It’s been over a week since residents of the Jain Westminster apartment on Arunachalam Road in Saligramam complained about a portion of ceiling collapsing in their building and ever since then they have been having sleepless nights.
Residents said they had been having problems since 2017. The plastering in the walls started peeling off in all the houses at that time. “We thought this was due to some leakage in bathroom. And then problems started in the common area. They [the management] came to do repair work in 2019 without any inspection or methodology,” said M.P. Kumar, secretary of Jain Westminster Owners Welfare Association.
It was then that residents found out that the building was constructed using saline water and because of this the chloride content was high. In the last few months, the building had several issues such as cracks in the walls. And most owners have spent several lakhs of rupees on repairs.
