HYDERABAD: Amid apprehensions expressed by heritage lovers that the state is all set to demolish the 100-year-old Osmania Common Hospital constructing at Afzalgunj to boost instead a brand new constructing to deal with the hospital, the state authorities on Thursday knowledgeable the excessive court docket that it has arrange a four-member specialists crew to check the structural energy of the constructing and take a choice whether or not or to not demolish this constructing.
The excessive court docket judges, nonetheless, mentioned that they won't solely depend on the state-led specialists’ committee, however, if essential, could get it verified by IIT specialists and Archaeological Survey officers.
A bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice NTukaramji was listening to petitions filed by Osmania Medical School Alumni Affiliation in search of demolition of buildings to pave manner for a brand new advanced on one facet and a bunch of people and NGOs in search of safety and preservation of the heritage construction on the opposite.
Harender Pershad, the state’s particular counsel, furnished a March 10 GO issued by the state authorities that constituted a four-member specialists crew to check the problem. Actually, the GO said that the state well being division has already despatched a proposal to the federal government urging it to acquire the required permission to demolish the outdated buildings at OGH. The federal government has referred the matter to the committee.
Arguing the case of those that need to shield the constructions, their counsel Okay S Murthy mentioned that the state was supposed to guard and renovate the heritage constructions. The state authorities has allowed the constructing to develop into dilapidated. Sama Sandeep Reddy, the counsel for the docs affiliation that desires a model new constructing to come back up within the place of outdated constructions, mentioned that the purpose of the Nizam in constructing the construction was to offer a superb hospital for the folks.
The bench mentioned that they might not solely depend on the state-led specialists’ committee. “If essential, we too will get the OGH buildings verified by specialists. We're aware of the truth that many historical constructions are robust than a number of newly constructed ones,” the bench mentioned, whereas adjourning the case to April 8.