NTR Gardens is a small public, urban park of 15 hectares (36 acres) adjacent to Hussain Sagar lake in Hyderabad, where earlier a thermal power station building stood until 1995.
[4] It was planned to further expand this area, which has since been referred to as NTR Gardens, by constructing a museum about N. T. Rama Rao.
They contended that regulations showed the area around the lake as a recreation zone which must be kept away from all constructions for commercial or residential purposes.
[7] A media report suggested that according to the 1980 HUDA Master Plan, the area where the NTR Gardens are located originally was a water body, but a gazetted notification in 1994 could allow such construction activities.
[9][10] Besides a variety of plants, the gardens also house a souvenir complex, a visitors train, restaurants and a waterfall.