Explosives to demolish Supertech twin towers arrive in Noida
India Today
The first consignment of the explosives that will be used to demolish Supertech's twin towers arrived in Noida on Saturday.
The work to install explosives to demolish the Supertech twin towers on the Greater Noida expressway is about to start as the first consignment arrived in Noida on Saturday. This comes a day after the Supreme Court gave the green signal to demolish the towers on August 28.
The explosives arrived in Noida from Haryana’s Palwal under police protection. The explosives weighed around 325 kg. Earlier, officials said the explosives are kept at a facility in Palwal and will be brought from there in regulated quantities every single day to the demolition site in Sector 93A.
The planned razing of the 40-storey superstructures was ordered due to the violation of building bye-laws. The Supreme Court ordered the demolition of the nearly 100-meter-tall structures last year.
For the demolition of the buildings, more than 3,500 kg of explosives will be filled in around 9,400 holes drilled in the columns and shears of the skeletal structures of the twin towers.
Officials told PTI that the road in front of the twin towers will be closed for regular traffic from Saturday and additional security personnel will be deployed in the area that will be under constant police monitoring.
Supertech's Apex and Ceyane towers are scheduled for demolition in pursuance of a Supreme Court order last August which noted that the structures had come up in violation of building norms inside Emerald Court society.
(With input from PTI)
