KBR Park Highway Widening Affected Homeowners Discussion board protest land acquisition for Hyderabad-CITI undertaking

Homeowners of properties on Highway No.92, Jubilee Hills have questioned the urgency with which the Higher Hyderabad Municipal Company (GHMC) has begun the property acquisition course of for H-CITI undertaking with out following due procedures and evading the Excessive Courtroom’s directives about truthful course of. In addition they introduced forth a proposal to make the whole stretch round KBR Park a one-way, to resolve the site visitors disaster with out having to lay our a fortune on the flyovers and underpasses as a part of undertaking.

Residents and merchants alongside the route shaped a coalition titled ‘KBR Park Highway Widening Affected Homeowners Discussion board’. Addressing a media convention on Saturday (November 1, 2025), they described the coercive strategies employed by GHMC officers to safe their lands.

Explaining the chronology of occasions, president of the Discussion board, VVShastri, mentioned the GHMC had initially tried to amass the properties below Part 146 of the GHMC Act, 1955, in June-July, 2024. The part obliges GHMC to hunt the consent of the property homeowners by way of a discover.

“The discover, nonetheless, threatened that if we didn’t give consent in seven days, our buildings can be conceived as encroachment and eliminated. We instantly filed a petition in Excessive Courtroom which declared the discover null and void,” Mr. Shastri mentioned.

In August, 2025, one other discover was served citing a gazette notification for land acquisition, with 30 days time for submitting objections. After objections have been filed, the Particular Officer, Land Acquisition referred to as for a public listening to the place the property homeowners questioned the justification for the undertaking with no avail.

“We weren’t proven any plans for the undertaking regardless of looking for them. As an alternative, they simply confirmed us a paper on which two straight strains have been drawn exhibiting the extent of property to be acquired,” Mr. Shastri mentioned, whose 290 sq. yard property is ready to go for the undertaking.

He additionally alleged willful harassment by GHMC officers who arrived as soon as in each two or three days looking for one doc or the opposite.

“It is both title deeds, or constructing permissions or one thing else. They’re looking for some loophole in order that they will demolish the property below the pretext,” he alleged, and questioned if it’s a democratically elected physique in energy or anarchy.

He additionally talked about that round 1000-1200 absolutely grown timber are set to be faraway from the street median to accommodate the flyovers.

Options proposed

“We request the federal government to contemplate our suggestion to make the entire street a method through the morning and night peaks, to deal with the site visitors challenge. Or else, they might discover the odd/ even quantity technique of Delhi authorities. All roads are congested in metropolis. You possibly can’t probably go about demolishing all of the buildings for roads,” he mentioned.

One other proprietor, Sridhar, recommended that the federal government take over the eco-sensitive zone of the KBR Park which is anyway occupied by eateries and floor/multi degree parking. “Because of acquisition on a single facet, just a few plots shall be left with very meager space which is not going to be of any use to the proprietor,” he identified.

Nagendra Parvataneni, one other proprietor, accused the Authorities of focusing on the native residents, after failing to correctly symbolize its case within the Nationwide Inexperienced Tribunal for the undertaking.

“The land within the ESZ primarily consists of decorative vegetation, and shrubs. In distinction, the at present proposed widening will destroy the whole street median that has giant timber over 30 years outdated. Their translocation is virtually inconceivable,” Mr. Parvataneni mentioned.