Telangana: Green Tribunal stops levelling lake, asks NHAI to build elevated bridge
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has prevented the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) from levelling part of a lake in Telangana’s Suryapet district and directed it to construct an elevated bridge so as to not disturb the water body.
As part of the four-laning of the Suryapet-Khammam highway (NH 365 BB), the NHAI acquired private lands in the Chuttugunta lake’s buffer zone in consultation with the district administration and upon receiving no objection to its public notice in 2017, started to dumb soil on those lands leaving aside only the culvert area.
A case was filed against this before the NGT bench in November 2020 by Nalgonda resident Dusharla Satyanarayana. A site inspection was conducted by a joint committee in December 2021, as ordered by the tribunal.
