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Congress seeks cancellation of HUDA auction

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, FEB. 17. The Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) has demanded that the recent auction of the plots of the Hyderabad Urban Development Authority (HUDA) at Nandagiri Hills in Jubilee Hills be cancelled. It has also sought an enquiry into the auction process.

The auction held on February 14 and 15 saw bidders quoting astronomical prices. The APCC joint secretary, G. Niranjan, in a representation to the HUDA Vice-Chairperson, appealed for stopping the allotment of plots sold in the auction. Otherwise, an agitation would be launched against the anti-people policies of the Government and the HUDA, he said.

The APCC leader alleged that real estate businessmen, in a planned manner, utilised the auction to increase the land prices abnormally in the city. "Even Non-Resident Indians have expressed their surprise over the price at which the plots had been auctioned saying that they are much higher than the land value in big cities of USA," he said.

Criticising the policy being pursued by the HUDA and the Government for the auction of its plots, Mr. Niranjan alleged it was only benefiting real estate businessmen.

Earlier, the HUDA and the Housing Board had a policy of constructing housing colonies to cater to the needs of the common and middle class sections to help them realise the dream of owning a house. But over the years, they had been functioning like commercial organisations with a profit motive, he said.

He demanded that the HUDA construct houses on these plots and allot the same to the middle income groups through lottery system to check the activities of real estate traders and the abnormal boom in land prices.

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