Hyderabad 4 June 2021
PUBLIC STATEMENT FROM PRAJA SANKALPAM AND SOCIALIST PARTY (INDIA)
Sub: Lokayukta Complaint No. 403/2020/B1 – Construction of open gym and roads/tracks inside FTL of Chinna Cheruvu Ramanthapur, Lake ID 3802
Ref: GHMC ENCROACHES THE LAKE WITH OPEN GYM, ROAD(CALLS IT TRACKS), AND CALLS IT ‘BEAUTIFICATION’ – ILLEGAL ACTS AGAINST LAW AND CALLS IT ‘DEVELOPMENT FOR PEOPLE’
Today, 4 JUNE 2021, a preliminary reply (find below) was submitted at Lokayukta Hyderabad in response to the GHMC Uppal Circle’s Report. A complete reply will be submitted within a week:
Your Honour,
1- We draw your urgent attention to the matter that the open gym that has been constructed inside the FTL boundary of the lake and is in full use in spite of matter pending at Lokayukta. Please order to evict the gym and proceed against the officials and public representatives who got it constructed and participated in its inauguration.
2- Sewage and polluted waters are entering inside the lake, which has caused the lake to be filled up with weeds. Please order stopping the pollution that is entering the lake both solid and liquid and proceed against the officials responsible for maintainance and pollution of the lake.
3- Roads have been laid inside the FTL boundary of the lake and calling it as walking/cycling track and in the name of ‘lake beautification’ and ‘people health /demand’. Please evict and dredge out all the roads laid inside the FTL boundary of the lake.
4- Lokayukta Investigation officer had visited the lake on 29 july 2020. We have not received copy of the report so far. Please give us a copy of the same.
5- In 2014 on Lokayukta orders joint inspection was held and all the encroachments and illegal constructions were identified which includes the temple constructed right inside the FTL boundary and present Goshala extended to the temple. Please order shifting of temple/goshala outside the FTL boundaries of the lake.
6- Please render justice by restoration of chinna ramanthapur cheruvu in terms of its area, holding capacity, its hydrology, and its water quality. It is quite evident that Officials and elected represetatives of the area are not doing their duties to scientifically, economically , environmentally restore the lake for the people health and recreation, but instead asking people to walk and gym inside FTL of the intensely polluted lake that is very harmful for the people. As per the law the walking track without any concretization can only be laid in the buffer zone of the lake and never in the FTL of the lake that compromises with the holding capacity of the lake and destroys the hydrology of the lake.
Encl: 2 PICTURES WITH NARRATIONS
PICTURE 1- IN APRIL 2021 MAYOR GARU INSPECTS CHINNA CHERUVU RAMANTAPUR. IN THE BACK GROUND THE LAKE SEEN FULL OF WEEDS. EVEN THOUGH WEEDS ARE SO EVIDENT, MAYOR IS YET TO ORDER STOP OF POLLUTION IN LAKE THAT IS CAUSING WEEDS, NOR ORDERED EVICTION OF OPEN GYM AND REMOVING OF ROADS THAT ARE ALL IN THE FTL BOUNDARY OF THE LAKE IN VIOLATION OF LAW
PICTURE 2: ROADS LAID INSIDE THE FTL BOUNDARY IN THE NAME OF ‘BEAUTIFICATION’ AND ‘FOR PEOPLE TO WALK’ – WITHOUT STOPPING POLLUTION OF THE LAKE
We shall fully coordinate with elected and selected in governance of Chinna Cheruvu Ramanthapur, in public interest.
We expect the Uppal Mandal WALTA Meeting to be convened immediately as well as the Ramanthapur Ward Committee meeting to be convened immediately under leadership of our GHMC Mayor garu.
Best,
Shri Bapatla Krishna Mohan, Praja Sankalpam, Hyderabad
Dr Lubna Sarwath, State General Secretary, Socialist Party (India)
