Hyderabad infrastructure plan to be grounded by June

Chief secretary Rajiv Sharma held a meeting with officials of the municipal administration department and the GHMC at the Secretariat on Saturday to finalise the locations where these projects need to be taken up first. Posh areas like Madhapur, Jubilee Hills, Banjara Hills and Gachibowli may get priority. Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao is keen to lay the foundation stone for at least four projects before he completes a year in office on June 2.

Officials have shortlisted nine projects that need to be taken up in the first phase at an estimated cost of Rs 1,611 crore. The government wants to launch works on four projects by June by calling global tenders. Initially, the work is likely to be launched at KBR Park, Banjara Hills, where a five-junction multi-level flyovers will be built. A multi-level spiral flyover with six lanes will be built at Jubilee Hills checkpost junction at an estimated cost of Rs 516 crore.

Two major corridors have been planned at Ayyappa Society, Madhapur, and the Bio-diversity Park at Gachibowli, costing Rs 28 crore and Rs 86 crore respectively.

Multi-level flyovers have been planned at Rasoolpura (Rs 64 crore), the LB Nagar-Byramalguda-Kamineni Hospital-Chitankunta checkpost (Rs 448 crore), traffic interchage at Uppal junction (Rs 247 crore) and a flyover-cum-underpass at Owaisi junction (Rs 63 crore).

A flyover was planned at Bahadurpura at an estimated cost of Rs 69 crore and Rs 90 crore was to be spent to develop the Rajiv Gandhi junction in Somajiguda. Officials have submitted detailed project reports for all these projects to the government. Recently, construction major Shapoorji Pallonji group chief Shapoorji Pallonji Mistry had met the CM and offered to invest Rs 20,000 crore to improve infrastructure and officials were asked to work out modalities.