AV Ranganath
- Telangana
Telangana govt expands HYDRAA powers, hands over monsoon emergency operations
Hyderabad: The Telangana government has granted additional powers to the Hyderabad Disaster Response & Asset Protection Agency (HYDRAA), authorising its Commissioner to finalise tenders for works costing up to Rs 10 crore…
- Telangana
HYDRAA Commissioner asked to appear before HC in contempt case
Hyderabad: Telangana High Court has issued notices to AV Ranganath, Commissioner of HYDRAA, asking why contempt proceedings should not be initiated against him for allegedly failing to comply with court directions regarding…
- Hyderabad
Jubilee Hills MLA, GHMC and HYDRAA chiefs inspect Krishnanagar waterlogging
Hyderabad: Congress MLA from Jubilee Hills Naveen Yadav, Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) Commissioner RV Karnan and HYDRAA Commissioner AV Ranganath on Friday, May 8, visited Krishnanagar in Yousufguda Circle to inspect…
- Hyderabad
90-yr-old farmer moves HC, blames HYDRAA for demolition of property
Hyderabad: There seems to be no respite for HYDRAA Commissioner AV Ranganath from courts. On Wednesday, May 4, the Telangana High Court issued a contempt notice to the officer over violations of…
- Hyderabad
HYDRAA reiterates Bathukamma Kunta has always been a water body
Hyderabad: Hyderabad Disaster Response and Asset Protection Agency (HYDRAA) Commissioner AV Ranganath reiterated that Bathukamma Kunta in Amberpet has historically been a minor irrigation tank which got encroached in the course of…
- Hyderabad
Telangana govt to give 2BHK houses to those displaced by HYDRAA lake works
Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy has decided to sanction double-bedroom houses to the poor who were displaced during the restoration of lakes, Hyderabad Disaster Management and Assets Protection Agency (HYDRAA) Commissioner…
- Hyderabad
HYDRAA removes signages after SC order on Bathukamma encroachment in Hyderabad
Hyderabad:Â The Supreme Court on Monday, April 27, dismissed the Telangana government’s appeal in the Bathukamma Kunta land dispute, leaving intact the Telangana High Court’s order directing the Hyderabad Disaster Response and Asset…
- Hyderabad
Interview: No politician can stop our demolition drives, says HYDRAA chief
Hyderabad: When the Hyderabad Disaster Response and Assets Protection Agency (HYDRAA) swings its demolition hammer, it rarely does so quietly. Since its formation in July 2024, the agency has become Hyderabad’s most talked-about,…
- Hyderabad
Ameenpur demolitions: Residents say they were cheated into buying plots
Hyderabad: After Hyderabad Disaster Response and Asset Protection Agency’s (HYDRAA) recent demolition drive in Ilapuram village located in Ameenpur mandal of Sangareddy district, several people who had bought plots there approached Commissioner…
- Hyderabad
Prajavani: HYDRAA urged to remove encroachments in Hyderabad
Hyderabad: The unending saga of public spaces in layouts, government lands and roads being encroached to be sold as plots; has been the grievance of the public who represented their issues to…
- Hyderabad
Telangana HC finds HYDRAA chief guilty of contempt in Bathukammakunta case
Hyderabad:Â The Telangana High Court has held HYDRAA Commissioner AV Ranganath guilty of contempt of court for wilfully defying a judicial order, directing him to remove all structures and signages erected on seven…
- Hyderabad
87 acre, Rs 10,804 cr: HYDRAA’s anti-encroachment drive so far in 2026
Hyderabad: In the two months since the beginning of 2026, HYDRAA has quietly reclaimed 87.83 acre of land worth at least Rs 10,804 crore, which points to a systematic encroachment on government land,…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad activist urges CM Revanth to halt Bum-Rukn-Ud-Dowla lake’s inaugural
Hyderabad: Social activist Dr Lubna Sarwath on Thursday, March 5, urged Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy not to inaugurate what she termed the “fraud, destruction and wastage of public money” carried…
- Hyderabad
HYDRAA trains 105 volunteers as Youth Disaster Friends
Hyderabad: A total of 105 volunteers from Rangareddy and Hyderabad completed their training as ‘Youth Disaster Friends’ with Hyderabad Disaster Response and Asset Protection Agency (HYDRAA) on Tuesday, February 24. The volunteers…
- Hyderabad
Sunnam Cheruvu FTL unchanged, as per 2014 demarcation: HYDRAA
Hyderabad: The Hyderabad Disaster Response and Asset Protection Agency (HYDRAA) clarified its stand on the Full Tank Level (FTL) concerning the Sunnam Cheruvu in Madhapur, stating its boundaries remain unchanged. The agency…
