The story so far
The Telangana State Government has come up with a new Hyderabad Industrial Lands Transformation Policy (HILTP) for strategic conversion of industrial land within and near the Outer Ring Road (ORR) to productive and integrated urban spaces.
The Government has introduced the concept of multi-zone for converting these industrial lands into residential, commercial, institutional and recreational areas in addition to IT/IteS firms. The move however drew flak from the main Opposition Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) which sensed a huge scam in the entire process.
BRS working president K.T. Rama Rao alleged that Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy was trying to give away the lands at throwaway prices to his “near and dear” ones in the name of land transformation policy while the BJP too termed the policy as land looting policy driven by profit motives.
Why the policy is needed?
