Hyderabad Municipal Administration and Urban Development department a month ago issued orders exempting Swarna Bharat trust from paying various charges. However, the order was not made public for unspecified reasons. NDA’s vice-presidential candidate M Venkaiah Naidu’s daughter Deepa Venkat runs the social service organisation which is based out of Nellore.

As per the reports in The Hindu, the order states that the trust has been exempted from payment of a total of Rs 2,20,76,922.38 to HMDA towards developmental charges for total site area, proportionate layout charges, open space charges and compounding charges, for building in an extent of 36,143.5 square metres at Muchintal village of Shamshabad district. Post the exemption the trust has to pay Rs. 26 lakh.

The order reportedly cites a letter written by the HMDA commissioner T.Chiranjeevulu seeking clarity as there was no such provision for exemptions in the HMDA Act, 2008.

Prior to giving the orders on June20, Deepa appealed to the Telangana government in March, requesting waiver of development charges for total site area. The Managing Turstee mentioned that they will pay development charges for built-up area, publication charges, external betterment charges and processing charges.