Paradise–Shamirpet land move starts. Clarity, when?
Acquisition is on record for the elevated corridor; owners want cash and a narrower road. The Congress-run state promised “transparent compensation” — the formula is still missing in action.
The proposed corridor is on record; its compensation formula is not.
Land acquisition for the elevated corridor from Paradise/JBS to the Shamirpet ORR on Rajiv Rahadari is formally in motion: Medchal–Malkajgiri district has approved a Form VII declaration for Thumkunta village lands, the official notice shows.
What the project is: a corridor described in a district press release as 18.70 km from Paradise Junction to Shamirpet ORR Junction. The Hyderabad Collector told property owners in February that compensation would be “transparent”, and explained the policy framework at a meeting.
What owners want: the Rajiv Rahadari property owners’ JAC has opposed taking the road to 200 feet, submitted a 112‑foot alternative, and sought compensation pegged to market value — in their words, far higher than routine valuations. A joint SCB–HMDA survey earlier put more than 1,100 properties in the firing line on one stretch.
What’s missing: the government has not published a corridor‑specific compensation formula or a final decision on road width in the records we could locate. The legal TDR framework exists statewide, but there’s no order on making TDR the rule for this corridor. For an 18.70‑km build running through dense neighbourhoods, that silence is policy by shrug.
The BJP will claim process, the TDP will claim precedent; neither writes cheques here. The Congress government in Telangana owes owners the numbers it promised — in writing, not in a meeting.