Will Not Spare Encroachments On Water Bodies: Telangana CM

Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Wednesday asked encroachers on water bodies to leave voluntarily and warned that the government would not spare unauthorised constructions.

Speaking at the passing out parade at Telangana Police Academy, Revanth Reddy blamed encroachments on lakes, ponds, tanks and drains for the floods and said this was causing huge damage to the poor. The Chief Minister said that the government is determined to remove every encroachment, no matter how powerful the encroachers may be. He asked the encroachers to honourably exit by removing the encroachments on their own, otherwise, the government would demolish the unauthorised constructions.

He mentioned that the Hyderabad Disaster Response and Assets Monitoring and Protection Authority (HYDRAA) was created to reclaim the encroached land of water bodies.