In an action-filled daylong operation, the forces from the Hyderabad Disaster Response and Asset Protection Agency (HYDRAA) , unneurotic with different departments, cracked down connected the unauthorised structures successful the Bam Rukn Ud-Dowlah (Lake Rukn Ud-Dowlah) successful Shivarampally country of Rajendranagar mandal connected Saturday (August 10, 2024).
High hostility prevailed successful King’s Colony and Shastripuram areas arsenic the houses of immoderate VIPs were allegedly demolished.
Equipped with earthmovers, the forces pulled down respective structures which came up wrong the afloat vessel level (FTL) of the lake, which had been filled up by the encroachers implicit the past 8 months.
The structures allegedly included buildings owned by the legislator of Bahadurpura Constituency Mohammed Mubeen and MLC Mirza Rahmat Baig.
Mr. Ranganath enactment the fig of demolished structures astatine astir 12-13, which were each nether construction, and unoccupied. It was a associated cognition successful coordination with the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, Irrigation, Police, Fire, and Revenue departments, helium said. A full 10 acres of FTL has been reclaimed from the encroachers, helium said.
The encroachment and filling of the practice water had been agelong condoned by civic and gross authorities contempt objections raised by the Irrigation officials and acrophobic citizens.
In 2018 a lawsuit was filed successful the National Green Tribunal by activist-political person Lubna Sarwath, against encroachment of the occidental broadside of water wherever BT roads were laid.
Upon the court’s directions the adjacent year, the past main caput of Municipal Administration, Arvind Kumar surveyed the water unneurotic with the Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi.
In 2022 excessively a committee constituted by the cardinal contamination power committee surveyed the water unneurotic with the petitioner Sarwath and submitted their study astir encroachments and contamination of the lake.
However, nary enactment had been taken against encroachments, and during the past 8 months, adjacent the eastbound portion of the water excessively was wholly levelled and built upon. The enforcement authorities including Police & Revenue refrained from taking action, citing a High Court bid produced by the encroacher.
The bid simply directed the authorities not to interfere with the petitioner’s possession of his six acres of onshore successful Survey No. 42 successful the ‘Bumruknudowla village’ of Rajendranagar mandal, without pursuing the owed process.
Only 3.5 acres of the 12 acre onshore wrong Survey No. 42 falls into the lake’s FTL area, and nary Revenue enquiry was conducted to find the determination of the six acres claimed by the petitioner.
“We are not acrophobic with the contented of title. The contented present is of unauthorised operation without the required permissions from the civic body,” Mr. Ranganath said.
Mr.Ranganath said efforts volition beryllium made successful coordination with the GHMC, to reconstruct the water to its archetypal signifier and extent.
HYDRAA forces besides cleared amerciable structures from the Erla Cheruvu successful Chandanagar connected Saturday.
