mumbai the maharashtra chamber of housing industry mchi wants the state government to disband the highrise committee instead two panels comprising fire experts and structural engineers should be formed to certify construction projects an mchi team told cm prithviraj chavan on thursday later chavan met another developers team affiliated to the confederation of real estate developers association of india credai builders who said the current process of approvals is cumbersome argued that the civic bodys fire department is not equipped with the latest firefighting technology for highrises beyond 70 m further they said the committee is burdened with a slew of projects and therefore approvals take time under the current building approval process a highrise panel certifies the soil quality at the building site fire safety norms and structural stability of a building before the civic body gives the final goahead the cm assured developers that he would contact the environment and forest ministry to discuss the difficulties they face in implementing guidelines on building height restrictions our concern is who will be held accountable if the building collapses what if the project is approved by private experts if tragedy strikes the civic commissioner will be held responsible not the private experts in the recent mumbra tragedy 10 civic officials are already behind bars an officer said bmc representatives said they were working on a plan to grant building approvals within 60 days