AGARTALA, Nov 21 (TIWN): District Magistrate (West) Millind Ramteke along with other officials of Fire service crew, electric department, AMC and police department visited the multi storied buildings of Agartala city on Saturday morning.

DM west along with the officials from Agartala Municipal Corporation, police personnel, and fire service crew is scheduled to visit all together 21 multi storied buildings established in the Agartala city.

Talking to DM West Millind Ramteke stated that this visit was organized by him to take a look around the facilities available in the shopping buildings of the Agartala city.

During his visit he along with other officials inspected whether the malls have the proper place for parking or not, does it have the proper emergency exit, ramp for the disabled people, appropriate electricity and water supply, facility of lift and fire lift, proper installment of CCTV camera, the entry and exit doors, and whether resting place for the consumers available or not.

Further, it was also examined how much of land have the mall occupied, is it as per the documentation of the papers, how much storey is the mall; is it under safety prone measures, what is the height of the mall, what are departmental stores in the mall and does it have all the safety measures available in the mall for the consumer satisfaction.

Talking to District Magistrate Millind Ramteke further said that the visit was mainly aimed at looking for the availability of parking zone in the shopping malls along with the facility of lift and ramp for the consumers in the malls. He further stated that the facility of parking zone is mostly important as improper parking of vehicles including motor-bikes, car, in the no parking zone on the roadside causes inconvenience to smooth traffic movement, and more seriously to pedestrians.

Widened portions of the roads get fully occupied mostly in the evening for parking and create clogging on either side the road due to irregular parking of vehicles, said Ramteke.

It is to be mentioned here that DM west along with the other officials will visit all together 21 shopping malls and will check the status of the buildings. As a part of his inspection visit, he visited Swasti Bazaar market, Hong kong bazaar, welcome palace hotel, and other spots to take a note of the status of the multi storied building.