Mahbub college loses land

Apr 21, 2012 |

Hyderabad

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Education

A five-year-old battle over a piece of prime land ended on Friday, when the state government decided to take it over from Mahbub College High School, Secunderabad.

The school pleaded that the 2,028-sq-yard leasehold land located on the busy Rashtrapati Road, allotted to them as a playground, be converted into freehold land and they be permitted to use it for commercial purposes, such as the construction of a building for Andhra Bank.

According to Anil Chandra Punetha, principal secretary to the government, revenue department, the request was rejected because the government said the college authorities had not renewed the lease in 1996, after the expiry of the 30-year lease period.

The government, therefore, asked the Hyderabad district collector to allot the land either to the Ramakrishna Math (Swami Viveka-nanda Centre for Human Excellence) Hyderabad, for setting up the Vive-kananda Institute of Moral and Spiritual Education or for the construction of a government office complex.

However, Dr N. Premnarayan, a member of the school committee, said, “We will approach the government again to urge it to reconsider its decision.

We have already intimated the government that we have dropped the proposal for commercial use of the land and we will utilise it as a playground only.”

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