Satya Niketan and India’s building safety crisis | Insight India

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The collapse of the five-storey Satya Niketan PG has put the spotlight back on India’s poor infrastructure and widespread lapses in safety during and after a building’s construction. In this episode, Sonikka Loganathan speaks to Dr. A. Srivathsan, architect, urban designer, and Principal Researcher and Head of the Centre for Research on Architecture and Urbanism at CEPT Research and Development Foundation, about the gaps between regulation, compliance, and governance — and what can be done to make India’s buildings safer.

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