Encroachment of GHMC’s parks, play grounds, open spaces and other properties in Hyderabad to be mapped

GHMC survey to reveal encroachments of its parks, play grounds, open spaces, buildings and other properties in Hyderabad. It sought proposals for mapping and digitizing immovable assets in specific zones.

A survey to be undertaken by the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is all set to reveal the extent of encroachments into its layout open spaces, play grounds, parks, and other properties across the city. Major part of the open spaces have been encroached by the colony residents’ welfare associations at several locations for construction of community halls and senior citizens’ centres.

As the first step towards mapping its assets in the city, GHMC has published a ‘Request for Proposals’ (RFP) on Wednesday (April 9, 2025), towards survey of its immovable assets in L.B. Nagar and Kukatpally zones.

The immovable assets including layout open spaces, parks, play grounds, municipal markets, shops, office buildings, community halls, municipal lands, slaughter houses, dumping yards will have to be surveyed, digitised and geo-referenced, the RFP document specified.

The scope of work includes preparation of profile of each and every immovable property, preparation of inventory, and geo-referencing, apart from development of GIS/software application for monitoring the properties.

The selected firms should carry out a detailed physical survey using Differential GPS, to collect the boundary measurements and extent of the property, physical features of the property, building footprints within the property, and surrounding features such as abutting roads, utility lines, buildings and others.

Real world coordinates of each corner of the property should be collected, and detailed plans should be prepared to a scale of 1:500, with boundary measurements and extent. Photographs should be taken of the property covering frontage, sides and inside, according to the RFP.

Details such as circle number name, layout name, number, extent of open space as per layout and on the ground, door numbers, locality, village, mandal and district names, usage of the building, built up area, extent of encroachment of open spaces, nature of encroachment, and others should be collected as part of the survey, as per the RFP document.