The discussion is about car parking but just go through this following news which talks about shattered dreams of some of the Chennaities. People paying EMI for the apartments that really don’t exist at all! How pathetic the plight of these people at Chennai.
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A year on, the nightmare lingers
For residents in the vicinity of the Moulivakkam building collapse site, the tragedy still casts a shadow on their lives
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- endless torment:Many residents near the fallen building have been asked to vacate their homes for fear of the second building of the complex collapsing —Photo: G. Krishnaswamy
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In Moulivakkam, near Porur, people still imagine they can hear the low thunderous boom that shook the area when the building collapsed a year ago. That, and the flashing images that keep coming back: the rubble, the bodies, the cries for help.
On June 28, 2014, a multi-storey building under construction on Kundrathur Main Road collapsed after a downpour. “It was a black Saturday, one that all of us want to forget,” says a resident of Rajarajan Nagar in Moulivakkam.
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http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/a-year-on-the-nightmare-lingers/article7359733.ece
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A year later, flat owners' trust at nadir
Many of them turn bankrupt since the Moulivakkam building collapse
A year after the 11-storey apartment complex under construction collapsed in Moulivakkam, a western suburb near Porur, families who had invested in the project feel they have been left in the lurch.
The Moulivakkam Trust Heights Affected Flat Buyers Association charged that neither the government nor bankers from whom they had borrowed huge sums were sensitive to their plight.
Many of them turned bankrupt since the building in which they invested their hard earned money collapsed, killing 61 people.
The association’s president Ratna Mishra said: “We pay the equated monthly instalments (EMIs) for a home that we do now own and with no sign of any response from the builders, the government and lending institutions, we bear the huge financial losses and go through severe stress everyday.”
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http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities...flat-owners-trust-at-nadir/article7365325.ece
