Synopsis: Countering KTR’s claims, the minister clarified that while 9,292 acres were being cited in public discourse, only 4,740 acres had actually been allotted to industries after proper plotting. The remaining lands, he said, had been used for essential public infrastructure such as roads and drainage networks.

Industries and IT Minister Duddilla Sridhar Babu on Friday, 21 November, launched a counteroffensive against BRS working president KT Rama Rao for his allegations of a “₹5 lakh crore scam” in the government’s move to levy an impact fee for the conversion of industrial lands.

Addressing a news conference at the Secretariat, the minister described KTR’s charge as “malicious propaganda” and said the former minister was misleading the public by twisting facts.

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