Get approval for your layout  within HMDA limits in just seven days!
The Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) will
re-introduce the Green Channel for builders and land developers. Under
this, builders and developers will have the option to obtain expeditious
approval of development plans.

Under the Green Channel scheme, a
panel of architects and document auditors, who are conversant with town
planning rules, regulations and laws, will be empanelled/licensed to
scrutinise applications. It will enable applicants to obtain fast-track
clearance for their development proposals from HMDA in seven working
days. The concept will be introduced in a phased manner, making it
applicable initially to layout approvals.

A decision to
re-introduce the Green Channel was taken at HMDA’s fifth board meeting
held under the chairmanship of chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy at the
Secretariat on Tuesday. The chief minister wanted HMDA officials to
speed up the arrangements including lake preservation and laying radial
roads.

HMDA also decided to initiate steps towards integrated
online services for according development permissions. The
Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI) will  provide technical
support for operationalising the ICT-enabled development approval
system. The entire organisational work flows including the zones will be
integrated with  effective use of ICT for better delivery of services
to citizens.

The meeting ratified the HMDA Development Plan-2031
notified by the state government in January. Of the total HMDA area of
7,257 sq km, the plan covers 5,985 sq km spread over 35 mandals in four
districts.

The population in HMDA limits is expected to reach 1.84 crore by 2031.

LAND
POOLING: The HMDA mooted Land Pooling Scheme which gives an option to
farmers to become partners in the development process without being
deprived of their land. A committee recommended taking up 
Edulanagulapalle-Kollur and Pratapsingaram-Gowrelli schemes on a pilot
basis.

EDUCATION HUB: Hyderabad Education Hub is to come up at
Jawaharnagar near Shamirpet. The project comprises complete ecology and
infrastructure of education, focused on world-class graduate and
postgraduate education, associated world-class infrastructure and
facilities for participants and residents of the Hub. The Education Hub
will invite high-quality higher-education institutions to set up
satellite campuses. Individual institutions need only build campuses
with infrastructure specific to their requirement. HMDA will develop
common infrastructure _ from dormitories and libraries to sports
facilities _ mostly in public-private partnership.

ECO PARK: HMDA
has taken up development of an 85-acre Eco Park at Kothwalguda at a cost
of Rs 60 crore. It will have a garden with rare and endangered and
endemic flora, agro park and trails, mountain biking tracks, aquatic
bird park, aviary, public park and picnic area, open-air theatre, solar
farm, Andhra Rural Huts, a butterfly and sculpture park. A Scion Bank
Nursery has already been established at Tellapur and two new nurseries,
costing Rs 20 crore each, are proposed on a 50-acre land at
Peddmangalaram and another on a 100-acre land at Kanakamamidi, both in
Moinabad mandal in Ranga Reddy district.