Plasters peel off, cracks appear in beams of NBCC construction in Gurugram

Harish Pant, a retired senior Central government official, spent around ₹8 lakh on the interiors of his three-bedroom flat at ‘NBCC Green View’ group housing project in Sector 37 D here in January last year so he could shift to his “dream home” with his family. But it has been more than a year since, and his dream to spend his retired life in his own home still eludes him.

The lockdown caused the delay and then when he visited the flat in August, he was left aghast to see its condition. “I was shocked to see large cracks on two walls of the living room. The moulding tiles in the adjoining bedroom had come off on its own. The cracks only widened during subsequent visits. I have got them repaired now, but still in a fix whether to shift or not,” said Mr. Pant, former Director, Federation of Indian Export Organisations. He claimed that he also wrote to the NBCC chief twice, but there was no response. Though it has been a little over three years since the sprawling 18-acre housing project of National Buildings Construction Corporation (India) Limited, a blue-chip Government of India Navratna enterprise, was completed in 2017-end, it is hard to miss large patches of plasters peeling off the towers and walls exposing the rusted reinforcement and the cracks in beams, columns and slabs. It does not just make the buildings look dilapidated, the residents said that they were too scared to live in the “dangerous” structures.