Punjagutta’s Dwarakapuri colony faces safety risks from unauthorized commercial establishments
Hyderabad : Residents of Dwarakapuri Colony in Panjagutta complain about the alleged illegal commercial activities in their colony without any authorized permissions to run the same in residential areas. Despite residents complaining to the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, the residents say that there is no action taken. Dwarakapuri is a colony in Punjagutta consisting of residential houses, which was developed, allotted, and sold to the then Municipality, Hyderabad, way back in 1959, according to the locals.
Speaking to the Hyderabdmail, Syed Shoaib one of resident of Dwarakapuri Colony, Punjagutta said, “One of the tenants staying in a residential building is using the same area for a nonresidential and commercial purposes, which is causing great inconvenience and giving nightmarish experiences to other residents of the residential colony. They are storing life threatening materials like gas cylinders, electrical equipment, wires, pipes, etc., that too without any safety measures, safety gears, or fire safety equipment. Further, one of the building’s first floors got engulfed a couple of months back, resulting in total loss of the property and posing a huge risk to neighbors.”
Roads being blocked
Further, adding to the woes, with the commercial activity in the colony, the inner lanes of the colony roads are being blocked by to and fro transport of the shop. “We residents reside in the same colony peacefully since many years without any disturbance, but these non locals running illegal and unauthorized business in our colony, are trying to spoil the environment through different means, ie, unlawful gathering, blocking of road, threatening fellow residents, making gestures, criminal instigation/intimidation, illegal storage of hazardous material like gas cylinders, electrical equipment, inflammables, which they keep loading/unloading in the transport vehicles,” said another resident.
Residents alleged that although complaints were made to GHMC and Panjagutta police, they were not heard. The residents further demanded that the concerned officials should act and stop the illegal unauthorized, unsafe, and nonresidential usage of residential promises immediately, and seal the premises in the interest of safety and peace.
