"Bawana Warehouse Fire: Civic Bodies In Delhi Violating Norms, Records Say." 21 January 2018 

Bawana [factory fire] is not an isolated case, but the entire national capital is a virtual tinderbox as the civic bodies have, over the years, granted factory licences violating norms, according to official records.

Ten women and seven men were killed while a man and woman were injured in a massive blaze at a firecracker storage unit in outer Delhi's Bawana industrial area...[20 January]

Barely a month before the Bawana cracker unit tragedy, the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) had pulled up civic bodies for indiscriminately granting licences to industrial units.

In an official order, the DPCC...said the "root cause" of the proliferation of illegal industrial units was the fact that people are obtaining licences from the civic bodies, despite not having the "mandatory" consent from the pollution board.

It also reprimanded agencies such as the Delhi Jal Board (DJB), which comes under the city government, and the power distribution companies of issuing water and electricity connections to such illegal industrial units...