Replacing Illicit Construction with New Ones – IIT-M Instigates!
The Indian Institute of Technology-Madras has make a start to the work on standardizing its illicit constructions and may go confront with new ones , mentioned by a letter focused to the supervising committee of the Chennai Metropolitan Development Authorization.
The letter also about the tender put forward by the institute in quest of the estimates to make plans following the CMDA rules for replacing the old buildings. And these bids clogged-up on 15 April.
The National Green Tribunal has suspended all the new building activities which have been carried away in the institute campus during March.
Because of the space crunch, the institute has been requesting acquiescence to proceed with the construction work.
The IIT officials says that by the upcoming academic year, the count of students would be exceeding 8,000, and there was not adequate breathe space to accommodate lodge them in the existing buildings.
Previously, we have depicted up the plan by ourselves, but it implicated a lot of task and devoured time; hence, we stuffed the task to multiple contractors, told IIT-M Director Baskar Ramamurthy to The Hindu.
On the other hand, a representative of the CMDA monitoring committee said that the institute didn’t involved in the illicit act by calling for tender. And the next hearing is scheduled for 5 May.
