Save Musi Movement demands release of EIA report on Gandhi Sarovar Project

Save Musi Movement has demanded that the Telangana government release the Environmental Impact Assessment report for the Gandhi Sarovar and Musi Riverfront project. The group has also raised concerns over transparency, environmental impact, funding, and alleged bypassing of statutory assessments

Hyderabad: Save Musi Movement (SMM), an Independent non-party movement, demanded Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy disclose and make access the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report related to the Gandhi Sarovar Project linked with Musi Riverfront Project.

In a press release on Monday, SMM condemned the Chief Minister’s remarks that encroachments near water bodies would be demolished at any cost without hesitation for the Musi project. “Instead of acting as a democratic custodian of people, the Chief Minister has chosen to issue warnings and threats to citizens who are merely defending their lives, livelihoods, and the ecological future of Hyderabad,” it said.

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SMM said that spending hundreds of crores of taxpayer money while keeping the actual blueprints hidden behind the administrative veil of G O No 921, and deliberately bypassing the mandatory Social Impact Assessment (SIA), was a direct assault on public accountability.

It also demanded the release of base-level scientific studies regarding the destruction of the river’s self-purification mechanisms and riparian vegetation, complete reports on the 1,800 million litres of daily untreated sewage entering the river, and independent audits on toxic industrial waste from the Patancheru corridor, and freeze all active funds, including the recently released Rs 375 crore as part of fiscal budget allocation for the Musi Riverfront project.