all eviction notices to be issued by HYDRAA within ORR limits Give more power to HYDRAA: CS

Hyderabad Disaster Response and Assets Monitoring and Protection Agency (HYDRAA) must be given more power and personnel in regard to issuing notices under the Outer Ring Road (ORR), said Santhi Kumari, Chief Secretary of Telangana on Thursday.
 The Chief Secretary held a high-level meeting to formulate a comprehensive action plan on the orders issued by the State High Court during the last few days on the removal of encroachments on ponds and preservation of government property.
 “Guidelines are being readied to fully hand over the responsibilities of the protection of all the lakes, parks, canals and all government places under the ORR to HYDRAA.”
 The meeting discussed the measures to hand over more powers and personnel to HYDRAA for the protection of government sites, lakes and government property.
 CS Santhi Kumari said that at present the Irrigation Department, GHMC,  Panchayat Raj and other departments are issuing different notices regarding the removal of encroachments on ponds, lakes, parks and government places, and this is causing some kind of confusion.
 To avoid this, the Principal Secretary of the Municipal Administration Department Dana Kishore has been directed to finalise procedures for all eviction notices to be issued by HYDRAA within ORR limits. All notices and evictions issued by GHMC, Land Encroachment Act, Land Grabbing Act, Irrigation Department Acts will be completely brought under the jurisdiction of HYDRAA.  
 Officers and staff needed by HYDRAA will be allotted soon, she said.
  FTL, nala encroachment, government vacant plots and conservation of parks will also be brought under the purview of HYDRAA along with conservation of Gandipet and Himayat Sagar lakes.  The Chief Secretary said that 72 teams have been formed under HYDRAA and officers and staff from Police, Survey and Irrigation Departments will be assigned quickly to strengthen them.  DG Intelligence Shivdhar Reddy, Additional DG Law and Order Mahesh Bhagwat, Principal Secretary Municipal Administration Department Dana Kishore, Secretary Irrigation Department Rahul Bojja, HMDA Commissioner Sarfaraz Ahmed, Additional Advocate General Rajinikanth Reddy, ACB Director Tarun Joshi,  Hyderabad Collector Anudeep, Rangareddy Collector Shashanka, Medchal Malkajgiri Collector Gowtham Potru and Sangareddy Collector Valluru Kranti participated in this meeting.