Harish Rao demands Assembly debate on sale of prime lands at throwaway rates

HYDERABAD

The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has alleged that the Congress Government was conspiring to dispose of invaluable onshore chunks of 9,300 acres successful the concern estates astatine throwaway prices and agreements were done for the lands already.

Addressing a property league present connected Saturday, erstwhile curate T. Harish Rao said the Hyderabad Industrial Land Transformation Policy (HILTP) was so a onshore looting argumentation aimed astatine transforming the fortunes of those adjacent to Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, arsenic the authorities was heavy subsidising the onshore merchantability to its “near and dear” ones.

Ridiculing the statement of Minister for Industries and IT D. Sridhar Babu that the authorities was simply pursuing the GO (policy) brought successful by the erstwhile BRS government, Mr. Harish Rao said the BRS authorities had disposed of immoderate chunks of concern lands for dual usage - 50% each for IT/employment procreation and residential/other - with the terms fixed astatine 200% of the SRO (sub-registrar office/registration) value.

However, the Congress authorities was readying to springiness distant the lands astatine lone 30% of the SRO worth for multi-purpose usage without immoderate information for employment generation. Further, they had besides decided to waive the HMDA Non-Agricultural Land Assessment (NALA) and Conversion of Land Use (CLU) fee, which would different bring successful different ₹13,500 crore to the exchequer for multi-purpose use.

Quoting Mr. Sridhar Babu’s connection that the onshore merchantability would get lone up to ₹5,000 crore gross to the government, Mr. Harish Rao sought to cognize however the authorities could dispose of lands valued astatine astir ₹4 lakh crore to ₹5 lakh crore to specified a meagre value.

He saw a conspiracy arsenic agreements for the lands to beryllium disposed disconnected were already signed overmuch earlier operationalising the argumentation (HILTP). He demanded that the authorities convene the Assembly league to sermon the issue.