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**Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority to Overhaul Urban Planning with Land Pooling and Local Area Development Policies**

**Hyderabad, India – May 31, 2025** – The Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) is poised to implement sweeping changes to its urban development approach, introducing a Comprehensive Land Pooling Policy and Local Area Development Planning (LADP). The goal is to address issues such as the scarcity of land for open spaces, public utilities, social infrastructure, and affordable housing.

Metropolitan Commissioner Sarfaraz Ahmed announced on Saturday that LADP will allow HMDA to engage in micro-level planning, refining the existing Master Plan to ensure better access and organized development within grid areas of 250-300 acres. This will facilitate the allocation of spaces for essential amenities like parks, schools, and hospitals, as well as pedestrian infrastructure.

The new land pooling policy will deviate from the current consent-based approach, modeling itself after the Andhra Pradesh CRDA policy and potentially involving enforcement.

Ahmed also addressed delays in infrastructure projects, attributing them to bureaucratic hurdles related to land surveys, defense permissions, and aviation approvals. He anticipates that works on delayed projects, including elevated corridors, will commence in early August. The radial road connecting the Outer Ring Road with the Regional Ring Road is currently stalled due to ongoing legal challenges and pending forest clearances.

The HMDA is also initiating a reorganisation project this June which includes the mapping of the Telangana Core Urban Region, restructuring of HMDA based on other similar sized UDAs and restructuring of all processes to fit into the new system.

The Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy has given in-principle approval for these initiatives.

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