Everything You Need to Know About GO-111 in Hyderabad

About GO-111 in Hyderabad

The GO-111 is a government order that was issued in 1996 that followed the precautionary principle in order to protect the reservoirs mainly the drinking water requirement of Hyderabad. The saddest part of the GO-111 is despite the protection of these lakes by the Government, the rapid urbanization and selfish attitude of people have resulted in encroachment of FTL areas and the catchment area of these lakes, damaging the precious water sources.

So, the government of Andhra Pradesh has declared a 10 km peripheral area within the catchment area of the two lakes of Osmansagar and Himayatsagar. Green Belt is needed for the city so that there is no pollution to these drinking water lakes, especially a ‘No Development Zone’.

What is the objective of GO-111?

To protect the Osmansagar & Himayatsagar lakes and their Catchments which are drinking water sources for Hyderabad, especially the Old City. The said Govt. The order prohibits the following type of activities in the catchment area of the two lakes up to 10 km from the FTL.

What does it prohibit?

It prohibits Industries, major hotels, residential colonies, and other establishments that generate pollution

What does it permit?

It permits only existing residential colonies in the existing residential use zone.

What does it direct?

Its guideline basically meant for the Master Plan Land Use Allocation. It defines that 90 % of the overall area should be classified as Conservation Use and Recreation Use wherein only agriculture, farming, and gardening activities only would be allowed.

To prevent acidification of the 2 lakes, no industries shall be allowed within 10 km of both upstream and downstream of the 2 lakes.

What does it signify?

It signifies that:

• No more than 10 % may be classified as Residential Use zone in the Master Plan.
• It clarifies that in this 10 % permissible Residential Use zone, the following restrictions should be ensured:
• 60 % of the layouts as open spaces and roads
• In the building plots, the FSI to be restricted to 0.5

What are the areas covered under it?

It covers 84 Villages in Shamsabad, Moinabad, Chevella, Rajendernagar, Mandals mainly.

The rules, however, could soon become a thing of the past, chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has indicated even as environmentalists continue to protest the move. Environmentalists, who believe increased construction activities in the lack of the rules could pollute the water bodies and their surrounding areas. So people are expected to adhere to their ordnance strictly. In the past, attempts to do away with the rules did not generate any results.

What are the major concerns?

As per the EPTRI Study Report of 2007, the inflows into the lakes are dwindling and many a time both lakes have dried up ( reduced to their ‘dead storage levels’) due to massive intervention by way of obstructions and diversions of inflows due to construction of Check dams/Water Harvesting Structures (more than 28000 in number for the 2 lakes)in the entire Catchments. Since the past two decades, the 2 lakes have never reached their FTL. Therefore –

Implementing strictly the lakes restoration provisions, viz. increasing the inflows by removing the obstructions like the Check dams, desilting the water bodies and channels, removing encroachments in the water spread (FTL), increasing the green cover by taking up massive block afforestation in the vicinity.

It implied that raising up the hackles of unauthorized constructions is not going to solve the quantity and quality of water in the two lakes (which incidentally is the focus of GO 111 and the earlier orders. The government must focus on the main problem that is impeding the inflows into the two lakes that of the more than 28,000 check dams and other water harvesting structures that have literally killed the two lakes- just as these two reservoirs have killed the River Musi.

What is the total catchment areas of the two lakes?

The total Catchment area of the two lakes is about 584 sq km i.e., 58400 hectares or 144248 acres.

Can the GO-111 be amended?

Yes, it can. There were regular requests from politicians, farmers, landholders located within the said prohibitory zone of the GO-111 to amend this Order so that environment and pressure of development are balanced. In fact, the state government while issuing subsequent Orders in 2008 of constituting a Lake Protection Committee also stressed the need for preparing Area Development Plans covering the above areas. Nothing came of this and there is status quo. Over time, many developments in terms of unauthorized layouts and other non-residential developments all of which are unauthorized, have come up after 1996. This is due to the pressure of development.

List of villages that come under the GO-111 bio-conservation zone and the catchment area of Osmansagar and Himayatsagar Hyderabad

S/No	Zone	District	Mandal	Village
1	Shankerpally	Ranga Reddy	Moinabad	Aziznagar
2	Shankerpally	Ranga Reddy	Moinabad	Yenkatpally
3	Shankerpally	Ranga Reddy	Moinabad	Mumtazguda
4	Shankerpally	Ranga Reddy	Moinabad	Sajjanpalli
5	Shankerpally	Ranga Reddy	Moinabad	Surgangal
6	Shankerpally	Ranga Reddy	Moinabad	Naebnagar
7	Shankerpally	Ranga Reddy	Moinabad	Bangallaguda
8	Shankerpally	Ranga Reddy	Moinabad	Nagireddiguda
9	Shankerpally	Ranga Reddy	Moinabad	Bakaramjagir
10	Shankerpally	Ranga Reddy	Moinabad	Andapur
11	Shankerpally	Ranga Reddy	Moinabad	Dargatdrula
12	Shankerpally	Ranga Reddy	Moinabad	Venkatpuram
13	Shamshabad	Ranga Reddy	Shamshabad	Malkaram
14	Shamshabad	Ranga Reddy	Shamshabad	Kolbawatidoddi
15	Shamshabad	Ranga Reddy	Shamshabad	Sultanpalli
16	Shamshabad	Ranga Reddy	Shamshabad	Yacharam
17	Shamshabad	Ranga Reddy	Shamshabad	Rayangudda
18	Shamshabad	Ranga Reddy	Shamshabad	Chowdariguda
19	Shamshabad	Ranga Reddy	Shamshabad	Markhudda
20	Shamshabad	Ranga Reddy	Shamshabad	Amapelli
21	Shamshabad	Ranga Reddy	Shamshabad	Harrigudda
22	Shamshabad	Ranga Reddy	Shamshabad	Kotwalguda
23	Shamshabad	Ranga Reddy	Shamshabad	Shamshabad
24	Shamshabad	Ranga Reddy	Shamshabad	Kishanguda
25	Shamshabad	Ranga Reddy	Shamshabad	Ottapalli
26	Shamshabad	Ranga Reddy	Shamshabad	Tondapalli
27	Shamshabad	Ranga Reddy	Shamshabad	Devatabowli
28	Shamshabad	Ranga Reddy	Shamshabad	Talkatta
29	Shamshabad	Ranga Reddy	Shamshabad	Etbarpalli
30	Shamshabad	Ranga Reddy	Shamshabad	Makanpally
31	Shamshabad	Ranga Reddy	Shamshabad	Kattireddypally
32	Shamshabad	Ranga Reddy	Shamshabad	Yenkamadi
33	Shamshabad	Ranga Reddy	Shamshabad	Ramangipur
34	Shamshabad	Ranga Reddy	Shamshabad	Kevatriguda
35	Shamshabad	Ranga Reddy	Shamshabad	Mangipur
36	Shamshabad	Ranga Reddy	Shamshabad	Jukal
37	Shamshabad	Ranga Reddy	Shamshabad	Gandigudda
38	Shamshabad	Ranga Reddy	Shamshabad	Peddashapur
39	Shamshabad	Ranga Reddy	Shamshabad	Madanpally
40	Shamshabad	Ranga Reddy	Shamshabad	Palmakula
41	Shamshabad	Ranga Reddy	Shamshabad	Gangiraiguda
42	Shamshabad	Ranga Reddy	Shamshabad	Cherlaguda
43	Shamshabad	Ranga Reddy	Shamshabad	Hameedullanagar
44	Shamshabad	Ranga Reddy	Shamshabad	Osettiguda
45	Shamshabad	Ranga Reddy	Shamshabad	Gowlapallykand
46	Shamshabad	Ranga Reddy	Shamshabad	Rashidguda
47	Shamshabad	Ranga Reddy	Shamshabad	Syedguda
48	Shamshabad	Ranga Reddy	Shamshabad	Gollapallekalan
49	Shamshabad	Ranga Reddy	Shamshabad	Bahadurguda
50	Shamshabad	Ranga Reddy	Shamshabad	Golkondakhur
51	Shamshabad	Ranga Reddy	Shamshabad	Shakerpur
52	Shamshabad	Ranga Reddy	Shamshabad	Sangiguda
53	Shamshabad	Ranga Reddy	Shamshabad	Golkondakalan
54	Shankerpally	Ranga Reddy	Shabad	Sollipet
55	Shankerpally	Ranga Reddy	Shabad	Maddur
56	Shamshabad	Ranga Reddy	Kothur	Gudur
57	Shankerpally	Ranga Reddy	Moinabad	Himayat Nagar
58	Shankerpally	Ranga Reddy	Moinabad	Chikkoor
59	Shankerpally	Ranga Reddy	Moinabad	Chanda Nagar
60	Shankerpally	Ranga Reddy	Moinabad	Medipally
61	Shankerpally	Ranga Reddy	Moinabad	Chinna Mangalaram
62	Shankerpally	Ranga Reddy	Moinabad	Mothukupally
63	Shankerpally	Ranga Reddy	Moinabad	Reddypally
64	Shankerpally	Ranga Reddy	Moinabad	Pedda Mangalaram
65	Shankerpally	Ranga Reddy	Rajendranagar	Khanpur
66	Shankerpally	Ranga Reddy	Rajendranagar	Gunugurthy
67	Shankerpally	Ranga Reddy	Rajendranagar	Vatti Nagulapally
68	Shankerpally	Ranga Reddy	Shankerpally	Janwada
69	Shamshabad	Ranga Reddy	Shamshabad	Dhatampally
70	Shamshabad	Ranga Reddy	Shamshabad	Maharajpet
71	Shamshabad	Ranga Reddy	Shamshabad	Gopularam
72	Shamshabad	Ranga Reddy	Shamshabad	Poddutur
73	Shamshabad	Ranga Reddy	Shamshabad	Chinna Shapur
74	Shamshabad	Ranga Reddy	Shamshabad	Tol Matta
75	Shankerpally	Ranga Reddy	Chevella	Yenkapally
76	Shankerpally	Ranga Reddy	Chevella	Yerlapally
77	Shankerpally	Ranga Reddy	Chevella	Kanmeta
78	Shankerpally	Ranga Reddy	Chevella	Gollapally
79	Shankerpally	Ranga Reddy	Chevella	Raviapally
80	Shankerpally	Ranga Reddy	Chevella	Mudimyal
81	Shankerpally	Ranga Reddy	Rajendranagar	Mumera
82	Shankerpally	Ranga Reddy	Rajendranagar	Malakpur
83	Shankerpally	Ranga Reddy	Shankerpally	Tankutur
84	Shankerpally	Ranga Reddy	Shankerpally	Bulkapur

Sources: HMDA Website

GO-111, Hyderabad Updates

1. In March 2017, the Telangana government plans to lift the prohibition on construction activities in and around Osmansagar and Himayatnagar lakes in an effort to support real estate and recreation development in the region that comprises 84 villages. The authority has been receiving the regular pressure from real estate developers and public representatives of these villages where development activities have been ignored for a long time.
2. In December 2018, Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao addressing a public meeting at Chevella promised protesters in the catchment areas of Osmansagar and Himayatsagar that the Government Order (GO) No 111 of 1996 will be scrapped once the TRS comes to power again. He said that GO-111 was excessive as the two reservoirs in the city’s outskirts were no longer sources of drinking water for the people of Hyderabad. The city is getting water from both Godavari and Krishna rivers.
3. In June 2019, there was speculation that the Government Order (GO) could be lifted or eased by the government. As a result, Shankarpally, Shamshabad, Gandipet, Qutbullapur, Ibrahimpatnam, Maheswaram, and Shadnagar registered the highest real estate growth in those localities.
4. In September 2019, it is found that despite GO-111 in force, there is more than 13,000 illegal construction that is in the catchment area. The majority of the illegal buildings have come up in Moinabad, Nagireddyguda, Shamshabad villages, Chinnamangalaram, Chevelle, and Aziznagar. Challenging these illegal constructions, some environmentalists had filed a petition with National Green Tribunal (NGT).
5. In October 2019, there has been speculation with the launch of the Layout Regularisation Scheme (LRS) for the 68-newly formed municipalities. LRS that came into effect from October 15 clearly states that unauthorized layouts or plots under the GO-111 would not be regularised and restriction on development activity and layouts would continue along with other provisions of the Master Plan or of the HMDA. Regularisation is only for layouts or plots sold out by registered sale deed on or before 30th March 2018.

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