Indian authorities have evacuated thousands of residents from homes adjacent to two 40-storey skyscrapers on the outskirts of the capital, New Delhi, in preparation for their detonation today, Sunday, for violating building requirements, and these residents will return to their homes 5 hours following the completion of the removal process, CNN reported. that.
The two towers, each 103 meters tall, would take 12 to 15 seconds to detonate, making them the largest buildings to be removed in the country’s history.
The removal comes in accordance with the Supreme Court’s decision last year that the contracting company that built the two towers, called “Apex” and “Cian”, had violated critical construction requirements, making them necessary to get rid of them. It is worth noting that India suffers from the problem of unlicensed construction, but most of them are not large in size.
The authorities closed the roads surrounding the skyscrapers and covered them with white plastic sheets in preparation for the detonation process, which will be completed by 3,700 kilograms of explosives, amid fears from the residents of the residential area on their homes from the force of the explosion and the pollution of the air with dust.
