Also, commercial buildings with high rise are below the fire regulations. | Photo Credit: File Photos
Department of Fire Services, after consultation with Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation and other parties involved, seriously mulling that under the ingredient of fire regulations also brings commercial buildings that are not high.
It also concerns compliance with the administration of hospitals to ambity, through changes to the TELANGANA Fire Service of 1999, according to information shared officials on the condition of anonymity. These provisions could be incorporated into the law, at the same time as its amendment in accordance with the bill on the Fire Services of the Model, 2019, prepared by the Ministry of the Interior for Adaptation of States.
According to the current rules, only height commercial buildings over 15 meters are required and residential buildings over 18 meters in height to obtain a building permit for a volume certificate (night) from the Department of Fire Services. With regard to several cases in the last few years, when there have been massive fire accidents in commercial buildings, which were below 15 meters in height, it is possible to seriously invent all such structures under the work of the law.
Since the hospital is one more area where victims could be very high in the event of fire accidents, they could also be administered under the regulatory mechanism, resources shared. One more amendment sorted to adapt the law after the draft of the Model Act is to merge the services of reaction to disasters with fire services, shared officials. Once the proposals have been completed, the government will be sent for approval.
Since 2022 there have been a number of fire accidents with a significant number of victims, most of them in commercial buildings and warehouses. A total of 12 migrant workers died in a fire accident in the god of scrap in Bhoiguda in March 2022 and eight people in September 2022 in the showroom of electric vehicles suffered to death. In January 2023, three people died in a commercial road in a commercial road in a commercial road, while in March 2023 he claimed six lives in the Swapnalok complex in the Complex in Secunderabad.
Published – April 9, 2025 23:54
