Hyderabad: When it was officially calculated in 2016, more than 12,000 illegal structures standing high in the area intended under GO 111.
Five years because – when the Telangana Government was trapped in legal axes – the number had grown five times, claims for environmental activists Hyderabad.
This despite the decision by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) who stayed all activities in this construction belt spread across 84 villages that fell in the catchment area from Hyderabad’s largest water lake – Osmansagar and Himayattasagar.
The recent TOI visit to Shamshabad, Moinabad, Shankerpally – three main bags covered by the 1996 Order (GO 111) – confirmed that real estate activities were booming in this area.
From restaurants, bars and swan conventions, educational institutions, luxury villas and high commercial companies, the landscape is filled with concrete structures.
‘If illegal construction continues, City will soon repeatedly repeatedly 1908 this flood is not limited to arterial roads.
Construction activities have absorbed into the interior too, with small villages now wearing expansive warehouses, houses and boards ‘plots for sales’.
Price: Rs 2-3 Crore Per Acre Average.
Local residents claimed realty business here took steps especially post 2018 after leaders trs promised to memo away 111 if the party returned to power.
That was in a hurry that the industrial survey registered Shankerpally as one of the hottest property destinations in the city today, although mostly fell within 10 km of osmansagar full tank level radius (FTL).
“What happened in these fields was a violation of the legal law,” said Activist Thakur Rajkumar Singh, as well as the applicant in the case of NGT.
Quoting a court order, he said: “People do not realize that if this continues, Hyderabad will soon see the repetition of flooding 1908 because the two reservoirs are mainly built for the management of flood water and not the purpose of drinking.” Despite the recurring efforts, Arvind Kumar, the main secretary, City Administration and Urban Development and Kishore Funds, the Managing Director of the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board, cannot be contacted for comments.