P. A. CHOUDHARY, J.

( 1 ) THE broad question that falls for consideration is whether the Life Insurance Corporation of India and the Income-tax Department, Hyderabad, can legally use the land owned by them in a recreational zone within the city limits of Hyderabad for residential purposes contrary to the developmental plan published in G. O. Ms. No. 414 M. A. dt. 27-9-1975.

( 2 ) ALTHOUGH the City of Hyderabad was founded about 400 years ago in 1951 (sic) around the present area of the historic Charminar, its growth till recently was never regulated by settled laws. During these four centuries, the city had grown in all directions without any plan or design. Particularly after the formation of the State of Andhra Pradesh and in the aftermath of the second world war, this city had started growing wildly and almost as an uncultivated jungle. For the first time, its civic problems have, therefore, become unmanageable. Although by size and population, Hyderabad is today one of the country s biggest cities, it is a city without any effective and satisfactory provision for elementary civic amenities to its inhabitants. Passers by praise it while its permanent residents curse it. Absence o

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