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Working president of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) and erstwhile curate for municipality improvement K.T. Rama Rao alleged that the Congress government’s projected Musi Riverfront task is not a genuine inaugural for the beautification of the Musi riverfront but a monolithic land-grab strategy targeting invaluable lands on the stream course.
Speaking astatine a programme connected “Musi Rejuvenation – PowerPoint Presentation Vs Public Point” held astatine Himayath Sagar connected Saturday, helium said the Musi could beryllium developed without causing harm to the public. He recalled that the erstwhile BRS authorities had developed astir six kilometres of the Musi stream agelong successful Uppal and Nagole successfully without demolishing a azygous house.
The erstwhile authorities had prepared a broad Musi improvement program with an estimated outgo of ₹16,000 crore, which included an expressway on the stream and respective infrastructure improvements. However, the contiguous authorities led by A. Revanth Reddy had projected a task worthy ₹1.5 lakh crore, which helium alleged was aimed astatine demolishing thousands of homes and facilitating large-scale corruption.
He criticised the authorities for moving up with the task without a Detailed Project Report (DPR), Social Impact Assessment, oregon Environmental Impact Study and without conducting consultations with the affected communities. The authorities was spreading fearfulness among thousands of residents by threatening large-scale demolitions.
The BRS person stated that their enactment was not opposed to Musi improvement but would powerfully defy immoderate attempts to transportation retired corruption oregon demolish people’s homes successful the sanction of the project. He alleged that the government’s existent volition was to get astir 3,300 acres of onshore on the Musi, whose full worth was estimated astatine astir ₹1.5 lakh crore.
He remarked that if the Namami Gange project, which covers hundreds of kilometres, was executed with a outgo of astir ₹42,000 crore, the State Government indispensable explicate wherefore ₹1.5 lakh crore was needed for processing conscionable 55 kilometres of the Musi river. He accused the Congress enactment of historically neglecting the Musi stream and turning it into a polluted drain during decades of its rule.
Demanding that the Congress enactment apologise to the radical of Hyderabad for the biology harm caused successful the past, the BRS moving president highlighted the BRS government’s attack and explained that they had planned respective measures specified arsenic operation of sewage attraction plants (STPs), expressways, walkways, cycling tracks, parks, bridges and cheque dams on with initiatives to forestall sewage from entering the river.
They had besides planned to bring caller h2o into the Musi done the Kaleshwaram task with an estimated outgo of astir ₹1,100 crore, helium noted. BRS Whip K.P. Vivekananda Goud, erstwhile curate P. Sabitha Indra Reddy, MLA B. Laxma Reddy, MLC Shambipur Raju, erstwhile Legislative Council Chairman K. Swamy Goud, R.S. Praveen Kumar and others attended.
