07-14-2006, 02:40 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>State to take over Gurukula lands</b>
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Hyderabad, July 13:<b> The State government will hand over 500 acres of Gurukula Ghatkesar trust lands in Madhapur to the Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Corporation and Hyderabad Urban Development Authority for taking up IT and housing projects. Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy is believed to have directed officials to begin work on the transfer of the lands, which are worth thousands of crores of rupees</b>.
The revenue department has been asked to explore legal means to make the transfer a smooth affair. It has already withdrawn the exemption given to the trust lands from Urban Land Ceiling. Sources said that a high-level meeting held on Thursday decided to take urgent steps to protect the trust lands from encroachments and seek legal opinion on transfer of lands.
The meeting, a follow-up to a recent review meeting on trust lands held by the chief minister, was attended by senior officials including Principal Secretary (Revenue) S.V. Prasad, APIIC Managing Director B.P. Acharya, Outer Ring Road project director Piyush besides Revenue Secretary D.C. Rosaiah. As per records, the land was purchased by Mr Bhagawan Das, who donated it to the trust about three decades ago.
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The government exempted 627 acres from Urban Land Ceiling in 1982 after the trust claimed that the land would be utilised for religious purpose</b>. Subsequently, the trustees sold the land to a housing society and to several individuals.<b> The government has now decided to take control of about 500 acres. The chief minister felt that the government should utilise the land for useful purposes since the trust failed to prevent encroachments.</b>
About 50 pucca structures have come up in 50 acres of the land and in another 90 acres compound walls and basements were built up. âThe existing permanent structures could be regularised and strict measures should be taken to remove the compound walls and to prevent further encroachment,â said an official. The meeting decided to engage the services of private security agencies, if necessary, to guard the land. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Can they take land from Mosque or Madarsa or Church?
www.deccan.com/City/CityN...la%20lands
Hyderabad, July 13:<b> The State government will hand over 500 acres of Gurukula Ghatkesar trust lands in Madhapur to the Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Corporation and Hyderabad Urban Development Authority for taking up IT and housing projects. Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy is believed to have directed officials to begin work on the transfer of the lands, which are worth thousands of crores of rupees</b>.
The revenue department has been asked to explore legal means to make the transfer a smooth affair. It has already withdrawn the exemption given to the trust lands from Urban Land Ceiling. Sources said that a high-level meeting held on Thursday decided to take urgent steps to protect the trust lands from encroachments and seek legal opinion on transfer of lands.
The meeting, a follow-up to a recent review meeting on trust lands held by the chief minister, was attended by senior officials including Principal Secretary (Revenue) S.V. Prasad, APIIC Managing Director B.P. Acharya, Outer Ring Road project director Piyush besides Revenue Secretary D.C. Rosaiah. As per records, the land was purchased by Mr Bhagawan Das, who donated it to the trust about three decades ago.
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The government exempted 627 acres from Urban Land Ceiling in 1982 after the trust claimed that the land would be utilised for religious purpose</b>. Subsequently, the trustees sold the land to a housing society and to several individuals.<b> The government has now decided to take control of about 500 acres. The chief minister felt that the government should utilise the land for useful purposes since the trust failed to prevent encroachments.</b>
About 50 pucca structures have come up in 50 acres of the land and in another 90 acres compound walls and basements were built up. âThe existing permanent structures could be regularised and strict measures should be taken to remove the compound walls and to prevent further encroachment,â said an official. The meeting decided to engage the services of private security agencies, if necessary, to guard the land. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Can they take land from Mosque or Madarsa or Church?