INTRODUCTION:
A Sunday morning,and most of the hostellers wake up pretty late at about 9:30-10,but this Sunday wouldn't be like any other Sunday,due to the various events surrounding the Boys hostel.
The building which collapsed in the early hours today ,belongs to a landlord who is quite rich,and the College of Management(Those who don’t know the story and history of the building will call it a pharmacy college,but the fact is it isn't a pharmacy college,but a management one :))
According to the data present in Wikimapia,the college is called Goud’s College of Management.
The Past:
The owner of the building in question is supposed to have been waiting for this to happen,the story of the birth and death of this building/college is pretty filmy but true,according to the village sources.
The story has it that since the owner had plenty of black money he wanted to convert it all into liquid cash or call it “white” money.
So he started constructing this building/college close to 3-4 yrs ago,spending a couple of lakhs but showing bills worth double the amount it is the filmy style ,which you always see in loads of movies where the Bad guy tries to convert all the black money into unable money,and tries all the possible means.
this is a good example of one of it.
FUNCTIONAL:
One look at the buildings and you can be shit sure that it was meant to crash down,the pillars are way to thin to support a single slab forget about the two slabs which were raised.
Seeing it since the past three months,anyone could have easily guessed that the college was never meant to have been functional,since hardly any construction work has taken place in the last three months.
SENIORS:
A small chat with our seniors and they reveal that the construction of the building hardly progressed since there first year.
Those who have visited the college confirm that it is indeed a management college.
THE CRASH:
Each and every rudraramite,has got his/her own story on the way the building crashed and the time of crash.
Tough many claim that the building might have come down about 1:00’ odd.
But after a rudimentary research by the LAGH team,we would like to place the crash time at about 3:30 to 4:45 p.m.
THE DOMINO EFFECT:
The building crashed down in the wee hours of today morning,and it was accompanied by a “Thud”sound,which many villagers heard even those who were located at the other end of the Village,but we gitamites/hostellers hardly hear a whisper,this surprised many villagers they probably don’t know that many of the us in the hostel hit the bed around 2:30-3:00 and once we hit the beds you can blow trumpets near our ear,but we will never wake up :P.
DETAILS:
It is pretty pre-mature to come out with the minute details and the exact timeline of the events,and we prefer having some basic ground work done on the incident prior to publishing the timeline of the incident. :)
BIRDS EYE VIEW:
The terrace of the boys hostel was abuzz with activity for most part of the day with most of the students coming up to have a birds eye view of the building,and it was a sight to see,no one has ever seen such a structure collapse,and that too ,up,close and personal.
THE BREAKFAST:
The discussion at most of the tables today morning,wasn’t the about the food( Dosa’s,which were very delicious and We would also like to commend the excellent chutney served with it :)),but it was the missing neighbour of the boys hostel,and everyone had some theory or the other.
Note:Sorry,no pictures of the dosa :(
THE LAKE CONNECTION:
This part(the one which collapsed in the below picture) of the building is supposed to have been built on the area which was previously covered by the lake(We call it the GITAM lake),this is also the most effected part of the building Relatively,mind you :))
CAUSE:
This is the best part,We present a stunning five point explanation for the crash of the building.
- Heavy rains/Wind.
- Earthquake.
- Conspiracy to tap into the insurance.
- Devils handy work(Yes the boys hostel also experienced the haunted stories :P)
- terrible construction
RAIN!!
The first choice and most probably the fact,even thought the rain which lashed the village last night wasn’t all that powerful,the rainy season has been very harsh around here in rudraram,the prolonged lashing of the rains ,might have weakened the structure as a whole,complimented by the pathetic construction work/low quality material used,the building crashed down.
EARTHQUAKE:
The comic cause of all the causes,Earthquake.
It is simply not possible,since the boys hostel didn’t even feel a tremor,forget tremors there isn't a single new crack for the boys hostel,and right adjacent to the boys hostel a whole building came down due to an apparent earthquake!!
CONSPIRACY:
The owner of the building was waiting for it to happen.
The locals of rudraram,shared with LAGH under confidentially,that the owner might have played foul,and brought the building down,over a prolonged process,by using low quality material and everything for the reasons mentioned above,which are the conversion of black money to white.
This is quite possible,since the construction is pretty bad,and a member of LAGH who is a student of the Civil department,thought a novice in the field of construction,shared his view on the building.
The way the building is built ,is against the basic concept of bringing up a structure.
It is totally flawed,and even a layman can notice it.
DEVILS HANDY WORK:
This is even more comical,but a reasons never the less since they are quite some “believers” of the Ghost stories,which haunt this part of Rudraram.
Chop!!Chop!!
Ghosts don’t exists,but the theory is fun,may be Flying Fisherman(Those who directed the haunted Stories ),may team up with LAGH productions,and bring out a detailed documentary on this incident :P.
WHAT LAGH BELIEVES..
A combination of all these factors,(void the earthquake/haunted theories),mostly contributed by the way the building was construed ,is the reason the building collapsed.
CONCLUSION:
The hostellers are now confident,that the GITAM management did put up a good structure,and they are housed in a safe structure,or so they believe..:P
Post details:
Contribution : LAGH correspondent(s).
Picture Courtesy : Shutterbugs,Part of Lifeatgitamhyd.
Campus :Block A,Boys Hostel, GITAM University Hyderabad Campus.
Regards,
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