Varwa threatens to move court against proposed integrated museum project

  • | Wednesday | 14th November, 2018

As for the legal action against VMRDA’s proposed project, we have not yet finalised the course of action but it has not been ruled out. The project will adversely impact not just residents living along the Beach Road but the city as a whole and would not be a sustainable one. No environment impact assessment study has been done for the project. A public interest litigation (PIL) will require resource mobilization, which will take some time. However, we will support if someone comes forward to file a PIL before the judiciary.”Vice president of Varwa also said that they will be writing to the VMRDA asking them to update the latest developments, revise the proposed project, if necessary, and also upload the minutes of the public hearing, where hundreds of people from the civil society and resident welfare associations as well as government representatives from civic and defence bodies were present.

Visakhapatnam: Members of Visakhapatnam Apartment Residents Welfare Association (Varwa) is planning to stage protests and hold awareness meets and take legal action in future against VMRDA’s plans to set up the Rs 100-crore integrated museum complex and underground parking project at the Beach Road.The members have also raised questioned as to why the Visakhapatnam Metropolitan Regional Development Authority ( VMRDA ) has not uploaded the minutes of the public hearing on the project, which took place last month.During the hearing Vizagites had unanimously rejected the proposals for the project, stating that the project was unnecessary and detrimental to the coastal ecology and environment.A V Ramana Rao, vice president of Varwa said, “We will be conducting a protest meet at the Beach Road soon and have plans to conduct pocket meetings in various parts of the city to make the public aware about the harmful effects of constructing underground parking at an erosion-prone area close to the sea. The project will adversely impact not just residents living along the Beach Road but the city as a whole and would not be a sustainable one. No environment impact assessment study has been done for the project. As for the legal action against VMRDA’s proposed project, we have not yet finalised the course of action but it has not been ruled out. A public interest litigation (PIL) will require resource mobilization, which will take some time. However, we will support if someone comes forward to file a PIL before the judiciary.”Vice president of Varwa also said that they will be writing to the VMRDA asking them to update the latest developments, revise the proposed project, if necessary, and also upload the minutes of the public hearing, where hundreds of people from the civil society and resident welfare associations as well as government representatives from civic and defence bodies were present.

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