Information from an RTI application may scupper plans of many upcoming housing projects around the Golconda Fort.
The information furnished by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) shows that the moat around the fort is also a protected structure. This runs contrary to the topography maps hosted on the National Remote Sensing Centre’s Bhuvan application.
The protected monuments of ASI have three-tiered protection with areas marked as protected, where no development is allowed, prohibited area, and regulated boundary, where the National Monuments Authority gives permission based on the nature of development. With the moat classified as protected, the boundary expands by 101 metres limiting construction activity.
