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The Hyderabad Disaster Response and Assets Monitoring and Protection Agency (HYDRAA) connected Tuesday undertook large operations to support 2 h2o bodies successful abstracted locations of Rangareddy district, reclaiming encroached water areas and adjoining authorities land.
In 1 operation, HYDRAA restored the footprint of the 6.05-acre Eedula Kunta successful Khanamet colony of Serilingampally mandal, allegedly erased done encroachments. The bureau besides secured an adjoining 5.16-acre authorities onshore parcel. In different action, HYDRA removed encroachments astatine Kotha Cheruvu successful Kokapet colony of Gandipet mandal and stopped attempts to inhabit upstream water onshore by constructing a bund done the h2o body.
The enactment followed complaints from section residents, and tract verifications were carried retired jointly with Revenue, Irrigation and municipal authorities.
Located successful Hyderabad’s IT corridor, Eedula Kunta successful Survey No. 7 of Khanamet colony was erased aft flood channels feeding the water were diverted and its boundaries, altered. The water is portion of the hydrological web of lakes including Thammidikunta and Sunnam Cheruvu.
Residents approached HYDRAA alleging that the water was being gradually erased to facilitate operation activity. The substance is besides pending earlier the National Green Tribunal. Following tract inspections, HYDRAA identified traces of the water and confirmed its beingness done colony and Revenue records, supported by outer imagery from the National Remote Sensing Centre.
Officials demarcated the water bound and initiated fencing connected Tuesday. HYDRAA besides reclaimed 5.16 acres of adjacent authorities onshore successful the process.
Officials said ambiguity arising from the bound overlap of Kukatpally and Serilingampally mandals has been exploited by the encroachers who obtained permissions for operation wrong Kukatpally limits, but carried retired the encroachment of the water successful Serilingampally mandal. The facts came to airy during HYDRAA Commissioner A.V. Ranganath’s tract inspection earlier the onshore was secured.
At Kokapet’s Kotha Cheruvu, with a Full Tank Level (FTL) country of 72 acres, HYDRAA officials recovered that a bund was constructed done the lake, manufacturing onshore up to 20 acres upstream. A builder planned full unfastened abstraction of his layout wrong the FTL area, utilizing it to make hoops and volleyball courts, and children’s play area.
Acting connected this, officials removed fencing and impermanent structures raised wrong the water country and fenced disconnected the full water FTL, the connection informed.
