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Funding from the Asian Development Bank for the Musi Riverfront Development project is not yet finalised, and the multilateral improvement bureau is inactive to springiness its motion for the project.
In a reply received by the Musi Jan Andolan to a query connected the flagship task of the Telangana State government, the ADB representatives said that the Musi Riverfront Development task was posed by the Government of India, for financing, but it was ‘not yet listed connected the ADB website’.
Responding to the concerns raised by the civilian nine collective, the slope assured that the issues would beryllium examined during the owed diligence process, too redirecting them to the Musi Riverfront Development Corporation oregon immoderate due authorization successful the Telangana government.
Revealing the details done a media league connected Friday, the representatives of the MJA sought to gully attraction of the government, media and citizens to the superior concerns astir the project, including the interaction connected ecology, and communities surviving on the stream belt, portion seeking reappraisal of the full project.
Speakers astatine the conference, including Jeevan Kumar and Syed Bilal from Human Rights Forum, K.Sajaya from Women and Transgenders JAC, Meera Sanghamitra from National Alliance of People’s Movements, and Varghese Thekanath from CHATRI, pointed retired that the authorities has not yet indicated the nonstop nationalist intent of the project, whether it is cleaning, beautifying, rejuvenating oregon commercialising the Musi stream and its banks.
There person not been immoderate antiauthoritarian discussions and consultations with the affected communities and civilian society, they said, and demanded that the State authorities instantly clarify arsenic to wherefore and connected what ground were 400 mediocre families evicted from 3 slums successful Chaderghat and Malakpet without pursuing owed procedures.
There is nary clarity connected the Detailed Project Report, arsenic the authorities had admitted arsenic precocious arsenic connected October, 2025, that DPR was not available. Without a DPR successful place, however could the authorities of Telangana transportation organization and authorities lands to the grade of 734 acres on Easa stream to the MRDCL, a connection from MJA questioned, and wondered what was the ground for the pre-feasibility report.
The authorities should besides uncover the enactment taken to power and show the contamination caused by industries, successful the stream for decades. Alleging that the task forcibly displaced radical from their homes and livelihoods, to beforehand existent property and profiteering tourism, portion falsely projecting this arsenic a ‘public purpose’ project, the MJA declared that a antiauthoritarian on-ground ineligible conflict volition beryllium waged if the authorities stubbornly goes up without paying attraction to the concerns.
