The Telangana government has announced its initiative to provide double-bed houses to underprivileged families residing alongside the Musi River in a significant move towards social welfare and urban development.
The decision was made after MLAs from the city asked the state government to address the problems of people living along the river bank, particularly regarding the flooding during the monsoon season.
The individuals, who lived in adverse conditions, are expected to be moved to areas equipped with essential amenities. This will also clear the river of encroachments.
In addition, Approximately 10,000 double-bed houses will be earmarked for this purpose.
MLAs gathered on Thursday for a meeting between Municipal Administration and Urban Development Minister KT Rama Rao and MLAs. At the meeting, different aspects of the city's growth were discussed.
MLAs from Hyderabad placed a unanimous request before the state government to address existing problems and irregularities along the Musi River, with a primary focus on freeing Musi of unauthorized settlements and allotment of state-built homes to the deserving population.
The proposed removal of obstacles from the Musi River is a strategic initiative, which sets the ground for the upcoming Musi Project. The project is currently in its preliminary planning stages.
The minister applauded the MLAs for coming up with the proposal, which aligns with the state government's vision to prevent floods in Hyderabad. He added that the state will shift the poor people residing along the river to a safer place and allot them double-bedroom houses.
This will give the poor who are forced to live near the river because of poverty significant relief to those who are forced to live near the river. This addresses the existing blockages, in the form of unauthorized constructions, in taking up plans to prevent flooding of the Musi River and other plans. The risk of floods will also decrease in areas along the river. This paves the way for works related to the Musi project, the minister said.
KTR also said that works related to SNDP phase II will be sanctioned soon.
The distribution of double-bedroom houses will begin in the upcoming week, and the programme will be conducted at places where the houses are located. They have reported that people are content with the widespread development in Hyderabad in the past ten years, he said.
The BJP spokesman Racahna Reddy has slammed the ruling party, saying: KTR has today announced that he is going to build a 2 BHK houses to remove people who are allegedly living near Musi unauthorised and who are underprivileged and poor people, I wonder why KTR is thinking about the people especially people living in dangerous conditions now, after nine years of terrible floods of absolute abysmal urban infrastructure in Hyderabad where roads are completely damaged in some part of the city and greater Hyderabad and in an around Musi. There is absolutely no plan, no manner in which the government had followed. Congress working president Mahesh Goud said the move came just to woo the voters of the state which is going for assembly polls this year.
As this is an election year, they are giving false promises. A total of two bedrooms in Telangana is a total failure. They have received lakhs of applications and are not in a position to release a thousand houses, they haven't given 10 per cent of the total applicants. It will take 25 to 30 years to keep up the promises, keeping the budget in view, so this is again a false promise to the common man just to attract the votes, the resolution said.