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LIVE UPDATES: Supertech Noida Twin Towers Demolition: The charging process - placing of explosives - was completed on Monday evening and the next procedure, known as trunking, started on Tuesday. A total of 40 people, including blasters and trained workers, had started charging the Ceyane (29 storeys) and Apex (32 storeys) towers together on August 13, according to an official of Edifice Engineering, the firm hired to demolish the twin towers.
LIVE UPDATES: Supertech Noida Twin Towers Demolition: The rigging of both the illegal towers of Supertech in Noida with around 3,700 kgs of explosives was completed for their scheduled demolition on August 28. The charging process - placing of explosives - was completed on Monday evening and the next procedure, known as trunking, started on Tuesday. A total of 40 people, including blasters and trained workers, had started charging the Ceyane (29 storeys) and Apex (32 storeys) towers together on August 13, according to an official of Edifice Engineering, the firm hired to demolish the twin towers.Later, the team focused on Ceyane alone and completed its charging by August 17 and then moved to Apex, where the work was completed on Monday, the official said. Here are all the LIVE UPDATES on Supertech Noida Twin Towers Demolition:-
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The nearly 100-metre tall towers, which came up illegally in Emerald Court's premises, will become India's tallest structures to be safely demolished by implosion technique in pursuance of a Supreme Court order.
She and her family members, including her husband, an infant baby and parents-in law, will be going to their relatives' place in Noida on August 28.
The support of our residents' groups and flow of information regarding the do's and don'ts for the evacuation on August 28 has been good, she said, standing on her ground-floor apartment's balcony with the soon-to-be-demolished towers in sight.
Sabiqa Abbas of Emerald Court said the anxiety among residents is palpable and been part of their daily discussions of late.
Uday Bhan Singh Teotia (75), the president of Emerald Court residents' association said, The adjoining Parsvnath Srishti, Parsvnath Prestige and Eldeco Utopia have offered to provide space in their community clubs to anyone from our societies who want to go there for the demolition period.
Around 2,700 vehicles from both the societies will also be removed. The residents would be allowed to return after 4 pm only after safety clearance from officials.
ATS' Chaturvedi, a retired central government bureaucrat said, Considering that it's an unprecedented event with not much document evidence of such demolitions except for the Maradu complexes in Kerala, there is a fear of the unknown among residents. According to officials overseeing the evacuation preparations, all residents of Emerald Court and ATS Village in Sector 93A, along with more than 150 pets, will have to vacate their homes by 7 am while the security staff of these societies will also be moved out latest by 12 pm on Sunday.
Emerald Court's Rajesh Rana (63), whose flat in Aster 2 tower is just nine metres from the twin towers, said these days the demolition is the only topic of discussion for them and it has been like this since the last few weeks. "Of course there is anxiety among people but we are more happy than worried about the demolition. It's a result of a long struggle for us," Rana told PTI, expecting the demolition process to be successful.
Around 5,000 residents of the two societies will be the most impacted when the structures go down at 2.30 pm on August 28, leaving behind a whopping 55,000 tonnes of debris.
Demolition of Supertech's twin towers here has been a major talking point among residents of neighbouring Emerald Court and ATS Village societies who are happy with the scheduled razing but also gripped with the fear of the unknown. The nearly 100-metre tall towers, which came up illegally in Emerald Court's premises, will become India's tallest structures to be safely demolished by implosion technique in pursuance of a Supreme Court order, project officials said.
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-The rigging of both the illegal towers of Supertech in Noida with around 3,700 kgs of explosives has been completed for their scheduled demolition on August 28.
-The charging process - placing of explosives - was completed on Monday evening and the next procedure, known as trunking, started on Tuesday.
-A total of 40 people, including blasters and trained workers, had started charging the Ceyane (29 storeys) and Apex (32 storeys) towers together on August 13, according to an official of Edifice Engineering, the firm hired to demolish the twin towers.
-Later, the team focused on Ceyane alone and completed its charging by August 17 and then moved to Apex, where the work was completed on Monday, the official said.
-"We had made a schedule to complete the charging process by August 26. We had kept a buffer period for ourselves in order to make sure that the work gets completed in any case well before the scheduled demolition at 2.30 pm on August 28" the Edifice official said.
-"Now that the charging is complete, the next work is to connect all explosives together and then recheck these 20,000 connections in both the towers. After that is done, a main connection with the detonator will be made on the day of demolition only," the official added.
-Of the 40 workers present at site for charging, only 10 would remain on August 28.
-Among them would be two Indian blasters and Edifice project manager Mayur Mehta and seven members of its South African expert partner Jet Demolition, according to the official.
-The nearly 100-metre tall structures are scheduled for demolition in pursuance of a Supreme Court order that found the twin towers in Sector 93A were built in violation of norms.
As per the plan, the Noida-Greater Noida Expressway, which is close to the twin towers, will remain unavailable for vehicular movement from 2.15 pm to 2.45 pm on the day of demolition.
The nearly 100-metre tall twin towers are scheduled for demolition at 2.30 pm on August 28.
As per the evacuation plan, more than 5,000 residents of Emerald Court and ATS Village societies will have to vacate their homes by Sunday morning. Over 2,500 vehicles will also be removed from there.
"What mechanism has been made to ensure that illegal construction are detected and stopped early and that homebuyers can easily differentiate between legal and illegal construction. Some guidelines in this regard would have helped," Upadhyay said. Before demolition, he said it must be ensured that all allottees in both towers have been refunded money with interest or given alternate accommodation.
Upadhyay said exemplary punishment should also be given to all officials who were found to be working hand in gloves. "Otherwise, the same situation may continue after a temporary pause," Upadhyay cautioned. The FPCE President suggested that there should be a mechanism to let homebuyers know what they are buying is illegal or legal.
In August last year, the Supreme Court had ordered demolition of the twin 40-storey towers (Apex and Ceyane), which are part of Supertech's Emerald Court project in Noida, Uttar Pradesh. There are over 900 flats in these two towers.
"The demolition order...By the Supreme Court is certainly a landmark moment in the real estate history of India. This should act as a big deterrent for builders to not resort to illegal construction," FPCE President Abhay Upadhyay told PTI.
The demolition of Supertech's twin towers in Noida scheduled for August 28 should act as a deterrent for builders resorting to illegal construction, homebuyers' apex body FPCE said on Tuesday. The Forum For People's Collective Efforts (FPCE), an umbrella body of homebuyers that played an important role in enactment and implementation of RERA, also demanded that dues of all aggrieved homebuyers be cleared before the demolition exercise.
The exclusion zone also includes a patch of Noida-Greater Noida Expressway, where vehicular traffic would remain halted from 2.15 pm to 2.45 pm on August 28, he said.
"However, drones could be used beyond the exclusion zone but for that a permission would be required from the local police well in advance," Singh said.
"The exclusion zone will include an area of 450 metres in front side of the twin towers overseeing a road and a city park. On the other sides of the towers, the exclusion zone will be till 250 metres," Gautam Buddh Nagar's Deputy Commissioner of Police (Headquarters) Ram Badan Singh told PTI. "The exclusion zone will be a 'no fly zone' for drones.
While all residents of two adjoining societies -- Emerald Court and ATS Village -- would be evacuated, an exclusion zone has been marked around the twin towers where no person, vehicle or animal would be allowed during the demolition process, the officials said.
The nearly-100 metre tall structures -- taller than Delhi's iconic Qutub Minar -- in Noida's Sector 93A would be razed to ground at 2.30 pm on Sunday.
They added that drones will be allowed beyond the exclusion zone only on the basis of permission by the police.
Drones will not be allowed to fly in the "exclusion zone" of Supertech's illegal twin towers when they will be demolished on August 28, officials said on Wednesday.
The measures are being taken as safety precaution, according to officials, who said around 3,700 kilograms of explosives has been rigged into the skeletal structures of the twin towers for implosion. The razing of the Apex and Ceyane towers would leave behind a whopping 35,000 cubic metres of debris -- a large part of which would be accommodated in the basement of the towers while remaining would be moved out to an isolated location within Noida and processed scientifically, they said.
The demolition of Supertech's twin towers in Noida's Sector 93A comes in pursuance of a Supreme Court order that found the structures to be illegal and built in violation of norms.
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