Secunderabad Cantonment Civic Projects: The Defence Ministry has now agreed to let the money given by the Telangana Government for land acquisition be used to improve things inside Secunderabad Cantonment Board (SCB). This amount, ₹303.62 crore, is the payment for land that will be taken for the construction of two proposed elevated corridors. Earlier, this amount was supposed to go directly into the Consolidated Fund of India, but now, this money will be used within the SCB area for better civic work.
Union Minister for Coal and Mines, G. Kishan Reddy, shared this news while speaking in Hyderabad on Tuesday, July 8, 2025, reported The Hindu. He said that he had personally requested the Defence Minister Rajnath Singh to change the plan and allow the money to stay with the local civic body instead of sending it to the central fund.
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Mr. Reddy said, “I had written two letters to the Defence Minister requesting that the compensation amount should be given to SCB for improving the infrastructure.” Now the Defence Ministry has accepted that request and told the SCB to open an escrow account where this money will be safely kept and used only for local development.
The Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) will make the payment on behalf of the Telangana Government. The money was earlier planned to go to the Defence Ministry, but now it will help improve basic things inside the Cantonment like better drinking water supply, building strong walls along the stormwater drains, repairing and building internal roads, and other such works.
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Mr. Reddy thanked Defence Minister Rajnath Singh for this step. He said that this money will now actually help the people living in the Secunderabad Cantonment area, which has needed these civic improvements for a long time. He appreciated the support and quick action by the Defence Ministry in accepting his suggestion and helping the local people.
