Chief Minister Revanth Reddy is said to be adamant in moving ahead in his Musi beautification plan, besides all-out protests, even from his own party. He again reiterated that the project was being taken up with a novel intention and slammed the opposition parties for instigating people to stall the project.
Admitting that some residents were against the project, the Chief Minister said opposition parties were indulging in “dirty politics by exploiting the sentiments of the poor”. As part of Musi beautification, about one and a half lakh houses are going to be razed to the ground?
This doubt arises if you look at the Google map created by Musi Riverfront Development Corporation Limited (MRDCL). According to this map the structures within the FRL (Full River Level) line look like mushrooms. If the buffer zone is calculated from there according to the rules, the trains are running in the hearts of those who come within it.
With this, they are worried that the beautification project will become a thunderbolt in their lap. According to the map prepared by MRDCL officials in coordination with various departments like Revenue and Irrigation, the outflow from Himayatsagar and the outflow from Usmansagar (Gandipet) come in different flow paths and converge into a single path near the Langar House.
From there, Musi river flows in Nalgonda district and then joins Krishna river. Musi flows for about 11.7 kilometers from Osmansagar to Bapughat near Langarhouse. Similarly, the river flows from Himayatsagar to Bapughat for a distance of about nine kilometers. Then the MRDCL officials made a map of about 45 kms upto Gourelli in the flow path where both meet.
Government is razing the structures in Musi river bed as illegal. It is learned that 150 structures that have been demolished so far do not have much permission. The government then convinced some of them to give them double bedroom houses and demolished the houses.
But thousands of constructions in Hydershakote, Attapur and downstream Nagol neighborhood have permission as per norms. They have been paying property tax, water bill and electricity bill for decades.
Moreover, red marks have also been put on the constructions undertaken decades ago in the HUDA layout in the surrounding area of the Langar House. It means that if the earlier permits are in the riverbed, then the FRL and buffer zone beyond it is not conclusive.
