Colony welfare associations gobbling up open spaces and parks in layouts across Hyderabad

People submitting their grievances astatine Prajavani held by Hyderabad Disaster Response & Asset Protection Agency (HYDRAA) | Photo Credit: Handle @Comm_HYDRAA connected X

Colony payment associations are turning retired to beryllium the large encroachers of sites earmarked for parks and unfastened spaces successful the layouts crossed Hyderabad.

Several of the 61 complaints which were received by the Hyderabad Disaster Response & Asset Protection Agency (HYDRAA) during its grievance redressal programme, Prajavani, pertained to specified encroachments and amerciable merchantability of sites meant arsenic unfastened spaces.

A ailment mentioned encroachment of 1,800 quadrate gait crippled successful Sailakshmi Layout connected the survey numbers 181 and 183 successful the purview of Nizampet Municipal Corporation. The aforesaid ailment mentioned disappearance of parks and roads to the grade of 5 acres successful survey numbers 153 and 154, and encroachment of 23 acre VNR Park site.

Plot owners from Diamond Hills Colony successful Hydernagar of Kukatpally complained astir erasure of 9 acre layout with 70 residential plots. Though the High Court had ruled successful the owners’ favour, the encroachers person not been evicted truthful far.

Local residents of Devarayamjal colony came with a ailment that a compound partition was built blocking the 40 feet roadworthy betwixt the nationalist road and ORR, which obstructed their passage.

One much lawsuit of encroachment was from Tirumala Housing Colony successful Anmagal of Hayatnagar, wherever the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation’s (GHMC) parkland tract of 2,955 quadrate yards was occupied by a fewer radical who thwarted the attempts by the corp to make the park. The encroachers person not vacated the tract contempt High Court’s ruling, they complained.

A ailment was lodged astir operation being taken up successful the afloat vessel level of Turka Cheruvu successful Bachupally mandal of Medchal-Malkajgiri district, and besides connected authorities lands.

Published - May 14, 2025 12:18 p.m. IST