Hyderabad Urban Development Authority

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Hyderabad Urban Development Authority
Agency overview
Formed1975
Preceding agency
Dissolved2008
Superseding agency
TypeUrban Planning Agency
Jurisdiction Hyderabad Metropolitan Region
Headquarters Hyderabad, India
17°21′57″N78°28′33″E / 17.36583°N 78.47583°E / 17.36583; 78.47583
Ministers responsible
  • -, Chief Minister
  • -, Roads and Buildings
  • Asaduddin Owaisi, Member of Parliament India
Agency executives
  • -, Chairman
  • -, Vice Chairman
Parent agency Government of Telangana
Website http://www.hmda.gov.in/huda/index.html

The Hyderabad Urban Development Authority (HUDA) was created in 1975, vide an act of the State Assembly of Andhra Pradesh. Its jurisdiction was expanded in 2008 by merging it with the surrounding mandals to form the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority. [1] Devireddy Sudheer Reddy is the Chairman of HUDA from 2004 to 2008. [2]

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Before 1975, the precursor to HUDA was the Bhagyanagar Urban Development Authority.

Shri T Anjiah was the CM at the time, even in 1981, inaugurated several kendras under the auspices of BUDA in Bhagyanagar.

Overview

Before 1975, the precursor to HUDA was the Bhagyanagar Urban Development Authority.

This statutory authority was charged with the acquisition, planning and development of urban facilities and infrastructure throughout Andhra Pradesh, with powers to delineate urban areas and to set up development authorities in these areas. Its first Chairperson was Sarojini Poula Reddy, a Congress Party Member of the State Assembly. The first Vice Chairman and chief executive officer, was Vasant Bawa, of the Indian Administrative Services. The HUDA's first activities were in the Hyderabad metropolitan area. In early 1976 the Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT) from Ahmedabad was engaged to prepared a zonal plan, and Christopher Charles Benninger was engaged to prepare a low income township at Yousufguda, which included more than 2000 "growing houses" on plots ranging from two hundred to one thousand square feet. The idea was to provide a hygienic wet core for each house, a plinth and to allow the participants to construct their won homes. Paved footpaths, street lighting, water supply and sewerage were provided. Participants were extended low interest loans through the Housing and Urban Development Corporation (HUDCO), a central development finance agency. The Authority is currently in the process of being expanded to form the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority(HMDA). [3]

The Chief Planner of HUDA was Anant Bhide, a professional architect and urban planner.

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References

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