India, June 5 -- Delhi Lieutenant Governor Taranjit Singh Sandhu on Thursday chaired a high-level review of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi and directed officials to come up with a comprehensive plan to target, halt, and dismantle unauthorised constructions across the capital. The directives were issued a day after a hotel fire in Malviya Nagar killed 21 people and exposed how extensively buildings in the city have been expanded and modified without permission or inspection.

The LG directed MCD to implement a time-bound strategy to tackle unauthorised constructions decisively. "He asked for a regulatory framework that ensures strict enforcement of building bylaws, penalising illegal constructions and expansions, and fixes absolute ins...