The High Powered Committee (HPC) has agreed to a new design of the dome, to be installed atop the under-construction assembly building.

According to the Chairman of the HPC and Speaker of the Meghalaya Assembly – Metbah Lyngdoh, the design associate forwarded the presentation of four designs before the committee members.

Based on the presentations, the committee agreed that the dome would be made of steel frames and partly fiber Glass Reinforced Concrete (GRC) material. It would also include Metal sheetings and pre-coated profile GI (Galvanized Iron) sheets.

The new dome would weigh around 250 to 300 metric tonnes, and the committee directed the design associates to submit the design within a month or 45 days.

The blueprint will be submitted to IIT-Roorkee for scrutiny, and the final vetting will be done by IIT-Guwahati.

Meanwhile, the committee has also comprehensively discussed the findings of the report submitted by IIT-Guwahati.

Lyngdoh also informed that debris of the collapsed dome, will be cleared by the end of November.

It is worth noting that the 70-tonne steel dome of the under-construction Meghalaya assembly building at Mawdiangdiang in New Shillong Township collapsed on May 22 at around 12:30 AM. As per reports, the dome collapsed due to a design flaw.