IIT Guwahati to audit steel dome collapse in under construction Meghalaya Assembly building

The CM said the Assembly building was a highly technical project, as a project of this nature has never been done in the whole of North East.

IIT Guwahati to audit steel dome collapse in under construction Meghalaya Assembly building

Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma has announced that the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati will audit the collapse of a steel dome from atop the under-construction Assembly building. He further said that during the high powered committee of the Assembly it was decided to entrust a third-party institution to conduct an audit and investigate the incident. 

On Sunday, the steel dome atop the under-construction Assembly building collapsed. "We expect them (IIT Guwahati) to come in the next couple of days and inspect. A complete study will be done," the chief minister said. He further said that the audit will be completely independent in nature and independent from both the stakeholders – designer and the contractor – and also from the government.

The CM said the Assembly building was a highly technical project, as a project of this nature has never been done in the whole of North East. "As per my knowledge I think nowhere in the eastern region this kind of project has been tried out so it was very highly technical and very complicated both from design and construction point of view," Sangma said.

He also urged all the concerned to wait for the inquiry report to get the real picture of the entire incident, adding that it will be too premature to jump to any conclusion and blame anyone. "Let the inquiry report come out and we will make a decision," he said.

The work on the new Assembly building began in 2019 and was scheduled to end by July this year. The 70-tonne steel dome crashed at around 12.30 am on Sunday. The new Meghalaya Legislative Assembly building was being constructed as the old Assembly building was destroyed in a fire in 2001. 

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