders, and made far-reaching changes in existing laws through the back-door. Bypassing the state legislature, they issued GRs (circulars) that negate existing laws and Development Control Regulations (DC Rules). These changes are endangering lakhs of people in high-rise buildings, and in fact, entire neighbourhoods which are a combustible mix of high-rise buildings, slums, illegal encroachments, CNG filling stations, stores, unauthorized godowns and factories, etc. How was this legal scam carried out? Read the below scans from a book on Mumbai’s REVISED Development Control Rules 1991 (2003-04 edition). I have marked key points in these scans with a red dot. Also, many lines are underlined by Mumbai's Chief Fire Officer (CFO) P D Karguppikar, who gave these to me during an RTI Inspection. DETAILS OF THE SABOTAGE: A. ...