HYDERABAD: The HYDRAA on Tuesday carried out enforcement operations at four locations across the city, reclaiming and fencing government land worth an estimated Rs 1,511 crore.
HYDRAA reclaimed over 1,100 square yards of park land at two locations and safeguarded Full Tank Level areas of lakes spread across more than 11 acres at two other sites.
In Kondapur, land worth nearly Rs 700 crore was protected after HYDRAA confirmed that encroachers had filled up the four-acre Jangamkunta and were preparing to sell it as demarcated plots. Revenue authorities registered cases, and fencing was installed as per the directions of HYDRAA Commissioner AV Ranganath.
At Alwal Kotha Cheruvu, HYDRAA removed encroachments over eight acres following complaints of pollution caused by plastic waste units operating within the lake’s FTL area. Unauthorised sheds and structures were dismantled.
HYDRAA also restored a 650-square-yard park in Vanasthalipuram, Sahebnagar Kalan, and a 450-square-yard park in Radhakrishna Housing Colony, Malkajgiri, removing illegal structures and fencing the land.
HYDRAA to fence over 300 vulnerable lakes
Hyderabad: The Hyderabad Disaster Response and Asset Protection Agency (HYDRAA) has shifted focus to protecting lakes and kuntas that are not reflected in revenue records, HYDRAA Commissioner AV Ranganath said. He said many small water bodies, measuring four to five acres, are being filled with construction and demolition waste and encroached upon.
Though not shown as lakes in village or revenue records, these water bodies appear in Survey of India maps, making them highly vulnerable to land grabbing. “We have identified over 300 such small kuntas and will begin fencing them,” Ranganath said, adding that fencing at Jangam Kunta in the Gachibowli–Kondapur area on Tuesday was part of this initiative.
He said HYDRAA would also notify these water bodies in the public domain, with its GIS team working along with the National Remote Sensing Centre on mapping and documentation.