A employee demolishing a home alongside Musi river at Shankarnagar, Hyderabad.
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The destiny of patta holders within the Musi river mattress stays ambiguous within the context of State authorities’s assertion that legal guidelines pertaining to land acquisition could be utilized to the residents to be displaced by the Musi Riverfront Improvement venture.
The State authorities had assured the Centre that the principles of the ‘Telangana State Proper to Honest Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Guidelines 2014’ can be adopted for resettlement of the affected households and land acquisition.
Minister for Housing and City Affairs, Tokhan Sahu, throughout his reply to a query by MP Ok.R. Suresh Reddy, replied that the Telangana State authorities had knowledgeable that the venture ensured no widespread demolition or homelessness and features a well-planned rehabilitation and resettlement course of for affected households, following due procedures.
Additional, the State has earmarked and allotted 15,000 homes to the households residing in dwelling models of river mattress and buffer zone of Musi river on humanitarian grounds, the reply acknowledged. A Consultative Livelihood Help Committee has been constituted by the State authorities for making certain easy transition of affected households, it mentioned citing the State authorities.
A complete 2,166 households have been enumerated by the Income division within the Musi river mattress, all of which have been marked with the signal ‘RB-X’ giving rise to protests by the dwellers in addition to the opposition events, Bharat Rashtra Samithi, and Bharatiya Janata Celebration.
As well as, a complete 7,850 buildings have been enumerated within the buffer zone demarcated to the extent of fifty metres on both facet of the river.
Throughout its preliminary announcement, the State authorities had promised double bed room housing models to all of the displaced, whereas these within the buffer with correct paperwork could be paid compensation for the land and construction as per the land acquisition guidelines.
Nonetheless, the hitch comes with the patta lands contained in the river mattress — a novel characteristic within the Telangana, whereby cultivation and grazing pattas got by the Asaf Jahi rulers to some communities for rising grass and greens throughout the dry season.
Whereas the dwellers within the river mattress can not declare any compensation for the buildings as they’re unlawful in accordance with the Hyderabad Irrigation Act 1357 Fasli (adopted in 1948), there are numerous dwellers, who had legally bought plots from the unique homeowners, and constructed properties.
“About 60-70% of the homeowners within the river mattress have legitimate registration paperwork and constructing permissions too. However cost of compensation to them stays ambiguous,” mentioned Syed Bilal, an activist.
The Musi growth plan features a proposal to deliver down water from Mallannasagar reservoir to fill within the twin reservoirs, and launch into the Musi, in order that the river flows perennially. This may also condemn the lands without end to water.
The federal government’s place about cost of compensation to the homeowners of those lands has not been spelt out but. Queries about the identical to Principal Secretary, Municipal Administration & City Improvement, M.Dana Kishore remained unanswered.
Printed – November 29, 2024 12:39 am IST
