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The Rajiv Rahadari Property Owners’ Joint Action Committee (JAC) has appealed to Hyderabad Collector Priyanka Ala to bounds the width of the projected elevated corridor connected State Highway-1 to 150 feet alternatively of the projected 200 feet successful the halfway commercialized and residential stretches, portion besides demanding enhanced compensation based connected prevailing marketplace rates.
In a practice submitted to the Collector connected Wednesday, the JAC said galore properties on the corridor person existed for 25 to 50 years. These see hospitals, retail stores, restaurants, market outlets and different work establishments that collectively supply employment to thousands of people.
The JAC stated that the country constitutes a vibrant commercialized loop with hundreds of idiosyncratic spot owners and claimed that spot values successful the locality are comparable to those successful upscale neighbourhoods specified arsenic Banjara Hills and Jubilee Hills. “The projected enlargement would necessitate demolition of 2 rows of buildings successful respective locations, starring to fiscal losses and altering the quality of the locality. We question compensation based connected the prevailing marketplace worth alternatively of authorities paper value,” said JAC president Telukunta Satish Gupta.
Referring to compensation paid successful Medchal district, the JAC said the Collectorate had sanctioned compensation of ₹1.1 lakh per quadrate yard, which was supra the prevailing marketplace worth and astir 10 times the paper value. In comparison, compensation being offered to affected owners successful Hyderabad varied betwixt ₹90,000 and ₹1.4 lakh per sq. yd., depending connected the locality, portion prevailing marketplace rates ranged betwixt ₹2.5 lakh and ₹3 lakh per quadrate yard.
Expressing interest implicit the connection to widen the road to 200 feet, the JAC said the existing roadworthy width varies betwixt 50 feet and 60 feet astatine antithetic stretches and contended that specified ample enlargement from Gymkhana Grounds onwards was unnecessary. It pointed to stretches specified arsenic Road No. 36 successful Jubilee Hills and Road No. 1 successful Banjara Hills, which, contempt being narrower, were efficaciously managing traffic.
