Municipal Corporation of Delhi survey identified three dangerous paying-guest buildings housing sixty-nine occupants. The civic body also found nine other buildings requiring major repairs and forty-nine needing minor repairs. Over the last four days, demolition action occurred at one hundred and eleven properties and eighty-eight were sealed. This intensified enforcement follows a recent paying-guest building collapse which killed seven people.

LMC issued notices to owners of these properties, directing them to undertake repairs; but the civic body’s intervention largely ends with issuing notices, leaving enforcement of…

Structural safety and unauthorised PG construction in metro cities like Mumbai and Delhi is rampant, however, tenants must keep legality in mind, experts said