No space to bury, Hyderabad's Catholic cemetery puts graves up for lease

Hyderabad | Tuesday | 6th November, 2018

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"There are around 40 graves that are being used as lease graves. "There is no space available to build new graves, so reusing graves is a logical alternative," he said. "The Narayanguda cemetery is the first and only one offering this facility in Hyderabad at the moment. Given this acute shortage of burial space, the Christian Catholic Cemetery in Narayanguda as brought home a new concept, already popular in cities such as Mumbai and Bengaluru - lease graves.Here's how the concept works. Old graves of Britishers located within the church's premises are identified and reused for leasing..