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Telangana Govt braces for rain battle
Taking serious note of the flood situation prevailing in several areas in the city under the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) limits, the State government has decided to demolish 28,000 illegal constructions, including government buildings, erected on storm water drains, nalas and tanks.
Hyderabad: Taking serious note of the flood situation prevailing in several areas in the city under the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) limits, the State government has decided to demolish 28,000 illegal constructions, including government buildings, erected on storm water drains, nalas and tanks.
Addressing a press conference here on Saturday after a review meeting, Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao said illegal constructions mushroomed across the drains posing a major threat to local dwellers. This was a problem which the government had inherited and would take some time to take corrective measures, he said.
KCR orders razing of 28,000 illegal structures; puts the blame of present situation on the previous governments
Referring to the heavy water flow and inundation of several colonies, he said the problem arose because the city received 462 mm of rain, which was the highest ever after 1908. In terms of percentage, the city received 448 percent excess rains in September.
To avoid recurrence of such problems in future, the Chief Minister said the only solution was to remove all illegal buildings. For this, he said flying squads would be appointed in each circle of GHMC.
He also announced Rs 10,000 reward to the citizens who furnish information about illegal constructions in their locality.
He said the government would also see that the cases pertaining to illegal structures which are pending before the High Court were also resolved by consulting the Chief Justice and legal luminaries.
The Chief Minister said 400 dilapidated buildings had been already pulled down in the city. The GHMC was asked to identify other such constructions. The 100-year-old Ramgopalpet police station was also included in the list of dilapidated buildings, he added.
Replying to a question, he said not only officials, even if MLAs and MLCs would not be spared if they were found to have colluded with encroachers in constructing illegal buildings.
He said if the previous governments had curbed encroachments of nalas and drains, the kind of submergence that was witnessed in the city would not have taken place.
He said the Opposition parties which were now belittling the tag of Hyderabad being a global city should hang their head in shame because the encroachments took place during their regime.
The Opposition leaders who were criticising the government now should know that all the Ministers and officials had been on the streets till the wee hours and monitoring the relief operations.
It was because of their efforts, there had been no casualty in the city, he said. Chandrashekar Rao reiterated that his government was committed to promote Hyderabad as global city.
He said it would take at least five years as a lot of work needed to be done to rectify the mistakes committed by the previous governments.
To make Hyderabad a truly global city, it would require about Rs 15,000 to Rs 20,000 crore.
