GVMC wakes up to unsafe buildings

VISAKHAPATNAM: The collapse of City Light Hotel in Secunderabad seems to have woken up officials of the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) on the need to identify unsafe buildings and take action against the owners. "We are now on the job of enumerating the unsafe buildings in the city," said deputy city planner of GVMC's town planning department Venkata Subbaiah on Tuesday. Former bureaucrat E A S Sarma said that he has during the last five years written several letters to GVMC...