Govt. pushing imaginative Future City to benefit CM’s friends, kin: KTR

HYDERABAD

Working president of Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) K.T. Rama Rao said there’s no future to the Future City being planned by the Congress government as it is only in the imagination of Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy and aimed at giving away the Pharma City lands to his friends and family members for their interests.

In a statement, Mr. Rama Rao said on Sunday that Mr. Revanth Reddy’s efforts would not fructify as the lands acquired for industrial needs could not be used for real estate development. He stated that he had warned the State government in 2023 itself in the Assembly that the land use was not transferable.

He observed that lack of vision of the Revanth Reddy government had wasted public money and huge investments in the pipeline for Pharma City had gone back along with large-scale employment opportunities following pushing Pharma City into cold storage. Even the farmers who had given up their lands for the purpose were feeling let down as they were hoping for jobs for their family members in Pharma City.

He said the Chief Minister had scrapped the prestigious Pharma City project taken up by the K. Chandrasekhar Rao government and planned imaginative and fictitious Future City project, forgetting the fact that the land acquired for a specific purpose under the 2013 Land Acquisition Act could not be transferred for another purpose, particularly the real estate business.

The government had spent crores on the public relations exercise to promote Future City and was facing legal issues. The BRS government had prepared plans for the Pharma City in 20,000 acres in the limits of 56 villages and convinced several farmers who were against giving up lands.