Hyderabad, May 18 -- The Save Musi Movement (SMM) has described the Telangana government's official river embankment blueprint as a hydraulic bomb, "not intended to save the river, but to build a multi-billion real-estate corridor disguised as a park."

Addressing the media in Hyderabad on Monday, May 18, the Save Musi Movement activists demanded an immediate freezing all active funds, including the recently released Rs 375 crore, one part of the total Rs 1,500 crore budget allocation for the first phase of the Musi Riverfront Development Project.

They argued that spending hundreds of crores of taxpayer money while keeping the actual blueprints "hidden behind the administrative veil of GO 921" was an attempt to bypass the mandatory Socia...