Hyderabad, November 04: The state government has decided to allot two-and-a-half-acres of land in the city to the Dar-us-Salam Educational Trust.
The land in question is crucial for the trust as it is the main passage to the Owaisi Medical College and Hospital in Santoshnagar. Though the trust has been using the land for the past two decades, the ownership has been with the Defence Research Institute Midhani on paper.
“The research in-stitute will be given equivalent land,” said a government source, adding that st-ate agencies like the Hyder-abad Metropolitan Develop-ment Authority owned land adjacent to the plot that will be allotted to Midhani.
The Dar-us-Salam Educat-ional Trust was founded by Majlis Ittehadul Muslim-een supremo Sultan Salah-uddin Owaisi and presently his son and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi is its chairman.
“We had been re-questing successive gover-nments to allot the land to our trust as it is the only passage available to the college and hospital. The trust had been engaged in correspondence with state and Central authorities for ma-ny years,” Mr Owaisi said.
Sources said that the government has decided to give the land free of cost since the trust has been running many educational institutions including the Deccan College of Medical Sciences, Deccan College of Engineering, Owaisi Hos-pital and Research Centre besides the Princess Esra Hospital.
—Courtesy DC