Civil society groups Urges Telangana Govt To Review Musi River Project

Civil society groups have urged the Telangana government to pause and review the Musi Riverfront Development Project, stating that the initiative is socio-ecologically unjust, financially opaque and being pushed forward without public consultation.

At a press conference in Hyderabad on Friday, November 28, leaders of the Musi Jan Andolan (MJA), a collective of environmentalists, human rights groups and riverbank communities, said the project was being advanced without clarity on its purpose, legal compliance or environmental



safeguards.

Representatives, Jeevan Kumar and Syed Bilal of the Human Rights Forum, Varghese Theckanath of CHATRI, Sajaya Kakarla of WT-JAC, Meera Sanghamitra (NAPM), Anand, Vishali (CARRSIRD) and several local residents, voiced alarm over the state’s approach.

They argued that the government has yet to explain whether the project is aimed at cleaning, rejuvenating, beautifying or commercialising the Musi, and accused officials of treating settlements along the river as the primary source of pollution while ignoring decades of untreated industrial effluents entering the water.