FILE G · GLOSSARY · Tenure & rights
FTL
Also: Full Tank Level
MEANING
The maximum water-spread level of a tank — the line inside which no construction may lawfully stand.
FTL is identified by Irrigation from tank memoirs, village maps and survey data, verified against survey numbers by the revenue survey wing, then notified — preliminary notification, thirty days of objections, final notification and pillars. Most Hyderabad-area lakes are still only preliminarily notified, which is where much of the litigation lives; any parcel can be checked on the HMDA lakes portal.
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