Expert team from IIT Roorkee visits Devaraja Market and Lansdowne building in Mysuru for inspection

An adept squad from IIT Roorkee visited the Devaraja Market and the Lansdowne Building successful Mysuru connected Monday arsenic portion of a preliminary survey of the 2 practice structures.

The sojourn by a four-member squad led by Umesh Kumar Sharma followed the Supreme Court’s caller absorption to IIT Roorkee to measure if Devaraja Market and Lansdowne Building tin beryllium preserved arsenic practice structures.

The Supreme Court had directed the Director of IIT Roorkee to represent an adept committee to measure if the 2 buildings tin beryllium preserved arsenic practice structures portion proceeding a plea filed by G. Satyanarayana alias Gouri Satya and others against the Karnataka government’s determination to the demolish and reconstruct the Devaraja Market and the Lansdowne Building.

Taking enactment of a study by Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) that the “structures tin beryllium preserved and immoderate repair/retrofitting is required to beryllium undertaken”, the Supreme Court said the workout by IIT Roorkee should beryllium undertaken astatine the earliest and a study should beryllium filed successful a sealed screen wrong a play of 8 weeks from the day of the directive connected September 2.

Meanwhile, president of Devaraja Market Shopkeepers’ Association Mahadev said officials from the Mysuru City Corporation, too, accompanied the adept squad from IIT Roorkee during its sojourn to the practice operation connected Monday.