Date:09/09/2006 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2006/09/09/stories/2006090903350200.htm

Andhra Pradesh - Hyderabad

Plan to develop Ananthagiri Hills into tourist resort

Special Correspondent

Development to be complementary to Anantha Padmanabha Swamy temple; TB sanatorium not to be disturbed

Global tenders to be issued for hotels, cottages
75 p.c. of Buddha Vanam project completed

Museum at venue to be mainstay of project

HYDERABAD: Tourism Minister J. Geetha Reddy has announced a plan to develop the Ananthagiri Hills near Vikarabad in Ranga Reddy district as a tourist resort but connected to Anantha Padmanabha Swamy temple on the hilltop. The development would be complementary to the temple and it would not disturb the TB sanatorium existing on the hills. Global tenders would be issued shortly to construct hotels, eateries and cottages on the 230 acres of land set aside on the hills for the Tourism Department.

The Ananthagiri Hills area is where Osmansagar and Himayathsagar originate and is some 100 km from Hyderabad and hardly 10 km from Vikarabad.