Bringing to fore the row over land allocation made to Bathini Trust in Rangareddy district, the Exhibition Society sought to know from the Hyderabad district administration why it should lend space for the annual Fish Prasdam camp when the trust had its land.
The trust was allocated five acres land in Katedan village in 2001 to administer the Fish Prasadam to thousands of people who arrive from near and far for the annual event. However, the trust did not use the land until 2008 when government ordered resuming the land and allocated it to two government bodies. A court battle followed which saw government’s orders, quashed. Before it accorded permission to the trust to conduct the camp this year on June 8, 9, the exhibition society wrote to the Collector why it should spare the exhibition grounds. “We had written to the Collector in view of infrastructure inadequacy at the exhibition grounds given the crowds expected this year,” said Dr. D. Gangadhar Rao, the society’s vice-president adding that permission is being given to the trust.
The trust conducted its first ever camp at Katedan only in 2012, after the court’s directions. Interestingly, the government is yet to accord fresh orders allocating the land in the trust’s favour. However, the trust continues to hold physical possession of the land in Katedan.
