Hyderabad, Nov. 5 -- The Future City Development Authority (FCDA) has told the National Green Tribunal (NGT) that it has not approved a single layout, township, building or development project in the Future City area, and that no proposal needing prior environmental clearance has even reached it.

According to The Times of India, the authority made the claim in a counter-affidavit filed before the NGT's Chennai bench, where it asked for the petition against the project to be dismissed. It called the allegations "baseless, misconceived, unsupported by facts and wholly untrue".

The petition was filed by environmentalist Donthi Narasimha Reddy, who alleged that the Telangana government had taken up the project without mandatory environmenta...