Dhaka: Government will mark disaster-prone buildings in Dhaka city with distinguishable colours and put signboards inscribed ‘hazardous’ on the buildings.

Earthquake Preparedness and Awareness Committee said this in a meeting on Thursday, reports BBC.  

Disaster Management and Relief ministry secretary Shah Kamal said there are around 72,000 disaster-prone buildings in Dhaka.

Housing and Public Works Minister Mosharraf Hossain said though it is hard to mark the hazardous buildings and put signboards on those but it is not impossible.

‘After pointing the hazardous building we will try to keep the building or else the building will be demolished,’ he added.

However, the experts said it is difficult to mark the unsafe buildings.
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology professor Mehedi Ahmed Ansari said around 70,000 buildings are disaster-prone in the capital in case a 7.5 magnitude earthquake hit Madhupur.

Mehedi Ahmed said the numbers of risky building are estimated. It will be a difficult and time-consuming work to examine and to mark the hazardous buildings, he added.

Earlier, on 25 April, a magnitude-7.8 earthquake rocked Nepal with devastating force. The death tolls climb 6,000 till the date. The experts predicted the death toll will reach 10,000.  Earthquake tremors also felt in Dhaka and other parts of the country on the same day.