Hyderabad: After completing regularisation of buildings and lands, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has decided to regularise the city’s slums.
The exercise will displace more than 20 per cent the population living in about 1,600 notified slums by earmarking plinth area of each house and restrict them to limited numbers. Sources claimed even the one lakh 2BHK houses cannot accommodate all families living in slums, and the Corporation is not in a mood accommodate them in other rehabilitation centres.
According to GHMC officials, in recent review meeting IT and municipal administration minister K.T. Rama Rao discussed with town planning officials ways to regularise city slums where most of the houses were constructed in the very un-organised way. Officials claimed that most of the property owners in the slums had built G+3 floors on 50 sq yd land.
In order to check such irregularities, the corporation will regularise the slums.
A senior GHMC official said on condition of anonymity that the corporation will conduct a comprehensive survey to regularise slums. He said after the survey, the civic body will chalk out guidelines for future constructions.
