there is hardly any progress on the project sadly when permission is given for colony layouts space for parks and greenery remains only on paper dr surya rao added when gvmc commissioner m v satyanarayana was apprised about the state of the public parks and the complaints of denizens he admitted to widespread encroachments on parks and urgent need for redevelopment of at least 50 of the city parks we have conducted a detailed survey and found that there is some amount of encroachment happening our team will look into it and keep encroachers away out of the 25 parks under our purview 12 need a major revamp we have sent proposals to the state government for sanction of rs 14 crore for the development of the parks and we expect the funds to be released soon he said according to him as far as the remaining parks are concerned the civic body has started erecting compound walls and renovating them for public use by dipping into its general funds we also have a ppp programme whereby if colony residents share 30 of the maintenance cost gvmc funds the remaining 70 expense currently 10 parks are being maintained jointly under this scheme stated the commissioner