The Telangana High Court on Thursday directed the Lake Protection Committee (LPC) of Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) to furnish details of the buffer zone and Full Tank Level (FTL) of all water bodies in the limits of HMDA to it by August 11.
A bench of Chief Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice T. Vinod Kumar, expressing dissatisfaction over the LPC’s lack of data and not notifying buffer zones of water bodies, cautioned the LPC that officers concerned would have to appear before the court personally if the details were not filed by August 11. Stating that LPC cannot run away from its responsibility of protecting water bodies, the CJ told government counsel not to take the matter lightly.
“This cannot be tolerated…it is for our future generations..,” the CJ observed. The bench was hearing a PIL petition filed by Human Rights and Consumer Protection Cell over alleged unauthorised construction of a building by National Institute of Tourism and Hospitality Management in buffer zone of Ramammakunta lake in Gachibowli of Hyderabad.
