Bhubaneswar: The larger schooling division on Thursday urged Aparajita Chowdhury, vice-chancellor of Rama Devi Ladies’s College, Bhubaneswar, to supply her views on the actual fact discovering report submitted by the Odisha State Police Housing and Welfare Company on collapsing of college boundary wall on April 9.
After a portion (180 ft) of the college boundary wall caved in, the company’s two members visited the place to search out out causes behind the falling of the wall in entrance of the college.
In its truth discovering report, the members acknowledged that the incident occurred attributable to extraction of soil/earth from the plinth of the boundary wall. Round 2 ft depth of soil was taken away with the intention to put together a grass mattress for beautification. “Because of an imbalance of plinth stage on both aspect of the boundary wall, the wall collapsed in direction of the campus aspect,” learn the report.
The report additional mentioned steady seepage of water from the merchandising zone aspect to the boundary wall was additionally a motive for the collapse of the boundary wall. “The distributors of merchandising zones are in observe of discharging water constantly adjoining to the boundary wall as they haven’t any wastewater administration system or drainage system. The ingesting water provide line handed by means of the boundary wall has weakened the wall too,” mentioned the report.
Nonetheless, the company mentioned it’s not associated to the collapse of the boundary wall.
The company really helpful the federal government to cease seepage of water and draining of wastewater from merchandising zone aspect and strengthening of plinth of boundary wall by offering plinth safety as much as 4 ft extensive. It has been proposed within the report for building of a brand new boundary wall with bolstered cement concrete (RCC) basis and columns. “It isn’t doable to retrofit by inserting columns in between the prevailing wall,” learn the report.
After a portion (180 ft) of the college boundary wall caved in, the company’s two members visited the place to search out out causes behind the falling of the wall in entrance of the college.
In its truth discovering report, the members acknowledged that the incident occurred attributable to extraction of soil/earth from the plinth of the boundary wall. Round 2 ft depth of soil was taken away with the intention to put together a grass mattress for beautification. “Because of an imbalance of plinth stage on both aspect of the boundary wall, the wall collapsed in direction of the campus aspect,” learn the report.
The report additional mentioned steady seepage of water from the merchandising zone aspect to the boundary wall was additionally a motive for the collapse of the boundary wall. “The distributors of merchandising zones are in observe of discharging water constantly adjoining to the boundary wall as they haven’t any wastewater administration system or drainage system. The ingesting water provide line handed by means of the boundary wall has weakened the wall too,” mentioned the report.
Nonetheless, the company mentioned it’s not associated to the collapse of the boundary wall.
The company really helpful the federal government to cease seepage of water and draining of wastewater from merchandising zone aspect and strengthening of plinth of boundary wall by offering plinth safety as much as 4 ft extensive. It has been proposed within the report for building of a brand new boundary wall with bolstered cement concrete (RCC) basis and columns. “It isn’t doable to retrofit by inserting columns in between the prevailing wall,” learn the report.