Hyderabad: Of the many civilian problems that residents of the Cantonment Secunderabad (SCB) body – the area contracted to be rolled down, land encroachment is one of the most urgent.
This, due to the lack of city planning departments, they said.
In the absence of such wings – unlike the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation – no team is dedicated to checking illegal construction or encroachment in the Cantonment area.
Even complaints to SCB are often not considered because of this gap, said residents.
Seeing the official record of SCB shows that there are around 10,000 properties built on the soil that violates the limit within the cantonary boundary.
Graph topping is Rasoolpura followed by Mudefort, Bowenpally and Trimulryry.
According to officials and locals, most of these encroachment is in the opening, the footpath and open land – mostly occupied by vendors.
In a recent drive, the SCB engineering wings removed nearly 30 to 40 encroachment from Vasavi Nagar behind the Old Karkhana police station, but residents said that it was not enough.
“The problem is much wider.
But unfortunately, there is no accurate assessment of the properties that stand on waving land.
Recently, SCB decided to collect property tax on such buildings, to increase its income, but it is impossible to complete Larger problems arising from this illegality – disappeared Nalas.
Most of these encroachment has emerged in Nalas and Open Land Parcel.
The latter can be used to develop the regional infrastructure, “said Moses Prasad, a resident of Bowenpally.
Activists accused even though the problem had become a SCB official that was so severe had directed the eyes in the direction even though there were repeated complaints.
“They have no plans to establish separate city planning wings because they are not mentioned in the Cantonment Act.
In the absence of it, there are departments appointed to overcome complaints or monitor the illegality.
There are also many corruption while collecting taxes because there is no authority Competent to maintain a watch, “claiming Chandrasekhar ongoing from the Open Secunderabad Cantonment (Oscar) group (Oscar) and Alwal residents.
Due to the lack of city planning departments, many also say that the occupants of the Cantonment must depend on the president director, defense plantations for the final approval of the building plan – making it complicated procedures.
In comparison, in the GHMC, it is the Head of the City Planning Department or City Commissioner who is a competent authority.
The process is also faster, population claims.
“We don’t know what the procedure if the merger occurs but at this time, we have identified some encroachment and destroys it.
In some cases, we have given them a notification.
Regarding the permission to build, applicants must fill out the form and get the NOC from the airport authority before the application is referred to To the board.
The whole application process is still manual at SCB, “said Gopal Krishna, SCB Engineer.
Without city planning, SCB failed to push back wild residents
