Civic Officials Ignored to Nalla Cheruvu Encroachments

Hyderabad: The 16 commercial establishments at Nalla Cheruvu in Kukatpally spread over four acres and the 27 under-construction, independent houses/villas on one-acre government land in Ameenpur, demolished on Sunday, did not have valid building permission, trade licence or any document supporting that the structures were in accordance with the law.

Verification has revealed that the officials of line departments, including the ones belonging to GHMC, revenue and irrigation department, ignored the structures when they were being built. At both these places, the illegal structures have surfaced over the last two years.

For instance, when Nalla Cheruvu was being encroached on, Mohd Rashed, the earlier GHMC assistant city planner (ACP) of Moosapet Circle, and incumbent Malleshwar ignored the encroachments.

In encroachments at Ameenpur, where 27 villas/ houses were demolished in Patelguda and Kistareddypet, officials of these three departments remained silent spectators for around two years when one acre of government land was being encroached.

According to P. Radha, tahsildar of Ameenpur, notices were issued to the land owners.

Officials of the Ameenpur municipality said that the villages where the demolition happened —Kistareddypet and Patelguda — were recently merged into the urban local body (ULB).

The officials of the Ameenpur municipality also said that A. Jyothi Reddy, commissioner of ULB, was not available for a coment and could not be held responsible for the villas.

“During the BRS regime, the municipal chairman of Ameenpur Tummala Panduranga Reddy managed to stop the demolitions but his attempt to stop it again recently failed due to HYDRAA,” said an official from the Sangareddy district collectorate.