During a review meeting held by the district in-charge minister last year, the officials had informed that the works will be completed by December, which was not materialized for various reasons.
It may be recalled that on March 18, 2006, the then chief minister H D Kumaraswamy and High Court Chief Justice Cyriac Joseph had laid the foundation for the new court complex. It has been seven years since the work was started. During this course of time, the cost of the project too has shot up by many folds.
Phases
The project was planned in three phases. A sum of Rs 1.05 crore was released for the first phase of the project. From May 25, 2006 to May 25, 2007, half of the ground floor and the parking slot were completed using this amount.
A sum of Rs two crore was released under second phase. Utilising this amount the pending ground floor works, pending car parking work, elevators and electricity room were completed. The next floor work was started using the same amount.
A sum of Rs 18 crore was released in third phase using which all the six floors with 30 court halls were taken up. The work on sixth floor was completed recently. At present the laying of the roof tiles and painting works are in progress.
What is in?
Ground floor has two family courts. First floor has Principal Judge's court hall and conference hall. Second floor has administrative block and third to sixth floor has 24 court halls in total.
There are three elevators provided for the building, of which one in the back will be dedicated only for the judges. Two in front will be for public use.
PWD Chief Engineer on inspecting the building has suggested for installation of transparent lifts, for which an estimation of Rs 1.5 crore has been prepared.
Water supply
The building will have a complete water supply plan of Rs 67 lakh. The plan will not just include drinking water system but, will also accommodate fire fighting system and other purposes in it.
Fire fighting system has been provided with a separate sump of one lakh liter capacity. Another overhead tank of 50,000 liter capacity has been installed to take care of daily usage. The fire fighting system of Rs 1.5 crore is said to be one of the latest.
The entire furnishing of the court complex is said to cost around Rs 8.5 crore. However, a sum of Rs 4.5 crore for this has already been released.
No Fire NOC
The norms of the fire department say that any building of 14.5 mts in height should have a road of 12 mts width. However, here the complex is 29.4 mts high and the road left is far lesser than the set norms. Hence the fire department has not given its No Objection Certificate yet.
In this regard, a new project of Rs 7.5 crore has been planned to lay a road of 12 mts width from SCDCC Bank to Mahendra Acade in Karangalpady.
One has to wait and watch if the departments concerned will make justice to the court complex or will continue find reasons to delay the completion.
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