The newly fashioned Hyderabad Catastrophe Response and Asset Monitoring and Safety Company (HYDRA) just lately demolished part of the N-Conference Centre owned by Tollywood actor Nagarjuna. This motion, carried out within the Cyberabad space of Hyderabad, was primarily based on allegations that 1.12 acres of the centre encroached upon the Full Tank Stage (FTL) or buffer zone of the Thammidi Kunta Lake.
What’s HYDRA?
HYDRA, or the Hyderabad Catastrophe Response and Asset Monitoring and Safety Company, is a unified physique created by the Telangana authorities in July to handle catastrophe response and shield public property throughout the Telangana Core City Area (TCUR). The TCUR contains the Higher Hyderabad Municipal Company (GHMC) and extends to all city and rural native our bodies as much as the Outer Ring Highway (ORR).
The prevailing Enforcement Vigilance and Catastrophe Administration Division (EV&DM) has been reorganised to suit into this new framework. Their energy has been upgraded from roughly 800 to 2,200 personnel.
The company is headed by the GHMC’s Commissioner of Enforcement Vigilance & Catastrophe Administration (EV&DM), A.V. Ranganath, and operates underneath the supervision of the Municipal Administration & City Growth (MA&UD) principal secretary, Dana Kishore.
Sections of HYDRA
HYDRA was established underneath the directive of Chief Minister Revanth Reddy, who envisioned the company as a complete answer to the challenges posed by Hyderabad’s fast city enlargement. The company is structured into three primary wings:
- Asset Safety Wing: This can safeguard property comparable to parks, open areas, playgrounds, lakes, and land parcels from encroachments. It’ll additionally examine non-public premises for compliance with constructing and city planning laws and take penal motion in opposition to unlawful ads.
- Catastrophe Administration Wing: This part will coordinate catastrophe response and reduction work by means of the Catastrophe Response Pressure (DRF). It’ll work carefully with nationwide and state businesses, in addition to technical businesses just like the India Meteorological Division (IMD) and the Nationwide Distant Sensing Company (NRSA).
- Logistics Assist Wing: This can present vital catastrophe response data by means of the Catastrophe Response Info System for the Telangana core city area space.
The Demolition of Nagarjuna’s N-Conference Centre
The current demolition of Nagarjuna’s N-Conference Centre by HYDRA is a part of its broader mandate to guard public property and implement city laws. The company claimed {that a} portion of the conference centre had encroached on the FTL of the Thammidi Kunta Lake, violating environmental and concrete planning norms.
The actor, on Saturday, alleged that no discover was issued to him earlier than the demolition. In a assertion, he wrote, “The land is a Patta land, and never even an inch of tank plan is encroached. Right now clearly, the demolition was carried out wrongfully primarily based on misinformation. No discover was issued previous to finishing up the demolition this morning. As a law-abiding citizen, if the Court docket earlier than which the matter is pending had determined in opposition to me, I might have carried out the demolition myself. I’m putting this on document for the aim of correcting any public misimpression about wrongful constructions or encroachment by us.”
This transfer has put the highlight on the HYDRA and put it underneath scrutiny of the Opposition Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS). The BRS has accused the ruling Congress Chief Minister Revanth Reddy of utilizing HYDRA as a instrument for political vendetta forward of the Meeting elections.