Overview

• Ponnam Prabhakar met Defence Minister Rajnath Singh in Hyderabad and submitted a memorandum seeking expedited transfer of specific defence parcels for public use.
• The representation thanked the Ministry of Defence for deciding to spare certain lands and pressed for swift handover to advance mobility works such as elevated corridors and flyovers.
• The state flagged roughly ₹1,000 crore in pending user charges from the Secunderabad Cantonment and asked for timely clearance to support civic services in overlapping jurisdictions.
• The delegation requested steps to hold long-delayed elections to the Secunderabad Cantonment Board to restore local representation.
• Officials noted the Chief Minister’s earlier request for 98.20 acres for the Gandhi Sarovar project, with the broader land and governance requests awaiting central processing.