GHMC special drive to protect Trust, Govt lands

Hyderabad, June 27 (INN): GHMC Commissioner Somesh Kumar said that a special drive with a 10-point formula has been taken up with multi disciplined team with the departments of Police, HMWS&SB, Electricity Department, Collector, Ranga Reddy and other various Heads of Government Departments with a speedy schedule to protect all the trust and Government lands.

The Commissioner said that the GHMC's special drive was aimed at protecting Government lands and to stop all unauthorized constructions with integrated approach.

The 10-point formula of the special drive taken up in Gurukul Trust lands include Public announcement through mike; Caution boards at every entry point; Marking 'illegal' on every house; Electricity cut in area where demolition is taking place; Reminder letter to TGSPDCL to not to household connections; Letter to HMWS&SB not to give water connections; Letter to TGSPDCL to implement Government Order for levying 3 times of charges; FTL marking of Tammidi Kunta; Demolition of left over ongoing construction and seizure of buildings.

Somesh Kumar along with all the senior heads of the departments has inspected some of the areas at Gurukul Trust at West Zone.

The Commissioner said that the identified buildings have already been demolished, some more buildings have been identified and they will be demolished immediately following all the prescribed procedures.

He further informed that most of the people does not know the procedures while purchasing the land, plot, construction building, already constructed buildings whether they have been constructed authorizedly / un authorizedly.

In this connection the GHMC is planning to have a large scale awareness campaign to the people to know the do's and dont's while purchasing the same.

The Commissioner said that in the awareness campaign the people will be informed about the various procedures to be adopted while purchasing or selling the buildings.

The GHMC will be giving specific instructions to the people if anybody purchase or sale the unauthorized buildings they will be facing serious action from the Government.

Keeping in view of the seriousness the people must follow the prescribed rules strictly even GHMC can book criminal cases against the people and they will also to taken in to the custody for 3 years so.

Somesh Kumar further stated that the teams of senior officials have decided to display the sign boards saying that the constructions taken up in Gurukul Trust land without valid permission will be demolished as per the GHMC Act at every entry point of the roads.

Every unauthorized building identified will be marked with red colour as 'illegal' to identify those structures as illegal for not to purchase the unauthorized building. GHMC has sent reminder letters to TGSPDCL and HMWS&SB to disconnect the connections of the people whose buildings are unauthorized have already taken electricity and water connections without occupancy certificate.

Cyberabad Police Commissioner CV Anand said that entire team of senior Government officials were keen in taking up this special drive to stop the unauthorized constructions.

He said that the Cyberabad Police has drafted more than 200 police personnel have been deputed for the purpose and all the departments are coordinating among themselves to complete the drive in a war footing basis. TGSPDCL Managing Director SAM Rizvi, HMWS&SB MD M. Jagadeeshwar and other senior officials from various Government departments have participated in the inspection.