Hyderabad: Information technology minister K.T. Rama Rao on Sunday said the Telangana state government would seek funds from the Union government to implement a project to make the city’s roads signal-free for smooth flow of traffic. He said the government would construct multi-level flyovers at 54 junctions in Hyderabad in order to prevent traffic jams under the Strategic Roads Development Project, which would be implemented at an estimated cost of Rs 20,000 crore.
The minister along with Union minister Bandaru Dattatreya, Deputy Chief Minister Mahmood Ali, and other state ministers laid the foundation stones for different facets of the project at KBR Park, Banjara Hills Road No. 2, Kukatpally and other places. Mr Rama Rao said that the government would develop the city as an ideal capital. “In order to build Hyderabad as a global city, we have started the first phase of the SRDP. Apart from construction of multi-level flyovers under the project, the government will also construct skyways on the outskirts of the city.” Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao has already planned to construct two more reservoirs in the city at an estimated cost of Rs 7,500 crore with financial support from the ILFS, he said.
The minister said the government had already distributed over 42 lakh dust bins and 2,000 auto-trolleys for waste management in the city. “We have been constructing night shelters for beggars, double bed-room flats for poor people and community function halls in colonies,” he said. Mr Dattatreya said that he would try to bring more funds from the Central to develop the city. “We will establish craft and vocational training centres for women under Central schemes in the Khairatabad Assembly segment,” he said.
State ministers Nayini Narsimha Reddy, Talasani Srinivas Yadav, T. Padma Rao, MPs K. Kesava Rao, K. Visweswara Reddy, MLCs Bhupal Reddy, Bhanu Prasada Rao, MLA Chintala Ramachandra Reddy, GHMC commissioner Dr B. Janaradan Reddy and others took part in the programmes. Mr Dattatreya along with Mr Mahmood Ali and Mr Rama Rao would lay the foundation stone for the construction of double bedroom flats at Indiranagar under Khairatabad Assembly segment on Monday. They will inaugurate work on the multi-purpose sports complex at Sanatnagar that is being built at an estimated cost of Rs 5 crore.
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