Curation Team
HYDERABAD: The Congress govt is actively identifying litigation-free land in Greater Hyderabad and other major towns across Telangana to roll out its ambitious Indiramma housing scheme, which will feature G+3 apartment buildings to address urban housing shortages.
The move comes amid a growing demand from economically weaker sections for housing within city limits, rather than on the outskirts. Based on previous experience-where low-income families refused to relocate to remote housing colonies-the govt has decided to construct apartment blocks at existing slum locations where people have lived for decades.
The housing department has so far identified 16 slums in Hyderabad for potential development. However, only a few, such as Saraladevi Nagar near IS Sadan and an area near Dilsukhnagar, have clear, dispute-free land. The rest are entangled in local disputes, court cases, or land ownership issues, officials said.
“We want to ensure that housing is created where people already live and work,” said housing minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy. “Because of the limited availability of land in cities, we have chosen the G+3 model to maximise space while ensuring urban poor families don’t have to move away from their livelihoods,” he claimed.
To support this, officials from housing, revenue, municipal bodies, and district collectorates have been directed to identify at least 600 square yards of vacant, litigation-free land in each location. Such plots would be sufficient to build 16 housing units per block under the G+3 design, officials said.
The govt has already sanctioned 3,500 housing units for each of the 119 assembly constituencies, and lakhs of applications have been filed from urban areas like Hyderabad, Rangareddy, and Medchal Malkajgiri.
