No tribunal to handle town planning cases

Hyderabad: In 2012, the GHMC had written to the municipal administration and urban development department to initiate the process to set up a separate tribunal for the town planning wing. Officials had said the request would be forwarded to the legal wing of the general administration.

However, two years later, no tribunal has been formed yet.

The special tribunal was envisaged to deal with thousands of cases pending with the town planning wing after it was discovered that builders were going ahead with unauthorised constructions. There are more than 6,000 cases pertaining to illegal constructions.