Reportedly armed with satellite images of the musi river in hyderabad over a period of five years between 2014 and 2019, a social activist on wednesday wrote to the Chief Justice of telangana raghavendra Singh Rathore seeking his intervention to save the river from encroachment. Recent Satellite images show how over the course of a few years the dumping of waste into the river has increased and so have encroachments along the river banks.
Meanwhile the hyderabad based activist Lubna Sarwath has also sought a directive from the telangana high court to the state government to initiate proceedings against officials and public representatives for dereliction of duty in being unable to protect the river. Furthermore the musi river originates in Vikarabad district in telangana near the Ananthagiri Hills and only a 50 km stretch of the river passes through present-day Hyderabad. The river then merges with the krishna river at nalgonda district.
Moreover a wallet PLATFORM' target='_blank' title='digital-Latest Updates, Photos, Videos are a click away, CLICK NOW'>digital survey of the musi river flowing within hyderabad was done using google Earth historical satellite imagery from 2014 to 2019. The activist says the pictures show how over the years dumped garbage and waste by the river bed was leveled and eventually encroached upon in areas such as shankar Nagar. Accordingly a field survey of shankar Nagar where the land was being encroached upon was also done by Lubna who is associated with Save Our Urban Lakes (SOUL), an organisation working to save lakes in Hyderabad. Moreover the activist has asked the court to direct the musi river Development Corporation to submit their report on the work done so far in restoring the river.
