“No Fly Zone” For Drones As Stage Set For Noida Mega Twin Towers Demolition
Noida:
The drones will not be allowed to fly in the “exclusion zone” of Supertech’s illegal twin towers when they will be demolished on August 28, officials said Wednesday.
They added that drones would be allowed outside the exclusion zone only with police permission.
The nearly 100-meter-tall structures – taller than Delhi’s iconic Qutub Minar – in Noida’s Sector 93A will be leveled at 2.30pm on Sunday.
Officials said that while all residents of the two adjacent societies – Emerald Court and ATS Village – will be evacuated, an exclusion zone has been marked around the twin towers, where no permission is allowed. people, vehicles or animals during demolition.
“The exclusion zone will include a 450 meter wide area in front of the twin towers that oversee a road and a city park. On the other sides of the tower, the exclusion zone will be up to 250 meters long. “, Gautam Buddh Nagar Deputy Commissioner for Police (Headquarters) Ram Badan Singh told PTI.
“The exclusion zone will be the ‘no-fly zone”.
The exclusion zone also includes a section of the Noida-Greater Noida Expressway, where vehicular traffic will be halted between 2:15 p.m. and 2:45 p.m. on August 28, he said.
Measures are being taken as a safety precaution, with officials saying about 3,700 kilograms of explosives were fitted to the twin towers’ skeletal structures to detonate.
The leveling of the Apex and Ceyane towers will leave a whopping 35,000 cubic meters of debris – a large part of which will be contained in the towers’ basements while the rest will be moved to a different location. Isolated mind in Noida and treated scientifically, they say.
The demolition of Supertech’s twin towers at Precinct 93A of Noida was ordered by the Supreme Court that found the structures to be illegal and built in violation of standards.