CM KCR will lay the foundation stone for building to house Anees-ul-Ghurba

Chief Minister, K Chandrashekhar Rao will lay the foundation stone for the Rs 20 crore multi-storied building to house Anees-ul-Ghurba, an orphanage for Muslim children, on Sunday before he proceeds to Lal Bahadur Stadium to participate in the annual ‘Dawaat-e-Iftar’ hosted by him for Muslim community.

Syed Omer Jaleel, special secretary, Minority Welfare Department told that the building would be coming up on a 4,000 square yards of land.“The Chief Minister allotted a parcel of land measuring around one acre behind the existing orphanage. The land has been cleared and the foundation stone will be laid on Sunday,” the special secretary said.

Anees ul Ghurba is now run from a small premises opposite the Nampally Ek Minar Masjid. “We are planning to construct a seven-storied building on one acre of land. It will be equipped with best of



facilities,” he said.

The department plans to lease out the first two floors of the complex to commercial establishments. “This way, we will be getting revenue to manage the expenditure of the orphanage. At the same time, there is heavy traffic movement and the children will get disturbed by noise pollution if the ground or first floor is allotted to them,” the official explained.

The department will give preference to children whose parents had died. “We will provide them the best education,” he said.The officials plan to tie-up with the Telangana Minorities Residential Educational Institutions Society (TMREIS) to provide better education to the children.

The orphanage was set up in 1921 by a medical practitioner Hakeem Khaja Badruddin and had received grants from Mir Osman Ali Kha, the seventh Nizam.