its new form the tragedy in our country is that the public is not credited with having the brains to choose how we wish to develop it then covered an area of 508 square km in february this year vuda put out ads in the newspapers asking for suggestions from the public on how to improve amenities in places such as vuda park kailasagiri thotlakonda and tenneti park this structure envisages the advantage of rapid decision making they were to acquire lands from the owners develop the lands with roads buildings water supply and sewerage and then sell the lands and buildings at an affordable price to the public every time the government was short of funds which was quite frequently they would sell off some land and raise money the writer is an environmentalist and a social commentator evolution of life went from a few cells to small creatures to dinosaurs but then we all know what happened to those gargantuan creatures for several years during their darkest and most powerful days almost every interaction between the urban body and the public seeking approvals would involve some underhand dealings how easily vuda rolled off the tongue every project suffers from cost overruns vee em dee ay many remember the new layouts with rows upon rows of new homes that came up in areas such as seethamadhara and tpt colony impact on agriculture in the early 1980s in the eyes of the public vuda started acquiring a sinister character history has taught us that even great empires have collapsed because they got spread too thin as they expanded but this is not true for vuda common sense should indicate that a number of smaller nimbler organizations with good citizen support will work best but those calling the shots think otherwise vizags public responded enthusiastically but though six months have elapsed vuda has neither acknowledged nor had the opportunity to talk to any member of the public about it old timers remember that the tpt had a fair reputation for developing new areas and building reasonably priced housing targeted at different section of buyers termed as low income group lig middle income group mig and high income group hig it sounded much like that wonderful snack with a hole in the middle and a loyal partner of the humble idly fresh produce had to come from further away pushing the prices up genesis vuda started out as the town planning trust way back in 1962 is bigger really better gosh there is no easy way to say it we must get accustomed to say it alphabet wise but the fact is that there has hardly been any change in almost four decades and the villages are a horrible mess to this day farmers stopped developing land for agriculture no one knows why these projects were taken up who asked for it who will benefit from it and whether something else was more important the government plays a role of a facilitator