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The Telangana High Court connected Friday issued notices to the governments of the State and the Centre, aft proceeding arguments successful 2 PIL petitions seeking suspension of GO Ms No. 27 issued connected November 22 permitting concern portion owners to person their lands into residential apartments and commercialized complexes.
The seat of Justices P. Sam Koshy and S. Chalapathi Rao directed the governments to record antagonistic affidavits successful the substance by December 29. While 1 petition was filed by environmentalist and retired prof K. Purushotham Reddy, the 2nd by K.A. Paul aka Killari Anand Paul. Both questioned the legality and law validity of the GO brought retired by the State authorities arsenic portion of Hyderabad Industrial Lands Transformation Policy.
K.A. Paul, appearing arsenic party-in-person, contended that the GO permitting conversion and alienation of 9,292.53 acres of concern onshore for different purposes similar residential, commercial, acquisition etc was the biggest scam successful the past of the country. The full estimated worth of the onshore was astir rupees six lakh crore, helium added. He sought an bid to support presumption quo vis-a-vis alienation of the lands.
Senior counsel Vivek Reddy, appearing for Purushotham Reddy, said the caller GO facilitated conversion of concern lands for operation of schools, hospitals oregon residential buildings. However, specified conversion of the concern onshore for different goals mandated changes to the Master Plan of the HMDA. The caller GO was issued successful contravention of different GO passed successful 2013. The GO of 2013 stated that concern lands cannot beryllium utilized for immoderate different intent till each the existing concern units were moved retired of the metropolis outskirts.
The Advocate General A. Sudarshan Reddy contended the main nonsubjective of the authorities successful issuing the GO was to marque the metropolis contamination free. The authorities wanted each the polluting concern units retired of the city. Before the authorities adjacent started acting successful that direction, the petitioners moved the court, helium said. He assured the seat that nary conversion of lands would beryllium permitted till each the contamination causing units were moved retired of the city.
The Advocate General assured the Court that the Telangana authorities volition not licence conversion of the concern onshore to beryllium utilized for immoderate different purpose, till each the polluting industries successful Balanagar, Kattedan and Kukatpally are moved retired of the GHMC limits without diluting the provisions of the GO issued successful 2013. Further, the AG contended that objections volition beryllium called from the public, anterior to amending the Master Plan.
AG, during the people of proceeding of the 2 PILs said “we are not mounting up Industrial Zones… we are removing and shifting the Industrial Zones to the outskirts of the city, truthful that Pollution is chopped down and it is the apprehension of the Petitioners that the Telangana Government is permitting conversion of Industrial lands for different purposes”. The proceeding was adjourned to December 12.
