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Hyderabad Disaster Response and Asset Protection Agency (HYDRAA) commissioner A.V. Ranganath felicitated the residents of RK Puram Officers’ Colony for their persistent efforts successful reclaiming a 3,000-square-yard parkland from encroachment.
Praising them for their decades-long struggle, helium called them relation models for protecting nationalist spaces and inspiring civic responsibility.
The parkland land, primitively designated successful a 1968 layout, had been illegally occupied implicit the years by encroachers who created 4 plots successful it utilizing fraudulent documents. Despite favourable judgments by District Court successful 2003 and the High Court successful 2007 directing that the onshore beryllium maintained arsenic a park, the contented remained unresolved owed to permissions the encroachers aboriginal obtained nether the Layout Regularisation Scheme (LRS).
However, residents continued their ineligible conflict and approached authorities aggregate times. In 2025, they sought involution done the HYDRAA Prajavani programme. After the Telangana High Court lifted a enactment bid past November, the officials acted swiftly.
HYDRAA besides wrote to the GHMC, to instrumentality measures to cancel the gathering permissions and the LRS approvals associated with the site. The GHMC revoked its ain permissions and further issued a missive to the HMDA regarding the matter.
On March 25, HYDRAA cleared the encroachments, fenced the country and installed signboards redesignating it arsenic parkland land.
