Advisor to the Government of Telangana (SC, ST, BC & Minorities) Mohammed Ali Shabbir announced that the Congress Government would complete all the projects and initiatives that were kept pending by the previous BRS regime to ensure fast-paced growth of SC, ST, BC and minorities in Telangana.
Shabbir Ali was speaking to media persons after conducting a review meeting with the officials of the Minorities Welfare Department, Telangana State Wakf Board and Haj Committee at the Haj House, Nampally on Wednesday.
He said that the ‘Garden View Wakf Mall’, which has been pending for the last 17 years, would be completed soon. He informed that as the then Minorities Welfare Minister in the Dr YS Rajasekhara Reddy Government in 2005, he was instrumental in purchasing two land parcels on either side of the Haj House by spending over Rs 22 crore.
The foundation for the ‘Garden View Wakf Mall’ was laid on February 22, 2009, and construction was started. The structure of seven floors and two cellars was completed during the Congress regime. However, Shabbir Ali said that the previous BRS Government did not touch the project for almost 10 years. Consequently, the under-construction building has been lying idle despite so much investment.
