Green Tech Miles defies GMDA norms, its order too

By our Staff Reporter

Guwahati, March 18: Putting the lives of the employees of The Sentinel at great risk, the company, Green Tech Miles, owned by Ashok Kumar Garodia, Santosh Garodia and Dilip Garodia continued with their construction work of a B+G+7 residential-cum-commercial apartment adjacent to The Sentinel building at Six Mile, Guwahati until an order reached them to stop their work.

Earlier, despite several requests by The Sentinel magement to put all precautions in place as the construction had led to cracks in the newspaper building’s boundary wall, thereby  endangering  the foundation of the building and the lives of its employees, the company continued with its work without any regard to human life and security. Subsequently, an FIR was lodged at Dispur Police Station which prompted the police to inspect the site and ask the company to take necessary steps to ensure that no further damage was caused to The Sentinel building. The police’s directive went unheeded. When such requests were not heeded, The Sentinel was forced to move the Guwahati Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA).

Interestingly, the GMDA passed its order and served its notice to the company to stop its construction work on March 16 around 2 pm, but their work continued at the same pace until 9 pm when the police came to the scene and stopped all work.

It is clear that the company in question was in total defiance of the GMDA order, apart from its scant regards to human life and security. For them, the profit factor mattered far more than the human life factor.