HYDERABAD: The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) has taken exception to the proposal to sell Government land to certain corporate hospitals near Visakhapatnam at half the market value as part of the "health city" project.

Addressing a press conference, the TDP leaders -- M.V. Mysoora Reddy, K. Vijayarama Rao and S. Venugopala Chary -- wanted the Government to take up the project on its own as originally planned instead of handing over the prime land to private hospitals run along commercial lines.

Quoting from a letter written by the Visakhapatnam district Collector to the Principal Secretary, Animal Husbandry and Dairy Development Department, they said the land was proposed to be given at Rs. 60.60 lakhs per acre as against the market value of Rs. 1.20 crores. This was unwarranted given the fact that that they did not treat poor patients free of cost. When they were told that there were precedents for allotment of Government land to hospitals they said they were done at a time when there were no hospitals in the private sector.

Mr. Vijayarama Rao also alleged that an extent of over six acres of prime land close to Jubilee Hills in Shaikpet area here was granted exemption from the land ceiling law and regularised in great haste on May 31, in violation of the Government Order No. 455.

The exemption was given even while there was dispute over ownership and the land in question did not fulfil any of the conditions laid down in the GO.

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