Extensive Audit of all the hotels under safety compliances

Hyderabad, January 11: As we known that, Recently the two apartments are suddenly fell down at Nanakramguda. Many people had lost their lives in this incident. Those buildings were collapsed because, These were poorly constructed and flouted norms and usage of non-qualified materials, said by the officials.

To avoid those disasters, Telangana Disaster Response and Fire Services Department has decided to take up a comprehensive audit of all the hotels in the twin cities to check for fire safety compliance and required permissions like licenses in coordination with the Tourism and related departments.

The decision was taken, when its department personnel was shocked to notice that Hotel Katriya on the busy Raj Bhavan road was not only ill-equipped to tackle any fire mishap, but also lacked proper No Objection Certificate (NOC). Occupancy Certificate (OC) too was missing.

Earlier in the day, fire personnel rushed to the hotel on receipt of information about a fire breaking out at about 8 a.m. Three fire trucks and one sky-lift was deployed to put out the fire by 9 a.m. Electricity short circuit was said to be the cause of the fire and it had ignited mattresses and fabric stored in the shaft around the lift. There was extensive damage to the fourth and fifth floors.

"Twenty-four fire mishaps were reported in TS last year from hotels alone", Officials added.