Regularisation of quarters sought

HYDERABAD: Members of the Joint Action Committee of Ex-Servicemen living in Band Lines and other areas like AC Guards, Masab Tank have offered to pay 50 per cent of the land market value of their existing quarters and requested the government to regularise them.

Over 480 ex-servicemen families, successors to the soldiers who served in the erstwhile Nizam Army reside in these quarters, including those at Mohamedi Lines in an area spanning 27 acres.

After disbandment of the Nizam Army, the soldiers were provided temporary rehabilitation in PWD quarters at concessional rents in the above localities.

Of the 479 quarters, the government authorised 315 and the rest were declared un-authorised, claimed JAC general secretary Rajendra Prasad.

He said the government, while accepting applications for regularising encroachments, was denying the same for them.

He also charged the government of planning to hand over the quarters land to private developers and also to make way for Rajiv Gruhakalpa Apartments.

An Assembly Committee had even recommended the government to regularise the quarters under hire-purchase system, he claimed.