bye-bye laws: ...and it all came tumbling (Lal Dora houses in Delhi)

Two house collapses, mere days apart, have raised questions about the 
functioning of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD). The incidents 
have not only highlighted the very real possibility that MCD officials 
played a large role, along with the police, in allowing such structures 
to come up, but also focused on the sad lack of quality control.

According to standing committee chairman Vijender Gupta, most of the 
illegal constructions in the city were in village abadi areas and 
unauthorised colonies where no building bylaws applied. And MCD still 
has no idea about the extent of the problem as no survey has ever been 
done.

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Delhi/And_it_all_came_tumbling/articleshow/2921640.cms