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Road-widening: tough task for GHMC
| Several religious structures to be shifted besides acquiring properties |
Coordination with other depts. for shifting power lines, water pipelines, etc.
R&B Department too has a big role to play as many roads come under it
DEVELOPMENT AT A COST: Huge trees like this one on the Mettuguda-Tarnaka stretch have been chopped for road-widening.
HYDERABAD: There are several hurdles for the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) to cross if it is to meet the stiff deadlines fixed by Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy to improve road network by widening in the next four to six months in the capital.
Other than religious structures and acquiring properties through the land acquisition route, the municipal corporation has to coordinate with other departments for shifting of utilities like power lines, water pipelines and so on. Besides, the Roads & Buildings Department too has a big role to play as many roads come under it.
Airport connectivityRegarding the airport connectivity roads, which were to be ready six months ago, the corporation has to acquire six more properties between Tarnaka and Uppal while 134 were demolished. From Owaisi Hospital to Chandrayangutta, it has acquired 123 of 124 properties with a school building remaining, likely to be demolished during the current vacation.
The town planning wing is yet to take over 23 properties between Chandrayangutta junction and Bandlaguda ‘Y’ junction and the stretch has to be handed over to R&B for laying road. Same goes for the road from Bandlaguda junction towards Aramghar junction where 43 properties are to be acquired before R&B takes over.
GHMC has made no bones of the fact that it has a tough task on hand in improving the inner ring road as several private properties, properties belonging to the Cantonment, educational institutions and religious structures are still to be taken over between Rail Nilayam and Tarnaka.
It has just managed to sign a truce pact with the railways and though it has set a two month target, that’s unlikely to be met.
Alternate roadThe alternate road for airport from Chandrayangutta via Barkas and onto Srisailam road too is being taken up by R&B but two religious properties have to be shifted and of the 128 private structures, demolition of just eight has been taken up. The Charminar-Falaknuma road too has to tackle 20 remaining private properties together with a few religious structures. Besides, the corporation has to take over close to 150 properties for other roads touching Lakdi-ka-pul, Jambagh and Himayatnagar. There are 120 properties on Punjagutta-Erragadda route alone and close to 100 for the Charminar Pedestrianisation Project -- all these excluding religious structures.
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