Bengaluru: The 23 families of the Queen’s Corner Apartment’s C-Block, who are currently staying at the Citrus Hotel on Cunningham Road are anxious as to when can they return back to their homes.
“It has been six days now we are out of our homes, staying at the hotel. We are still unsure when the builder will finish with the work and when will the authorities declare the building safe for habitation,” said Lal Mirpuri, President, Residential Welfare Association.
“The incident of caving-in happened on Monday and from Tuesday we all have been accommodated at the hotel nearby. Around 29 rooms in the hotel have been booked for all of us with a head count of two for each room. Our food and accommodation bills are borne by the builder as of now,” said Mirpuri.
“How long can we keep eating hotel food? and we have already started to miss our homes as we are unsure as to how long will it take for the retention wall to be built enough to support the entire length of the driveway,“ he added.
Though initially the occupants of the Queen’s Corner Apartments protested and demanded that a memorandum of understanding (MoU) needs to be signed between the Apartment Association and Legacy Builders keeping the civic authorities also as parties, their aggression simmered down seeing the builders doing their best to build the retention wall at a quick pace. “They are working day and night and have promised us everything will be done to safeguard Queen’s Corner building and the Income Tax colony, but the unanswered question is when would they finish and when can we return to our homes,” said Mirpuri.
The BWSSB work at the Queen’s Corner building in going on full-swing as the builder who had filled in concrete at the caved in potions, the concrete had gotten into pockets of the sewerage pipeline blocking them, hence the work of clearing the sewerage pipelines are underway, said Margaret, Manager at Queens Corner Apartments.
