India, May 29 -- Less than a month before the arrival of the monsoon, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) is severely lagging behind in its annual pre-monsoon survey of dangerous buildings with only 36.9% of the targeted structures covered as of May 23, officials aware of the exercise said on Wednesday.

According to MCD records, of the 2.83 million buildings scheduled to be surveyed this year, only 1,045,814 have been inspected so far. The progress report, a copy of which has been seen by HT, shows that MCD will now have to cover 1.78 million houses in just 22 days - or a whopping 81,000 houses every single day - to meet its June 15 deadline.

Even more surprisingly, the civic agency has yet to declare a single building "dangerous,"...