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The Legislative Assembly cleared the A.P. Fire Service (Amendment) Bill, 2026, connected Wednesday, thereby enabling the State authorities to contented Fire Safety Certificates (FSCs) successful spot of No Objection Certificates (NOC) / licences and carrying retired different required changes, including considering each Fire Services arsenic Emergency Services, to the 26-year-old Act.
Minister for Home and Disaster Management Vangalapudi Anitha stated that FSCs were being fixed crossed the state successful compliance with the Central government’s ‘Model Bill to Provide for Maintenance of a Fire & Emergency Service- 2019 for the State’, which besides recommended that the States should follow specified laws required by their circumstantial needs and circumstances.
She stated that since the penalties stipulated nether the existing Act were outdated and nominal nether Sections 27, 28 and 29, they were being accrued from ₹500 to ₹10,000 and from ₹100 per time to ₹1,000 per time nether Section 31.
The Bill provided for adoption of the explanation of high-rise buildings arsenic contained successful the section municipal instrumentality and redefining high-rise buildings and updating the associated information mechanisms specified arsenic to conscionable the demands of accelerated urbanisation and industrialisation.
Also, the Bill provided for usage of precocious firefighting technologies to guarantee structural information of the high-rise and ace high-rise buildings nether operation successful Amaravati. All changes related to information of the high-rise buildings would beryllium successful compliance with the National Building Code of 2025.
Further, Ms. Anitha said the Bill facilitates the assignment of Fire Safety Supervisors successful accordance with the Model Fire Force Bill. Their relation would beryllium to guarantee some attraction and prime power of occurrence information installations, thereby reducing imaginable losses of beingness and property.
The basal nonsubjective of the Amendment Bill was to streamline processes related to occurrence services, guarantee their timely transportation and trim ambiguity done user-friendly provisions, Ms. Anitha said, adding that the government would edifice to the utmost measurement of seizing buildings arsenic a punishment for blatant usurpation of norms.
