hyderabad there is an urgent need to make the musi river a part of the sustainable development goals sdg framework of both the central and state governments and set up a dedicated musi river basin authority to ensure integrated governancethis was part of an action plan mooted by experts and activists at a seminar on making river musi an example conducted on saturday by the city college hyderabad along with save rivers an environmental group and grama vikas bharat foundation experts said the musi beautification should not be reduced to a mere real estate project by constructing fountains near the river they said there should not be any concrete construction near the river at all and demanded that the authorities take strict action against those encroaching on the riverthe musi river restoration should be a conservation project with ecological envi ronmental social and economic objectives integrated into it said d narasimha reddy advisor save riversciting examples of the cheonggyecheon restoration project in seoul south korea and river thames they urged the authorities not to decrease the riverbed in the name of beautification river restoration projects ensure wider space for rivers to flow and none of these projects reduced the width of the river said scientist indrasena t reddy activists also said animal waste is dumped at puranapulthere is a meat market in puranapul and vendors throw waste into the musi said old city resident roop darak