Hyderabad: The House Committee headed by Aroori Ramesh probing irregularities in the cooperative housing societies in the state, which were allotted government lands, pulled up officials for their failure to submit original layouts and other documents of Filmnagar and Jubilee Hills Cooperative Housing Societies on Thursday.
Upset committee members asked officials to submit the documents by July 1 so as to undertake field visits to both societies for first hand information on the ground realities and irregularities found in earlier official probes.
It also unanimously requested the Speaker to appoint Dr Ms Kiranmayee, Additional Registrar of Cooperative Societies, who had probed Filmnagar and other societies, as adviser to the House Committee to ensure speedy action. She was recently transferred to Warangal.
It is learnt Congress MLC, P. Sudhakar Reddy, TRS MLC, Karne Prabhakar, MLA, Guvvala Balraju, Congress MLA, T. Jeevan Reddy, Telugu Desam MLA, Maganti Gopinath, MIM MLA, Ahmed Bin Abdullah Balala and others who scanned available documents, probe reports, found prima facie grave irregularities in two housing societies located in Hyderabad.
P. Sudhakar Reddy and others also took exception to Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao making light of irregularities in Film Nagar Cooperative Housing Society at a film function and asserted that the House Panel will not allow wrong doers to go scot free.
“If that is the case, let us wind up the House Panel. The House Panel is not an eye wash. We have a responsibility to see that action is taken against those who had committed irregularities, ensure only eligible get plots and plots allotted for specific purposes are not diverted to other purposes like residential to commercial,” P Sudhakar Reddy reportedly
said.
Sudhakar Reddy and others who grilled in-charge Commissioner for Cooperation and Registrar of Cooperative Societies Surender for evasive replies asked him to submit original layouts of both societies before July 1. He also accused the government of victimising an honest lady officer Dr Kiranmayee who had unearthed the scam in Film Nagar and several other societies.
Senior officials Parthasarathy, Meena and Navin Mittal were also present. “Plots have been allotted for housing purposes, but they were illegally converted for commercial purposes. Several people not connected to the film industry got plots which are wrong. Parks, nalas and other open spaces have been encroached. No action was taken on encroachment of nalas in Ashok Nagar,” a panel member said.
