ELEVATORS are essential for highrise buildings. But poor maintenance and the absence of a regulatory body to check their fitness and assure its safety lead to dangerous consequences and many a time results in f atal accidents.
At frequent intervals one reads or hears horrific stories of tragic and mostly f atal elevator accidents.
It is deplorable that there is no government body to check elevator safety standards and the building occupants also have an indifferent attitude towards sharing responsibility for maintenance cost.
The organisation tasked with verifying elevator fitness should have the powers to disconnect the electricity supply to unfit elevators.
