By Siva Gorripati
VISAKHAPATNAM: Even though the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) has been identifying unsafe buildings every year and serving notices to the owners to renovate if the structural soundness is okay. If not, the GVMC suggests demolition. But, many turn a deaf ear to the notices slapped by the GVMC due to either lack of financial means or emotional attachment with those houses.
Following a building collapse in Ramajogipeta in which three persons were killed in the wee hours of Thursday, the authorities of GVMC are now planning to serve the notices to the owners of old buildings. The officials of GVMC initially identified 320 structures in the year 2016. Later, the number increased to 450 in the GVMC limits. One of the town planning officers told TOI that they are on the job of enumerating the unsafe buildings in the city.
