The Congress government in Telangana is facing criticism over its Hyderabad Industrial Lands Transformation Policy (HILTP), which allows conversion of industrial lands within the Outer Ring Road. Industries Minister D. Sridhar Babu defended the policy, citing demand for land and examples from other States.

Hyderabad: From the forest lands of Kancha Gachibowli to the auction of TGIIC plots and now the controversy over the Hyderabad Industrial Lands Transformation Policy ( HILTP ), the Congress is repeatedly contradicting its own earlier position on the sale of government lands.

While in the opposition, the Congress had vehemently objected to auctioning public lands, with Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, then TPCC president, arguing that government lands were ‘the State’s wealth’ a

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