BRS leaders question legality of Hyderabad Industrial Land Transfer policy

BRS leaders accused the Congress government of using the new Hyderabad Industrial Land Transfer Policy to sell nearly 10,000 acres of government land at low prices. They said the policy violates legal norms and benefits private players through hidden deals while damaging industry and agriculture

Hyderabad: Senior BRS leaders, including Legislative Council Deputy Chairman Banda Prakash, MLC Takkallapalli Ravinder Rao, and former MP Badugula Lingaiah Yadav, on Tuesday questioned as to what extent the Congress government’s newly introduced Hyderabad Industrial Land Transfer Policy (HILTP) is justified legally.

Addressing a news conference, they termed it a “brazen land grab” aimed at selling nearly 10,000 acres of prime government land at throwaway prices.

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The policy, brought through a GO, is designed purely to “fill party and personal coffers” within just 45 days by alienating valuable government land to select private players. While Industries Minister D Sridhar Babu claims the policy does not apply to leased lands, the GO explicitly mentions over 9,000 acres, exposing the government’s “deception”.

Unlike the previous BRS regime, which introduced the transparent TS-iPASS system and granted industrial approvals in 15 days, the Congress government has brought HILTP only for “land mafia and real-estate brokerage”, they alleged.

Public consultation, environmental impact assessment, and social impact studies are mandatory even when selling industrial land, but the Revanth Reddy government has bypassed all norms. Behind the HILTP lie “secret deals worth thousands of crores”, the leaders alleged.

During K Chandrashekhar Rao’s 10-year rule, 18 lakh private sector jobs were created through new industries under TS-iPASS, whereas the present government is destroying both agriculture and industry, they said.