{"id":570296,"date":"2023-04-18T10:48:36","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T05:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=570296"},"modified":"2023-04-18T11:44:09","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T06:14:09","slug":"check-electric-systems-cabling-bmc-to-developers-societies-on-fire-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/check-electric-systems-cabling-bmc-to-developers-societies-on-fire-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Check electric systems, cabling\u2019: BMC to developers, societies on fire safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is in talks with the state\u2019s Energy Department and Public Works Department (PWD) over the empanelment of electrical expert agencies to prevent fire incidents due to short circuits.<\/p>\n<p>Ashwini Bhide, Additional Municipal Commissioner, told the Indian Express that \u201ccurrently there is no provision in the BMC Act, which makes it mandatory to housing societies and developers to provide self-certification, over the fitness of electrical systems.\u201d Around 80 per cent of fire incidents, she stressed, occur due to short circuits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTill the time the experts are empaneled, we are asking societies and developers they should get their building meters and cable checked by any certified electrical engineer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is in talks with the state\u2019s Energy Department and Public Works Department (PWD) over the empanelment of electrical expert agencies to prevent fire incidents due to short circuits. Ashwini Bhide, Additional Municipal Commissioner, told the Indian Express that \u201ccurrently there is no provision in the BMC Act, which makes it mandatory to housing societies and developers to provide self-certification, over the fitness of electrical systems.\u201d Around 80 per cent of fire incidents, she stressed, occur due to short circuits. \u201cTill the time the experts are empaneled, we are asking societies and developers they should get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}