Hydraa Enhances City Traffic Infrastructure and Promotes Lake Rejuvenation

Hyderabad: After demolishing several illegal structures, HYDRAA is working on traffic management, protection of trees and rejuvenation of lakes and water bodies.

Speaking to Deccan Chronicle, HYDRAA officials said that the agency was currently working towards developing the city’s traffic infrastructure, with a key focus on management.

Officials said they had trained a batch of HYDRAA traffic volunteers and deployed them to assist the traffic police to clear the flow of vehicles.

HYDRAA has organised several meetings with additional commissioner of police (traffic) P. Viswa Prasad for the purpose. The departments are jointly working on identifying key traffic chokehold locations.

Asked about demolition of illegal structures, the official said that demolition was the last step in the encroachment cycle, and investigation takes place before demolishing a structure. The official said that the agency was investigating encroachment of waterbodies and government property and identifying illegal structures. Those found in violation of the laws would be demolished.

Meanwhile, environmentalist and Osmania University’s former head of political science department Prof. K. Purushottam Reddy held a meeting with HYDRAA commissioner A.V. Ranganath and appreciated the efforts of the agency. He was participating in an awareness programme conducted by Ranganath on conservation and rehabilitation of chain-link ponds and canals.

Prof. Purushottam Reddy said that after the inception of HYDRAA, even common people had gained knowledge about full tank level, buffer zone and catchment areas, and were asking questions about whether a property was encroaching on government or lake land.