aRTICLE | Fire Safety Compliance
Fire Incidents: Charring dreams of resilient Indian Cities Fire is one of the five basic elements of Earth, which give birth to all life on the planet. On the other hand, in its disastrous form, it can engulf buildings and cause loss of life and valuable infrastructure. As per the data of Accidental Deaths and Suicides in India released by the National Crime Record Bureau, from 2016 to 2020, fire related accidents have killed 35 people every day. In order to prevent this, the Government of India came up with the National Building Code of India (NBCI), which was amended and revised nine times between 1970 and 2015 Hitesh Nigam | Senior Sub-Editor
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he NBCI was revised a number of times due to continuous change in building patterns, new and innovative construction materials and technologies, greater need for preserving environment and planned management, etc. In lieu of this, a comprehensive revision of the Code was done in 2016, under the aegis of National building Code Sectional Committee, involving around 1000 experts. In Part 4 of the Code, fire and life safety procedures have also been
revised as per the requirements of modern complex buildings.
Recommendatory Policy
The NBCI is a recommendatory document issued by the Bureau of Indian Standards, and it is up to the state governments to decide the scale of implementation. Various experts have time and again underlined the importance of making NBCI, a compulsory policy for states in order
