Hyderabad Urban Development Authority

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The Hyderabad Urban Development Authority (HUDA) was created in 1975, vide an act of the Andhra Pradesh State Assembly. Its first Chairperrson was Sarojini Poula Reddy, a Congress Party Member of the State Assembly. The First Vice Chairman and chief executive officer, was Vasant Bawa, of the Indian Administrative Services.

This statutory authority is charged with the acquisition, planning and development of urban facilities and infrastructure throughout Andhra Pradesh, with powers to delineate urban areas and to set up development authorities in these areas.

The HUDA's first activities were in the Hyderabad metropolotan area. In early 1976 the Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT) from Ahmedabad was engaged to prepared a zonal plan, and Christopher Charles Benninger was engaged to prepare a low income township at Yusafgudha, which included more than 2000 "growing houses" on plots ranging from two hundred to one thousand square feet. The idea was to provide a hygenic wet core for each house, a plinth and to allow the participants to construct their won homes. Paved footpaths, street lighting, water supply and sewerage were provided. Participants werre extended low interest loans through the Housing and Urban Development Corporation (HUDCO), a central development finance agency.

The Chief Planner of HUDA is Anant Bhide, a professional architect and urban planner.