Click to play videoNew Delhi: Shekhar and Neelam Krishnamoorthy lost both their children in the Uphaar cinema fire in 1997. Since then it has been their mission to make sure that the public buildings are safe. They have become CNN-IBN Citizen Journalists to probe the fire safety standards in the old buildings of Delhi.
“I and my wife Neelam had become CJs, some months ago. We had probed the fire safety standards in some buildings in the busy Nehru Place area of the Capital. At that time the Chief Fire Officer had claimed that these buildings were safe but we found fire alarms were missing and all emergency exits were blocked,” says Shekhar
“Now nearly a year later, I want to see if anything is different. I have decided to go to the same place, Vishal Bhavan in Nehru Place. It is a building which has shops and offices in all four floors,” he added.
While walking through the building, Shekhar comes across a fire exit which is blocked with cardboard boxes and other materials like before. The other exit is also locked. The fire alarm is still broken like before and there are cold drink bottles lying inside.
Shekhar tells that last year his wife, Neelam, questioned the Chief fire officer, R C Sharma, and will meet him again now.
When Neelam asks Sharma that why there has not been any improvement in the condition of the building in last one year he refuses to comment.
“We have inspected during this year at least 700 buildings and we have issued this connection order for at least 300 buildings,” says the fire officer.
But, Neelam is not convinced by his answer and says, “You have to make sure that these kind of buildings are ceased This is the only way people are going to learn.”
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