Citizen-led movement against KBR National Park choking flyovers & tree felling. Matter sub judice. For Hyderabad’s last green lung 🌿

Hyderabad, India
This is what happens when a government doesn’t listen to its citizens and chooses to go its own way. 📰 As per @thhyderabad @SVadlamoodi report, the Telangana government is considering reducing H-CITI’s proposed 14 flyovers and underpasses to just ONE elevated corridor. But why stop at one? Why not shelve the entire flyover project around KBR National Park? Hyderabadis have reached this stage after: 🔴 Multiple peaceful street protests 🔴 Police detentions 🔴 High Court proceedings 🔴 Supreme Court proceedings 🔴 Repeated appeals for scientific alternatives And what has Hyderabad lost in the process? 🌳 Thousands of age-old trees in KBR’s Eco-Sensitive Zone. The one-way traffic system around KBR has now shown what citizens have been saying for years: Simple, practical traffic solutions were possible all along. So why was a disastrous project involving thousands of crores of taxpayers’ money pushed around Hyderabad’s last green lung—putting KBR’s existence at risk in the name of solving traffic woes? @TelanganaCMO @revanth_anumula @GHMCOnline @CommissionrGHMC must answer: Why flyovers were approved in KBR's eco-sensitive zone❓ Where are the mandatory DPR, EIA, Environmental & Social Impact Assessment, inter-generational impact study, traffic impact studies and cost-benefit analysis❓ Were these studies placed in the public domain before execution❓ Which experts, climate scientists and urban mobility professionals were consulted❓ Why did the so called Tree Protection Committee approve the axing of thousands of trees in KBR’s ESZ without a detailed and transparent public study❓ This is not merely about reducing 14 structures to 1. It is about accountability, scientific decision-making and the future of Hyderabad. Citizens are ready to suggest better alternatives. Will the government finally listen? @moefcc #SaveKBR #Hyderabad #ClimateAction #India
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Hyderabadis have been told for years that flyover after flyover is the ultimate solution to the city’s traffic problems. But is it really? Or are we simply building more flyovers to solve a problem that flyovers themselves cannot solve? 🎥 These videos say it all. #SaveKBR #Hyderabad
గచ్చిబౌలి ఐకియా వద్ద భారీగా ట్రాఫిక్ జామ్ వాహనాల రాకపోకలకు తీవ్ర అంతరాయం ఐకియా పరిసర ప్రాంతాల్లో భారీగా నిలిచిపోయిన వాహనాలు #HyderabadTraffic #IKEA #TV9Telugu
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Every project impacting KBR has met bad luck. Though only a few people come out and protest.. millions in #Hyderabad want #KBR intact. We wish for KBR to be further strengthened.. What KBR needs is further exclusivity.. further isolation.. from “development” 1. Remove all eateries 2. Remove all hoardings 3. Shift multi level parking from peripheries 4. Ensure KBR lake is free of sewage. 5. Ensure clean rainwater flows into KBR through drains… etc As for traffic management it’s not complicated and can be fixed with very little effort. All it needs is a multi level approach..
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We citizens are waiting for the day when government action is truly focused on making Hyderabad a liveable city—not just a bigger concrete city. Today, the painful reality is very different. Citizens are having to take to the streets and approach courts just to protect whatever little ecological space Hyderabad has left. KBR, our lakes, trees and other natural spaces are not luxuries—they are what make this city liveable. How did protecting a city’s remaining green spaces become a fight that citizens have to wage? Hyderabad deserves development. But it also deserves to breathe. #SaveKBR #Hyderabad
Why lessons from #Hyderabad’s KBR faux pas must inform our future The Govt appears to have realised the futility of more #road infra only after the stretch around the park was converted to 1⃣-way traffic🚗🚌🛵🛺 to facilitate the structures @Hindu_vs thehindu.com/news/national/t…
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This is sad and totally unwelcome. Hyderabadis survive on water from that reservoir and yet some citizens are least concerned about it. There are always solutions to practice a culture, a religion, a belief without harming nature. We really need to call out actions of such citizens. They don't represent a society which worships nature equally. #Hyderabad #GaneshFestival2026
While farmers in rural Telangana are fighting for water for their crops, a different kind of water war is unfolding in Hyderabad. Members of Ganesh Utsava Samiti broke down the barricades put up by the government to stop Nimajjanam in Hussain Sagar. The honourable High Court of Telangana directed the government to ensure that no idol immersion can happen at Tank Bund, Hyderabad. Telangana High Court in 2023 gave directions making it clear that PoP (plaster of paris)Ganesh idols should not be immersed in Hussain Sagar or other water bodies within Hyderabad limits and no idol immersion can happen in Upper Tank Bund area. There are alternative arrangements for idol immersion in the city - but who cares about environment.
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Simplicity is in the air!!! We read somewhere the Oneway around KBR was our Honourable CM’s simple idea!! This is great!! We do hope he has another simple idea to restore the lost greenery for this experiment and another simple idea to avoid this new flyover as that too is not required.. We need simple ideas to ensure #KBR is protected for ever.
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Not an inch of unscientific development in the eco-sensitive zone ( 25-35 m) of KBR National Park. #SaveKBR #Hyderabad
Almost two years after sanctioning one of its flagship infrastructure projects, the Telangana govt has scrapped the KBR Park corridor plan involving 14 flyovers and underpasses. @timesofindia @TOICitiesNews @sunnybaski Read more: timesofindia.indiatimes.com/…
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As you said let CM @revanth_anumula implement another "Simple Idea" - Scrap unscientific H-Citi flyovers around KBR National Park and invite Real experts to solve Hyderabad Traffic Woes #SaveKBR #Hyderabad
Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy’s simple idea of introducing one-way traffic around #KBR Park appears to have done what years of discussions, plans and proposals struggled to achieve — ease one of #Hyderabad’s most notorious traffic bottlenecks. For decades, motorists travelling through #JubileeHills, #BanjaraHills, #FilmNagar and the #KBRPark stretch have endured crawling traffic and frustrating peak-hour jams. Now, commuters are experiencing smoother movement — and many motorists are openly praising *mCM Revanth Reddy for thinking beyond the conventional approach of building another flyover or underpass. The change is also fuelling a larger debate: Do we really need to spend thousands of crores on a network of flyovers and underpasses around KBR Park if a smarter traffic-management solution can deliver results? This is what governance should be about — solving problems with ideas before reaching for concrete. Instead of immediately digging, building and spending thousands of crores, the #RevanthReddy government has shown that better traffic planning can sometimes achieve what massive infrastructure projects cannot. And perhaps the biggest takeaway from KBR Park is this: Not every traffic problem needs a flyover. Sometimes, all it needs is a Chief Minister willing to think differently.🚦
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What's happening with Hyderabad? From KBR National Park, Kancha Gachibowli to once a pristine heritage lake Durgam Cheruvu, everything's survival is put under threat in the name of Development. @revanth_anumula @TelanganaCMO listen to citizens, for once. #SaveKBR #Hyderabad
🚨 The current condition of Hyderabad’s famous Durgam Cheruvu. 🙏
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One-way traffic around KBR has proved what Hyderabadis have been saying for the past 10 years: when scientific and practical solutions exist to ease traffic congestion, why spend thousands of crores of taxpayers' money on disastrous and unscientific flyovers around KBR National Park—ultimately choking the park in the process? The H-CITI flyovers around KBR increasingly appear to be a case of forced, unscientific development at the cost of ecological destruction. @TelanganaCMO @revanth_anumula seriously need to reflect on these decisions and consult the right kind of experts. We, as citizens, are ready to suggest and discuss better alternatives to flyovers around KBR with the government—if given an opportunity. (1/2) #SaveKBR #Hyderabad #India
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❗️Update ❗️ Save KBR case may be heard in the Supreme Court today within the next 1 hour. Watch the proceedings here sci-vc.webex.com/meet/court0… Case No. SLP(C) NO. 17054/2026 - KAAJAL MAHESHWARI Vs. THE STATE OF TELANGANA is listed on 24-08-26 in Court No. 3 as Item No. 30 subject to order for the day. - SUPREME COURT OF INDIA #SaveKBR #Hyderabad
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Click on the link now. Our case might be heard in the next few minutes.
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The case got adjourned
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No correctional steps have been initiated by the authorities, despite bringing the lacunae up. Pedestrians and bus passengers continue to be ignored.
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I don’t see a single cyclist in either video. But we are supposed to believe that cycling advocates are impressed🤷🏻‍♀️ @CitizensForHyd
KBR’s one-way plan impresses cycling and pedestrian advocates The Hyderabad Traffic Police have started a new one-way traffic around KBR National Park. Many cycling and walking advocates say this is one of the best-planned efforts in the city's history. Police officers are stationed every 100 to 200 meters to guide drivers, pedestrians, and cyclists. #KBR #KBRonewaytraffic #HCITIproject
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Thank you for consistently speaking up for the environment, @RahulGandhi. Can you also ask the @INCIndia governments in Telangana and Karnataka to walk the talk. Destroying mature trees/ national parks for road projects isn’t sustainable or necessary.
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Citizens are asking @CPHydCity One way traffic all around Hyderabad ignores pedestrians, patients, small time employees, women, elderly and children, both in conception and design. @CitizensForHyd @FFF_Hyderabad @CommissionrGHMC @HMDA_Gov
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