Hyderabad Developed at the Cost of Other Cities in AP, Truth Laid Bare

The main contention of the Seemandhra people to the creation of Telangana is the status of Hyderabad. They are willing to set the region free if Hyderabad is either made the Joint Capital or a Union Territory. It is like asking a mother to go free, if she leaves her nubile and beautiful daughter in the captors clutches. The argument put forth by these people is that Hyderabad was developed at the expense of other cities. What blasphemy, Hyderabad was made the capital of Andhra Pradesh because it was the most developed city in the region, it was next only to Delhi in terms of infrastructure and beauty, infact Dr.Ambedkar was so impressed by the city that he proposed it’s being made the Nation’s capital.

Hyderabad was the most developed and progressive state in the entire country when it was annexed with the Andhra region. It was an ideal city with educational institutions, industries, water bodies, sewage system, roads network and power supply. Hyderabad the city of lakes and plenty has in the last 50 years been turned into a nightmare, where the citizens thirst for water in summer and in the rainy season are forced out of their homes by flood waters. There has been no real development in the city for the last 50 years, neither has the water supply been augmented nor the sewage and water works network revamped.

Infact the opposite has occurred successive Seemandhra led Governments have officially usurped public lands by first filling up lakes and then building colonies, which were sold to the settlers from Andhra and Rayalseema. Dilsukhnagar, Saroornagar, Lower tankbund, Masabtank, Nallakunta are a few of the colonies that have been built over filled up lakes. This has both depleted the water supply to the city and choked up the city’s lungs so that today Hyderabad sweats 10 months in a year.

Hyderabad must be the only city in the world which suffers from floods caused by the overflow of sewage and rainwater. The water and sewage system built by the Nizams in the 1940’s and 1950’s serves the city’s needs to this day. The only visible change is the burst out of concrete sores that these settlers have built across the city. Till yesterday, they were busy plundering and spoiling the City from within, today they have spread their tentacles to the adjoining areas. The Natural heritage of the city, the pre historic rock formations surrounding Hyderabad are being dynamited away to provide fodder to these settlers granite mills, landscapes which could in the future be a revenue earner for the state aka Yellow Stone Natural Park of USA is today being sold off as prime real estate.

Hyderabad, the city of romance is today the bone of contention between its children who would nurture the city with the love it deserves and the Seemandhra settlers, the self appointed pimps who are bent on scraping away the last fig leaf. If only cities could speak, Hyderabad would kick its exploiters back to their Kurnools and Vishakapatnams.


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