Hussein Sagar, a picturesque water body in Twin Cities of Hyderabad & Secunderabad, was originally constructed in a natural depression at about 513 m above MSL, in the year 1561. It was a fresh water lake and used as drinking water source for Hyderabad from 1860s to 1930s.
As the City of Hyderabad developed and the population got multiplied putting heavy pressure on urban land, the water spread area has shrunk drastically making way for various so called development activities around it. In the process of urbanisation and heavy industrialisation, the lake also got heavily polluted by untreated / under-treated Domestic Sewage and Industrial Effluents discharged in the catchment of the inlet channels. But it has continued to be an Ecological and Heritage Asset of the City.
But unfortunately, with or without the connivance of the concerned Govt Agencies the masquerading of real estate business, in and around Hussein Sagar, still goes on, in spite of the Court Orders, Master Plan, Water, Land and Trees Act, 2002 and many other Regulations. The reason is simple. Urban Land has become a profitable Commodity. The prime land right in the heart of the city has become an Attractive, Low Risk and High Profit Real Estate Business with quick money, and Hussein Sagar is no body’s baby.
. The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) and other concerned agencies had undertaken to discharge highly Polluted Waters of Hussain Sagar down stream into Musi River, by fully opening the Sluices and breaking Surplus Weirs from mid April, in the name of carrying out their repairs. This is nothing but clever camouflage of clandestine implementation of the publicly announced intention of Chief Minister of Telangana for de-watering and de-silting of Hussain Sagar in the name of cleansing it.
NGT SZ, in its order 1 st May, having some reasonable doubt about the conduct of the Respondents, as to whether they have conducted any detailed scientific study about the scheme of De-watering, prevented them from further de-watering of Hussain Sagar & transferring to any other water bodies pending further orders of the Tribunal.
But the concerned State Agencies, continued to discharge polluted waters from Hussain Sagar down stream into Musi River, in utter contempt to NGT Directive and in utter disregard to the provisions of Section 24 of Water Act,
1974. In addition they approached Hyderabad High Court on 7 th May, in violation of Section 22 of NGT Act 2010, and obtained stay order against NGT Directive, even before the Petitioner before NGT was informed.
All these are speaking facts of the malformed intentions behind the riminal Act of the State Administration to De-water Hussain Sagar, before onset of monsoon, which harms Environment and Quality of Life of People in Twin Cities and down stream of Musi River, apart from losing the Ecological and Heritage Asset.
Please Stop immediately the Criminal Act
of draining out of Hussain Sagar Waters
in the name of Repairs or Otherwise