Doubts over quality of houses in R&R colony
The Hindu
Retaining wall of a staircase collapsed after a brief spell of rain on Sunday
Doubts are being expressed by oustees over the quality of houses constructed for them at the Rehabilitation and Resettlement Colony at Mutrajpally near Gajwel. Here the government has planned to relocate the oustees from some eight villages that would get submerged under Mallannasagar under the larger Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project. On Sunday the compound wall of a house of in the colony collapsed following a spell of rain in the evening. The wall collapsed even as the residents were watching it, it was like watching a slow motion clip in a movie, said the people who were watching it from a distance. The residents of the ill-fated house rushed out in fear. “We were allocated this — house number 281 of Pallepahad — and shifted here some two weeks ago. On Sunday, the compound wall along the stairs collapsed while our children were sleeping in the house. We are extremely lucky none of us got hurt. There are cracks even inside the house,” resident of the ill-fated house, Pushpalatha, said. “If the wall collapsed and other walls have developed cracks as a result of a brief spell of rain that too within two months of construction, we shudder to think what would happens during the rainy season,” she added.More Related News