12 slums to get new look under 'Cities Alliance'

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, AUG. 24. The `Cities Alliance', a global partnership aimed at achieving the promise of well-managed cities, took off here on Thursday. Under the alliance, a partnership of the UNCHS (Habitat) and the World Bank, 12 slums would be developed at a cost of over Rs. 3 crores in the first phase of the programme.

Roads, water supply, drains, community halls, reading rooms, playgrounds and streetlights would be provided in these slums, according to the MCH Commissioner, Dr. P.K. Mohanty. He told presspersons here today after a visit by the City-level Coordination Committee that the facilities would form part of the water and sanitation urban management programme. The slums are Yousuf Bazar, Moosarambagh, Old Feelkhana, Devibagh, Bapunagar, Muggudeselu, Zeebabagh, Veernagar, Swarajnagar, Shastrinagar and Bhagavanthpur.

Committee members inspected road-widening works adjacent to the Narayanguda flyover, at Koti junction, Charminar and Bathkammakunta. Dr. Mohanty said 29 roads would be widened before October. They are Gowlipura-Chandrayangutta, Lal Darwaza- Yakutpura, Dabeerpura-Yakutpura nala, Amberpet lower causeway- Chaderghat high-level causeway parallel to the Musi river, Chaderghat jail garden-Lalhazar hotel, Shad cafe-Puranapul Darwaza, Mohammedi cap market-New flyover Chaderghat bridge, Narayanguda distilleries road, Jamai Osmania ROB road, Ramnagar crossroads-Vidyanagar main road and Shankar Mutt-Shivam road.

Others are: Ashoknagar main road-Himayatnagar main road-Indira Park road, Asifnagar-Noble talkies junction, Vijyanagar colony- Asifnagar road, Langar Houz junction-Tippu Khan bridge, Panjagutta junction, Yashoda Hospital road, Nirankari Bhavan- Visveshwarayya statue, Meter Factory road, Somajiguda main road- Visveshwarayya statue, Premnagar road-Anandnagar, Jambagh road, Abids Taj Mahal-King Koti junction, St. Mary's road-Secunderabad railway station, Subash road, Begumpet main road, Distillery road, Street No. 9 Tarnaka and Karbala Maidan.

Messrs. Rajeshwar Tiwari, Hyderabad Collector, D. Jagannath Rao and Karikalvalaven, MCH Additional Commissioners, Syed Omar Jaleel, Officer on Special Duty, South Zone, M.V. Dinakar Prasad, DCP (Traffic), and C.V. Anand, DCP, East Zone, accompanied the MCH Commissioner.

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