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HUDA’s search for accommodation continues

HYDERABAD: The Hyderabad Urban Development Authority (HUDA) continues to hunt for proper accommodation, even as it has received a letter from the Government to vacate Paigah Palace at the earliest handing it over to U.S Consulate authorities.

What it has on hand now is only eight rooms at the Greenlands guesthouse where as the Paigah Palace is a spacious building easily housing the offices of Chairman, Vice-Chairman, Secretary, planning, engineering, public relations, land section, accounts and other wings.

When HUDA employees insisted on the guesthouse as an alternative accommodation to move out of the palace, little did they realise that only eight rooms would be made available.

“These eight rooms are not at all sufficient. When the Chief Minister agreed to allot the guesthouse, there was no indication of the number of rooms. The clause of only ‘eight rooms’ came from the General Administration Department,” said an official.

Yet, HUDA authorities are reluctant to go back to the Chief Minister on the issue again. The planning body’s problems got accentuated when the GHMC did not allot all the five floors in its new building at Secunderabad. Instead, it spared three floors only of which only the third floor was ready to use.

As such, it has been decided to drop the building for now and HUDA has once again zeroed on the A.P Genco building at Yousufguda to shift its offices other than a part of the Greenlands guesthouse. A.P Genco too has agreed to allot a part of its building.

HUDA Chairman D. Sudheer Reddy is in favour of moving into the A.P. Genco building temporarily till a “convenient option” is explored. With the Vice-Chairman away on leave for the last one week and no clear-cut direction given on the alternative premises,

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