Unhappy with the way the leaders and authorities are dealing with the issue of Osman Nagar – the area under deluge since one and half years, the members of the flood-affected area led by Congress leaders took out ‘arthi juloos’ of Chief Minister K.Chandrasekhar Rao today and burn CM’s effigy.
\Lashing out at leaders playing the role of mute spectators over the issue, the congress leader Uzma Shaker said, “Instead of taking an axe to hurt the already purebred victims, the leaders and the authorities should act tough against the leaders who prepared layouts and sell the land to the gullible people of Osman Nagar. If the houses are come under FTL and Buffer Zones, how the electric poles have come up there and how the electricity and water connections were provided,”
Questioning the funds to the tune of Rs.24 crores being announced for the development of Osman Nagar, she said, “The RTI response clearly says neither the G.O. has been issued nor the tenders were called to carry out repair works of the Lake bund making the case a mere eyewash while people are still living through misery. The lake has an inlet through which the water is gushing in but has no outlet to pass through the channel. Much to the chagrin of the people, the sewerage water is also marking into the water body,” she rued.
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Blaming the leaders for playing on the sentiments of the people, she said, the leaders are just hoodwinking the people to remain in power sans any seriousness towards their problems.
It is pertinent to mention here that, while hearing the plea filed by Mudiraj Sangam represented by its President Kaalva Ganesh, the high court has recently directed the state government, Revenue authorities and officials of Jalpally and Badangpet municipalities to demolish illegal structures that comes under the Full Tank Level (FTL) and buffer zone of the Burhankhan Lake also known as Osman Nagar Lake.
“Spreads over an area of 78.231 acres and encompassing through several areas before taking a complete circle of 3107.150 meters covering two municipalities, the Burhankhan Lake symbiotically shares boundaries with Osman Nagar area on one side under Jalpally Municipality and Venkatapur on the other under Badangpet Municipality.
The people close to water body met the doom following incessant rains in 2020 that cause breaches to bunds of several water bodies on the upward direction and the flood water swarms into Osman Nagar Lake and adjoining colonies forcing the terrified people to run for shelter surrendering their houses to the repulsive flood. Since then, the situation remains unchanged though half of the volume of neck deep water was drained out from the area by the municipality officials.
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According to sources, the officials of Irrigation, Revenue and Municipality of Badangpet and Jalpally will jointly exercise to remove encroachments. They are going into huddle to discuss the court order before taking a call to pull down the structures that were come up under FTL.
