Posted On Sunday, June 24, 2012 at 01:20:47 AM Teenagers aren’t
supposed to die. But Sanjana Singh did. She was 17. She was just
one kilometer away from home. And her “mama” stood a few feet
away, looking for her; Sanjana didn’t know that. She was buried
under the debris of a 14 foot wall that should never have been
built. According to the Bureau of Indian Standards the size of
stones used for construction should not be less than 194 mm in
any direction; all joints in the wall should be full of mortar
and the thickness of the joints should be 20 mm; no hollow
spaces should be left anywhere in the masonry work; bond stones
should be provided on walls up to 600 mm thickness and for every
0.50 sq mt of the wall; mortar used should be in the ratio of
1:6 (cement and sand); weep holes should be provided at the rate
of one per 3 sq mt of the surface area of the wall wherever
there is back fill (earth) on any one side of the wall and
sloping towards the wall, because water will stagnate on that
side and the same wil