KOLKATA: Final-year BCom scholar Amit Pandey is anxious about his long run as his father Uday Sankar was instructed to look for an alternate accommodation forward of Amit’s semester exam next week.
Pandey’s circle of relatives is likely one of the 30 households who have been asked to vacate the rickety three-storey development on Rani Rashmoni Road in central Kolkata. The century-old development is amongst six others for which municipal commissioner Khalil Ahmed had issued a distinct demolition order. Accordingly, a KMC demolition squad reached the spot at 11am. By 2.20pm, large parts of the development were razed to the ground.
Though parts of the development occupied by the tenants were spared, the KMC development department engineers asked the tenants to vacate the premises by next week.
However, the civic power took the citizens of the development off guard. “Earlier, the civic group had given us simplest 48 hours to move out. This was now not conceivable as we want time to take action. I have my semester tests. I will’t be aware of my study amid such uncertainty,” Amit instructed TOI.
Similarly, 45-year-old Anita Roy, who has been a tenant of the development since birth, expressed fear over the way forward for her daughter who has been making ready for her CA (inter) tests. “The KMC has given us a brand new time limit. But we're an bizarre circle of relatives and don’t have the sources to shop for a brand new area or rent one in central Kolkata. I concern my daughter will find it difficult to prepare for her higher research,” Roy said.
Nitesh Singh, a small-time trader on SN Banerjee Road, has been a tenant of the rickety development for four a long time. Singh alleged that all appeals by the tenants for an intensive restore of the development fell on deaf ears. “We have seen parts of the development cave in 3 times. This has created a panic amongst many of us. Recently, we had requested the landlord to have parts of the development repaired after a large chunk fell from the roof on a car parked at the portico. But he grew to become down our proposal,” Singh said.
However, proprietor Biswajit Biswas does now not purchase any argument citing lack of fear for the upkeep of the development. He claimed that due to the lack of price range generated from the rent gathered, he was not able to carry out maintenance and upkeep works at the development. Biswas said, “It isn't that I'm really not concerned about the situation of the century-old development. But I will rarely take any step as the paltry quantity I get from the tenants is a long way from enough to undertake even a small restore.
Some tenants occupy two or 3 rooms, but pay no more than Rs 50-100 monthly. Repeated proposals to hike the rent were grew to become down by a majority of the tenants. In this type of scenario, how is it conceivable for me to carry out a restore or renovation?” he asked.
Pandey’s circle of relatives is likely one of the 30 households who have been asked to vacate the rickety three-storey development on Rani Rashmoni Road in central Kolkata. The century-old development is amongst six others for which municipal commissioner Khalil Ahmed had issued a distinct demolition order. Accordingly, a KMC demolition squad reached the spot at 11am. By 2.20pm, large parts of the development were razed to the ground.
Though parts of the development occupied by the tenants were spared, the KMC development department engineers asked the tenants to vacate the premises by next week.
However, the civic power took the citizens of the development off guard. “Earlier, the civic group had given us simplest 48 hours to move out. This was now not conceivable as we want time to take action. I have my semester tests. I will’t be aware of my study amid such uncertainty,” Amit instructed TOI.
Similarly, 45-year-old Anita Roy, who has been a tenant of the development since birth, expressed fear over the way forward for her daughter who has been making ready for her CA (inter) tests. “The KMC has given us a brand new time limit. But we're an bizarre circle of relatives and don’t have the sources to shop for a brand new area or rent one in central Kolkata. I concern my daughter will find it difficult to prepare for her higher research,” Roy said.
Nitesh Singh, a small-time trader on SN Banerjee Road, has been a tenant of the rickety development for four a long time. Singh alleged that all appeals by the tenants for an intensive restore of the development fell on deaf ears. “We have seen parts of the development cave in 3 times. This has created a panic amongst many of us. Recently, we had requested the landlord to have parts of the development repaired after a large chunk fell from the roof on a car parked at the portico. But he grew to become down our proposal,” Singh said.
However, proprietor Biswajit Biswas does now not purchase any argument citing lack of fear for the upkeep of the development. He claimed that due to the lack of price range generated from the rent gathered, he was not able to carry out maintenance and upkeep works at the development. Biswas said, “It isn't that I'm really not concerned about the situation of the century-old development. But I will rarely take any step as the paltry quantity I get from the tenants is a long way from enough to undertake even a small restore.
Some tenants occupy two or 3 rooms, but pay no more than Rs 50-100 monthly. Repeated proposals to hike the rent were grew to become down by a majority of the tenants. In this type of scenario, how is it conceivable for me to carry out a restore or renovation?” he asked.
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