A building permitted for three floors, while being extended illegally to 6 floors by a builder, collapses. As a consequence, a number of innocent labourers including women and children died. These labourers are migrants of different places. The government immediately announced cash relief to the aggrieved families and arrested the builder. Give reasons for such incidents taking place across the country. Suggest measures to prevent their occurrence.
What the examiner wants
Explain why illegal-construction collapses keep happening and suggest prevention.
Demand-wise check
- 1Stakeholders: dead labourers and families, builder, municipal officials, residents, government≈50 words
- 2Reasons: builder–official–political nexus, weak inspection, regularisation schemes encouraging violations, poor materials, informal unregistered migrant labour, slow justice≈50 words
- 3Measures: accountability of officials who allowed it, structural audits, digital approvals and drone monitoring, RERA enforcement, registration of workers under BOCW Act, safety norms, quick prosecution≈50 words
- 4Ethical: value of life of the poor, duty of care≈50 words
Open in about 30 words and close in about 30.
Answer plan
Where marks usually go
- Blaming only the builder
- Ignoring migrant workers' welfare
Draw this
- Fishbone diagram of collapse causes
Value addition
- ExampleMoulivakkam (Chennai) building collapse in June 2014 killed 61 people, mostly workers.Tamil Nadu, 2014
- CaseSupreme Court (2021) ordered demolition of Supertech's Noida twin towers for violations; demolished August 2022.Supreme Court, 2021
- LawBuilding and Other Construction Workers Act, 1996 provides welfare boards and cess for workers.BOCW Act, 1996
Mapped topper copies
Reviewed public-source references related to this PYQ. Same-syllabus references are labelled separately.
- K Varun Reddy · Page 33 ↗Reviewed PYQ reference
- Aakash Garg · AIR 5 · Page 29 ↗Same syllabus reference
- Shakti Dubey · AIR 1 · Page 39 ↗Same syllabus reference
- Aakash Garg · AIR 5 · Page 35 ↗Same syllabus reference
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