Pune: Collector’s Office Clarifies That Roof Panels, Not Documents, Were Blown Away In Heavy Rain
Pune, 5th October 2022: The footage of the files in the Collectorate being blown away due to the high speed of the wind during the storm on 30th September was circulated on social media. The Collectorate claimed that they were not documents but roof panels. The Collector’s Office and the Public Works Department have clarified that no documents or files in the Collector’s Office were blown away due to the storm.
A videotape of documents in the Collector’s office being blown away during the storm was circulated on social media. After that, the building of the Collector’s office came into discussion. In this background, this explanation has been given by the Collector’s office. There are four wings namely ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’ and ‘D’ in the building of the District Collector’s office. There are various offices in ‘A’ and ‘B’ wings, halls of Collector, Upper Collector, Resident Deputy Collector and a 350-seat auditorium in ‘C’ wing and a 4-storey parking lot in ‘D’ wing. Corridors are arranged on five floors for employees and visitors to come to various offices from the parking lot building. Under the RCC slabs of these corridors, there is a false ceiling. The corridors on both sides are five storeys and three metres wide. The total area of the virtual roof is eight thousand square feet. The virtual roof consists of 60 cm by 60 cm panels that float on an aluminium frame and can be removed when needed. These panels are kept in a staggered position for maintenance of the service channel between the RCC roof and the virtual roof.
During the storm on 30th September, due to high wind speed, many panels of this virtual roof were blown off and fell into the premises of the building. A video of these panels flying in the storm went viral on social media. In it, the perception that panels were blown away in a storm spread everywhere. None of the documents in the collector’s office was blown away in this storm; It has also been clarified by the collector’s office that the building has not been disturbed anywhere.
All virtual ceilings in the corridors will be systematically removed along with the framework. Apart from the damaged panels, the rest of the good panels will be used in the office rooms of the buildings under construction in the future through the Public Works Department, the Collector’s Office said. Also, the bottom of the roof is painted white.
Atul Chavan, Chief Engineer of the Public Works Department said, “In the construction of buildings to be undertaken in the future through the Public Works Department, care will be taken not to construct virtual roofs in corridors and open passages.”
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