The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has sealed 15 private school buildings across the city for failing to produce fire safety certificates required by the Gujarat Fire Prevention and Life Safety Measures Act, 2013.
“In respect to the clause for buildings and units under AMC limits to have Fire Safety Certificate (Fire NoC) and get it renewed from time to time, owners, trustees, management and occupants of 15 school buildings under AMC limits were repeatedly issued notices. These schools were personally informed and issued notices. But they failed to have the fire NOC or their fire certificates were not renewed within the stipulated time frame. So, as per rules, a total of 15 schools were sealed for not following fire safety rules,” an official statement issued by AMC’s Fire and Emergency Services department stated.
Primary and secondary schools are included in the list, with four in Prahladnagar, seven in Panchkuva, and two each in Shahpur and Jamalpur.
Commercial buildings that failed to comply with the Gujarat Fire Prevention and Life Safety Measures Act, 2013, have been sealed by the Fire and Emergency Services department.