Hyderabad: The increasing number of illegal structures and the state government’s move to regularise them affects the city’s drainage, parking, traffic and fire to ventilation, water supply and additional power.
Experts say that regularising illegal and deviated buildings will only choke the city and develop a congested environment. In the south and central zones, there are many four-five storied buildings on just 100 sq. yard land and 99 per cent of the penthouses are not approved.
There is already no sewerage system in place in the 12 merged municipalities and the depleting ground water level is compounding problem for the city. The commissioning of the Godavari scheme will be sufficient for the present demand. Over 500 new colonies have developed without infrastructure and the corporation is not yet able to manage the garbage that is being generated.
The streets of Hyderabad are overcrowded. Any doubling or quadrupling of floor index space thanks to the Building Regularis-ation Scheme and Layout Regularisation Scheme will only congest the city to the levels not seen so far.
Professor M. Srinivas Chary, director of Urban Governance and Infrastructure, said, “Since already the violated areas has been occupied, the government should now invest in infrastructure. GHMC should use the revenue in improving infrastructure. However, once it is regularised, this should not recur. Instead the government should increase the cost of regularising to much more than the cost of construction of the building, this would to an extend stop people.”
Another urban city planner added, “Firstly this is a political exercise and not a technical one. The regularisation has become a regular event by all government.”
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