Hyderabad: The government took back 12.22 acres of land worth over Rs 50 crore belonging to TS Housing Board near JNTU campus, Kukatpally, on which illegal layouts had come up. The land had been occupied by Sri Sai Nagar Housing Welfare Society, among others.
The Housing Board had allotted 100 acres in Kukatpally to JNTU-Hyderabad for setting up its campus in 1980 on lease for 30 years at a rent of '99,000 per year.
A recent survey conducted by the Housing Board of land leased out to JNTUH with data from the survey and land records departments revealed that only 88.32 acres was in the possession of the university, and 1.29 acres was used for the widening of National Highway 9.
Another 8.2 acres was found to be in the illegal possession of ‘Sri Sai Nagar Housing Welfare Society’, which had developed an unapproved layout.
Following orders by housing department special chief secretary Chitra Ramachandran, who has started a drive to take back land from encroachers, the Hous-ing Board cancelled the lease given to JNTU for the extent of the land encroached for failure to protect it. It then filed a case before the Special Court under the Land Grabbing (Prohibition) Act, at Hyderabad, against 188 persons who had grabbed the land.
Citizens alerted on Housing Board land
With the instructions given by Ms Ramchandran, Housing Board officials with the help of their counterparts in the revenue and electricity departments, police and the GHMC took possession of vacant plots on Thursday and erected permanent fencing and signboards. The approximate value of plots was estimated at over Rs 50 crore.
Ms Ramchandran issued a notice informing the public that the entire extent of 12.22 acres in Kukatpally on which the unauthorised Sri Sai Nagar Housing Welfare Society layout had come up, was the absolute property of the Housing Board and requested people not to make any transactions.
The GHMC commissioner was also informed about the unauthorised layout.
