Hyderabad : Hyderabad Lake for Sale?? : Encroachers filling up the lake, plotting, constructing rooms and selling off at Kamuni Cheruvu Moosapet -Kukatpally.
When the issue of Encroachment came to the notice of Minister KTR , He instructed Zonal commisioner kukatpally to act immediately, file cases against the culprits and ensure all encroachments are removed
GHMC officials said at least once acre of lake land had been encroached and a complaint filed to stop encroachments. GHMC (lakes division) assistant executive engineer A Lakshminarayana said they filed a complaint with Kukatpally police on November 7. “An FIR was registered and police arrested a truck driver for dumping debris,” he said.
He further said, “Overnight, they (encroachers) built small rooms. We are removing them and fencing the lake. A religious structure came up last night iy. Fence pushed further into lake instead of reclaiming the lost lake. Encroachers are using religion Some of the encroachers of Raghavendranagar are claiming that the then collector in 1992 had issued them land pattas close to the lake. At least one acre of the lake land has been encroached.”
The encroachers and realty mafia have turned the lake into an illegal real estate venture,” Krishna Kiran Mandapaka, a local resident, said
