HILT is a land scam of ₹6.29 lakh crore, alleges BJP

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A. Maheshwar Reddy

A. Maheshwar Reddy | Photo Credit: Debosri Mitra _11312@Hyderabad

The Telangana BJP demanded that the precocious announced Hyderabad Industrial Land Transformation (HILT) argumentation by the Congress authorities beryllium instantly suspended and it should not beryllium implemented until the onshore valuation norms are revised to bespeak the existent marketplace rates.

At a property league astatine the State bureau connected Monday, legislature enactment person A. Maheshwar Reddy alleged that the argumentation is simply a monolithic onshore scam of ₹6.29 lakh crore arsenic it has permitted the conversion of 9,292 acres of onshore belonging to 22 concern estates and parks located wrong the Outer Ring Road (ORR) into multi-use zones.

The BJP person contended that the determination could pb to largescale misuse of invaluable nationalist assets, and the marketplace worth of these lands is arsenic precocious arsenic ₹2 lakh per quadrate yard. After accounting for 30% of onshore for infrastructure specified arsenic roads and drainage, the remaining 6,510 acres could fetch implicit ₹6.29 lakh crore if sold astatine prevailing marketplace rates.

Even if the authorities itself developed and sold plots done HMDA (Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority), the gross could wide each of Telangana’s outstanding debts and immoderate further improvement could perchance treble the returns, helium observed.

“However, the HILT allowing conversion astatine conscionable 30% of the Sub-Registrar Office (SRO) worth paves the mode for ‘land looting’. It is portion of a expansive plan for Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy to consolidate governmental powerfulness and power wrong the Congress astatine the nationalist level,” charged Mr. Reddy.

The authorities could person reclaimed these lands and repurposed them for nationalist use, including housing, acquisition institutions and infrastructure projects, helium suggested.

“IT & Industries Minister D. Sridhar Babu has besides acknowledged that akin practices occurred nether the BRS government, which converted concern lands nether the guise of ‘freehold’ rights, indicating that the irregularities of the erstwhile authorities are being continued,” said Mr Reddy.

Published - November 24, 2025 07:21 p.m. IST

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