Queen's Corner tragedy: Home to hotel, it’s no easy life
BENGALURU: Staying at a business class hotel with a suitcase is fine while on a vacation, but not when you have to juggle with routine work and get children ready for school every day. It can be a challenging and maddening task, said Thangam Venki, who has been moved out of her home in Queen’s Corner apartment to Citrus Hotel.
After the C Block of Queen’s Corner apartment developed cracks and a portion of earth caved in because of the excavation work being carried out by Legacy builders for a 13-storey residential complex off Cunningham Road, all the 32 families have been moved to safety, paid for by Legacy.
“Our stress levels are growing by the day. It is cumbersome that we have to go to our apartment for all small little things. When we moved out of our apartment, we only carried some valuables, passports and stationery of our daughter. The hotel room is cramped and it can never match home,” she said.
“Our children have no place to play. It is unfortunate that I meet my neighbours at hotel corridors and the dining room. We are praying for builders to erect the retaining wall as soon as possible. I don’t know how long it will take, and when the engineers will declare the structure safe for us to move back in,” she said. “All of us are facing similar problems. But I must say that we don’t have to pay for the accommodation,” she said.