KBR Park Road Widening Affected Owners Forum protest land acquisition for Hyderabad-CITI undertaking

Owners of properties on Road No.92, Jubilee Hills have questioned the urgency with which the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has begun the property acquisition course of for H-CITI undertaking with out following due procedures and evading the High Court’s directives about honest course of. They additionally introduced forth a proposal to make your entire 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 fashioned a coalition titled ‘KBR Park Road Widening Affected Owners Forum’. Addressing a media convention on Saturday (November 1, 2025), they decried the coercive strategies employed by GHMC officers to safe their lands.

Explaining the chronology of occasions, president of the Forum, V.V.Shastri, mentioned the GHMC had initially tried to amass the properties below Section 146 of the GHMC Act, 1955, in June-July, 2024. The part obligates GHMC to hunt the consent of the property house owners via 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 High Court 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 had been filed, the Special Officer, Land Acquisition referred to as for a public listening to the place the property house owners questioned the justification for the undertaking with no avail.

“We weren’t proven any plans for the undertaking regardless of searching for them. Instead, they simply confirmed us a paper on which two straight strains had 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 wilful harassment by GHMC officers who arrive as soon as in each two or three days searching for one doc or the opposite.

“It’s both title deeds, or constructing permissions or one thing else. They are looking for some loophole in order that they’ll 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 totally grown timber are set to be faraway from the street median to accommodate the flyovers.

Alternatives proposed

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

Another proprietor, Sridhar, prompt that the federal government take over the eco-sensitive zone of the KBR Park which is anyway occupied by eateries and floor/multi stage parking. “Due to acquisition on a single aspect, a couple of plots can be left with very meagre space which is not going to be of any use to the proprietor,” he identified.

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

“The land within the ESZ primarily consists of decorative vegetation, and shrubs. In distinction, the presently proposed widening will destroy your entire street median that has massive timber over 30 years outdated. Their translocation is virtually unimaginable,” Mr. Parvataneni mentioned.