00:00Well, the situation remains very, very serious and very, very grim even at this point in time.
00:04More than 18 hours has gone by and still the search and rescue operations are underway.
00:08I'll just move out the frame and try and show you in the visuals behind me.
00:11You can see that now heavy machine trees are finally being used to make sure
00:14that the large pieces of debris that has been collected over here,
00:18that could be removed at the earliest.
00:19Canine squads of the Delhi Police have also been deployed over here.
00:22The job of the canine squad is to actually make sure
00:25that they identify the exact locations where people are stuck
00:30and then from there, precise surgical operations are being done
00:33to make sure that the debris does not slip off
00:35and people who are stuck beneath it, they are rescued safely.
00:39Apart from this, if we talk about the peripheral area of this area,
00:44I'll just try and show you in the visuals,
00:45one after other, there are ambulances that have been placed throughout this entire area.
00:50As soon as a person is taken out, they are taken in these ambulances
00:54and are either taken to the Subjajang Hospital or Ames,
00:57which is just 15 minutes away from the spot.
00:59But one interesting picture that I'd like to show you is this building.
01:03You can see this boat that has now been covered with clothes.
01:07This is Hostel Days.
01:09The same building that has collapsed,
01:11it is being operated by the same people in the same manner.
01:15In this building, you can also see that this building actually goes ahead
01:18and bypasses every building bylaw that has been made by the MCD.
01:23In this entire area, ground plus three floors are allowed
01:26but this building is at least ground plus five floors
01:29and this is a girls hostel that is being operated from here.
01:32Even the entry exit, if I could just show you in these visuals,
01:35the entry exit is not more than two feet in length.
01:38There are no emergency exits.
01:40Yet again, this entire building is being run in a very, very illegal manner
01:45with very few people actually batting an eye
01:48as to how these buildings are being allowed to operate in this area.
01:51Remember, this entire area of Satya Niketan is actually a residential area.
01:56So any sort of a commercial activity is absolutely not allowed.
01:59And I'll just try and show you in the visuals,
02:00all these buildings that you are seeing on your screens right now,
02:03all these buildings are being operated in a manner
02:07which is absolutely, absolutely illegal in nature.
02:10The building bylaws have absolutely been taken to task in this entire area.
02:15and all these buildings where commercial activities are not allowed.
02:18You cannot have any commercial activities in a residential building
02:21but in all these buildings, commercial activities are going on.
02:24The biggest question is, does the MCD not know?
02:27Does the local police not know that such operations are being done over here,
02:31that such illegal buildings are being operated over here?
02:34How are all these buildings being allowed to operate over here?
02:37Specifically, the building that has collapsed,
02:39the locals of this area are saying that over the past one year,
02:42the building was actually sealed and it is only in the month of August
02:45that the building was opened yet again.
02:48Students from first year who were attending first year of college,
02:50they came over here, they were residing in that building
02:54and construction work, renovation work was being done in the basement itself.
02:58Once the building was already earmarked as unsafe,
03:01it was opened yet again for people to stay inside it
03:04and for commercial purposes, this is a big, big question.
03:08Who were the people who were involved?
03:10Does the local police beat officer does not know it?
03:13Does the MCD officers of the area does not know it?
03:16Obviously, all of them know it
03:17and definitely this is a very, very clear case of corruption
03:19that can be seen over here on Ground Zero.
03:23It remains to be seen if at all this time.
03:25Any sort of a tangible action that could be taken
03:28from the side of the government
03:29which would actually set an example for all these corrupt officers
03:32who were involved in such massive, massive negligence
03:35and negligence due to which life of people are at stake day in and day out.
