| Old Neredmet | |
| Pushpin Map: | India Telangana#India |
| Pushpin Label Position: | right |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Telangana, India |
| Coordinates: | 17.4717°N 78.5364°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Type2: | District |
| Subdivision Type3: | Mandal |
| Subdivision Type4: | City |
| Subdivision Type5: | Ward, Lakes |
| Subdivision Type6: | Police station |
| Subdivision Name1: | Telangana |
| Subdivision Name2: | Medchal-Malkajgiri |
| Subdivision Name4: | Hyderabad |
| Established Title: | Founded |
| Established Date: | 1578 AD |
| Governing Body: | GHMC, Malkajgiri |
| Unit Pref: | Metric |
| Area Total Km2: | 8.5 |
| Elevation M: | 1536 |
| Population Total: | 1,27,557 |
| Population As Of: | Census 2009 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Demographics Type1: | Languages |
| Demographics1 Title1: | Official |
| Timezone1: | IST |
| Utc Offset1: | +5:30 |
| Postal Code: | 500056 |
| Blank1 Name Sec1: | Lok Sabha constituency |
| Blank1 Info Sec1: | Malkajgiri |
| Demographics1 Info1: | Telugu, Urdu |
| Blank2 Name Sec1: | Vidhan Sabha constituency |
| Blank2 Info Sec1: | Malkajgiri |
| Blank3 Name Sec1: | Planning agency |
| Blank3 Info Sec1: | GHMC |
Old Neredmet is a locality and also origin of Neredmet, it also has its own fort, walls, watch tower ruins at Neredmet Gadi (Fort).The neighbourhood of Hyderabad city is in the Indian state of Telangana. It is located in Malkajgiri mandal in Medchal-Malkajgiri district of the state. Ward No. 140- Malkajgiri (Half). Neredmet Grama Bodrai (built before 1880s) is at Old Neredmet Village, Neredmet Moodu Gullu is the landmark for Old Neredmet Area.
It was founded in 1578 AD, But population increased from development of RK Puram lake also known as (Munkidigan Cheruvu). Old Neredmet Village has its own fort, walls, watch tower ruins, at Neredmet Gaddi (Fort).
By the early 1800s, the Electronics and Mechanical Engineering (EME), which is presently the Military College of Electronics and Mechanical Engineering (MCEME), had been set up at Trimulgherry. The engineers and electricians who worked here needed water, so RK Puram Lake was commissioned by the Nizam and dug up in the mid-1800s, occupying a space of around 100 acres.[1]
Speaking to TNM, Murali Chemuturi, a writer and long-time resident of the area, narrates, “Mudfort, which is now just the name of an area, was the first place where the East India Company built its garrison. Over time, the garrison expanded, and soon it had spread all the way up to Bolaram.”
Though it is now a populated area in the city, this was the time that people first settled in then Neredmet village.
“The engineers and electricians who worked there needed two main services. First, they had dry toilets and needed someone for manual scavenging, and secondly, they needed milk and food. For the first, they hired some Scheduled Caste people from Tamil Nadu and for the second purpose, they hired Yadavs (a cattle-breeding caste), from Uttar Pradesh,” Murali says.
“The two groups were housed nearby, and while Neredmet became the villageRK Puram was the hamlet where the SC persons stayed,” he adds.
All three of these groups needed water, so the RK Puram Lake was commissioned by the Nizam and dug up in the mid-1800s, occupying a space of around 100 acres.
After the sepoy mutiny in 1857, the British continued to expand aggressively, and the area's population began to grow.
The lake remained a major source of drinking water and largely clean, until the late 1960s, when the Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL) was established.
“There was no shortage of water, which is why the old houses in RK Puram have no well or borewell. In 1965, Sainik Nagar was the first colony to be allotted. Despite this, the lake remained clean, as the colony remained downstream of the lake,” says Murali.
“After ECIL came up, the politicians of the time laid a road right through the lake, to create a shortcut. In 1976, the lake flooded the road, following which it was raised by 5 feet by the gram panchayat with the help of mud and stones,” he adds.
According to locals, this was when a large portion of the lake was killed, as the water that was cut off from the rest of the lake, was eventually dumped with debris and flattened.
“However, it was only in the mid-80s that things started going downhill, as several colonies like GK Colony, Sri Colony, Bank Colony and Bhagat Singh Nagar were built upstream, and untreated sewage started flowing directly into the lake,” Murali says.
The Neredmet Village has three villages within its main village. They are Ramakrishnapuram Hamlet, Safilgudem Hamlet & Neredmet Main Village.
Ramakrishapuram is a second settlement & Safilgudem third Settlement of Neredmet Village.
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