Nalla Cheruvu under land grabbers?

Hyderabad: The Nalla Cheruvu located in Kukatpally, is being encroached by land mafia and land grabbers have now set their eyes on the Nalla Cheruvu to construct illegal buildings. The Cheruvu is being filled and reclaimed that the land is being sold off by the land mafia.

A visit to Nalla Cheruvu truck shows that the land grabbers are filling the truck by dumping boulders and loads of construction waste in the water body. A few houses have already come up, while from other side of the pond, a vast portion of the Cheruvu have been occupied and efforts are being made to sell off the encroached portion. During the late-night hours, trucks loads of debris are dumped into the Cheruvu. The activity is going on unhindered for past few years and locals are involved in it.

According to the locals, “they throw wastage in the cheruvu wastage is increasingly and unabatedly poisoning the city's water bodies. Sewage is carried by many tankers, to avoid detection. Slowly they trying to close this Cheruvu by throwing wastage and debris.”

“If they want to sell the land, they sell to only local people of that area. Most of the house construction took place without any documentation. From past few years I’m seeing this Cheruvu and now people have constructed the houses.”, said a resident of that area. “After few years this Cheruvu will slowly get closed. Nalla cheruvu which is known for its beauty too, now it will know for its illegal constructions.”