Qutub Shah authority has no funds

Hyderabad: The Quli Qutub Shah Urban Development Authority (QQSUDA), which was established in 1981 to carry out developmental activities in the Old City, is now struggling for survival. It is one of the institutions neglected by successive governments, although the Chief Minister of the state holds the post of chairman.

Employees of the urban body complained that after the formation of the new state the authority has been neglected. The state government has not been a sanctioning budgetary allocation for its development.

They were not allocating works under the public representatives’ area development funds and transferring it to the south zone of the GHMC.

S. Sanjiv, a junior assistant at the authority, said that it  had a track of works done by the authority in the past which include works on Quli Qutub Shah stadium, the Deccan Park in the vicinity of the Quli Qutub Shah tombs, the swimming pool at Moghalpura, junior college buildings in Qilla Golconda, Talagadda, Khurshidjah Devdi and Kabbadi stadium in Dhoolpet etc.

“In the 1990s, we were allotted works for more than Rs50 crores a year when J.R. Anand was the administrator. After his transfer, our agency was neglected,” he said.

Now our administrator is none other than the GHMC commissioner, but we are neglected by the GHMC officials and do not even get salaries on time, he said

Vice-president of the employees’ union, Mohammed Bahadur Khan, complained that the employees are yet to get the salary for December.

He said that Rs6.88 crores per annum is needed for salaries but the government has allocated only Rs4 crores.

Meanwhile, the GHMC commissioner served notice to the authority for dismantling of existing structures housing the MCH store, administrative chamber block, election storage room and planning block for the proposed multilevel parking.

Officials of the Hyderabad Metro Rail Ltd. had demarcated land for the construction of a multilevel car parking facility in the vicinity of the authority.

Interestingly, the notice served by Dana Kishore, the commissioner of GHMC, is also the administrator of QQSUDA.