Chandigarh: Following the tragic incident in Delhi where three UPSC aspirants drowned in their flooded IAS coaching centre's basement, Chandigarh's estate office conducted inspections of coaching institutes in Sector 34 and found several institutes being converted basements into offices, reception areas, classrooms, or reading rooms, despite regulations explicitly prohibiting such usage.
Chandigarh's building bylaws strictly forbid using basements for residential purposes, stipulating their use exclusively for storage, parking, air-conditioning units, and other non-habitable functions.
Deputy Commissioner Vinay Pratap Singh said: "These institutes have been instructed to immediately vacate their basements. We will continue inspections at other centers in the upcoming days. Notices have been issued to all coaching institutes.”