A seven-year-old boy, Nikunj Chaudhary, was left injured after a heavy chunk of plaster unexpectedly collapsed from a balcony in the BPTP Amstoria society, located in Sector 102, Gurugram. The incident occurred while the child was playing near flat number A-31 on the ground floor; the debris fell from a second-floor balcony, leaving the boy with serious head injuries. He was immediately rushed to a nearby hospital, where his condition is currently reported as stable.
The incident has sparked outrage among the society’s residents, who allege that the builder used substandard construction materials, leading to frequent similar accidents. Residents claim they pay over Rs 60,000 annually in maintenance charges—amounting to Rs 15,000 every three months—yet they feel their lives are constantly at risk due to poor maintenance.
Despite previous complaints regarding crumbling plaster on balconies and walls, the residents feel that the builder and maintenance agency have ignored their safety concerns, effectively waiting for a major disaster to occur. Following the collapse, which caused panic in the society, the victim’s parents are now moving to file a formal police complaint against the builder and the maintenance agency, holding them directly responsible for the incident.
This recurring crisis highlights a broader failure in the administration’s oversight of residential infrastructure. Previously, former Deputy Commissioner Nishant Yadav had mandated structural audits for housing societies in the region to prevent such collapses. However, these crucial safety audits appear to have been shelved or abandoned, leaving residents in complexes like BPTP Amstoria vulnerable to the same construction defects that the audits were intended to identify and remediate.
