chandigarh most of the buildings in the citys heart are quite congested and in such a chaotic shape that they pose a direct threat to thousands of visitors who frequent the area on a regular basis this shocking revelation has come out following an inspection of all the buildings in the commercial sector three teams of the civic body had kicked off an intensive inspection exercise which took almost three months with each team submitting their respective reports to the officers a week ago based on the report the civic body issued notices to the owners of buildings and gave them a time of one month to comply with the fire safety norms or face the music all aspects from availability to the condition of the firefighting equipment earmarked passages availability of water and other things during a fire public safety points etc were considered during the inspection report and shockingly it came out that not even a single building in the entire sector is following the laid down norms of fire safety there are over 500 buildings in sector 17 said an mc official after sending the notices i have called a meeting of all stakeholders and asked them to make their building firesafe by following the norms we have given time to violators until may and if things are not brought in order by that time we have decided to seal all buildings not following the norms the internal process has already started in this regard said municipal commissioner vivek partap singh significantly sources of the mcs fire wing revealed that most of the shops situated underground in sector 17 are an open invitation for any fire tragedy these shops are so congested that if any incident happens then hardly any rescue operation can be undertaken there besides that the hanging of wires in open on the floor of the buildings is also another live threatno lessons learnt this is not the first time that fire had occurred at the thirty base building on wednesday night even last year there was a fire incident in the building and notices had been served to this building for violating fire safety norms a major fire was witnessed last year in the national institute of electronics and information technology nielit known as the best governmentrun centre for computer education after the fire the building collapsed and two firemen died at the spot blocked passages lack of firefighting system alteration in design covered external parts and narrow staircases were the major violations in the building