Mumbai: Electric audit will be undertaken every 3 years for 4-storey building and above as part of new rules. Electric audit will be now be important for every 4 storey building and above, cheif electrical inspector office under industries, energy and labour department will now carry out the inspection every 3 years for such buildings.
Under section 36 of Central Electrical Regulations, drafted in the year 2010, the BMC (Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation) has instructed the CEI to conduct audits of the building whose height is more than 15 metres.
CEI Officials has said in a statement that rules are already been properly constrcuted and drafted in a well-planned manner a notification has also been given
to Maharashtra state goverment regarding the same and approval will be granted within the next 15 days.
The cheif electrical inspector is the one usually conducts the electrical audits by appointing the safety engineers,
but the task has been given to us he added.
The response is not quite accepted but it will take some time, our whole team will start conducting the elctric audit for SRA & MHADA building as they more susceptible to fire due to lack of maintenance.
He said, “We are also going to write to the Urban Development Department to make an amendment in DCR (Development Control Regulation)
to make it compulsory to do electric audits and submit it to the local authority. People should not think of it as unwanted.” He further said that they have also requested the department to change the rule so that the audits come under the purview of the BMC.
Of the 48,434 fire incidents from 2008 to 2018, 32,516 were because of short-circuits.
Maharashtra fire act still does not have a provison for mandatory electrical audits and we need to make it compulsory all the norms of such electrical audit will be decided by electrical inspector of Maharashtra
said Hemant Parab chief fire officer of Mumbai Fire Brigade.
