Gajularamaram International Bus Terminal Construction to Start in 3 Months: CM

Hyderabad: Ahead of the city municipal polls, Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy announced that works of the international bus terminal at Gajularamaram at 100 acres will start in three months.

The announcement was made on Monday after laying the foundation stone for Cyberabad municipal corporation (CMC) head office building and other development works in the corporation’s jurisdiction that will be built at a cost of Rs 1674.74 crore.

The Hyderabad Metro Rail that presently ends at Raidurgam, will be extended to Neopolis in Kokapet, asserted the Chief Minister.

Addressing a public meeting after laying the foundation stone, he said that 60 per dent of state IT exports from Cyberabad and 16.77 per cent of India’s IT exports happen from this area.

The Chief Minister said that he will further develop the areas in CMC. He compared Cyberabad to Silicon Valley in the USA and said that boasting about a ‘Global City’ is not enough but the development must actually align with that vision and the state government has started doing it.

The Chief Minister affirmed that the state government would focus only on development in the city and the state in the next 24 months rising above politics.

He said that Delhi was facing a pollution problem, Mumbai was struggling due to urban flooding, Bengaluru, Chennai with traffic woes and Kolkata with law-and-order issues. Following this, an expert panel was formed and taking cues from these cities, Telangana-Rising-2047 was formulated.

“We created three corporations to cater to the future needs of the expanding city and defined boundaries to ensure coordination between the police and municipal departments. Let us develop our city rising above political agendas,” he said.

Under the master plan, the state government constructed one lakh low-income group and middle-income group houses in the city limits.

“On the lines of ‘Rajiv Gruhakalpa’ scheme, the state government will provide housing for people in their present residing places. Government is formulating plans to reclaim government lands from encroachers and build homes for the poor,” said Revanth Reddy.

The Chief Minister also said that, the present three Assembly constituencies — Serilingampally, Quthbullapur and Kukatpally — together could be reorganised into around 10 Assembly constituencies and the leaders need not worry about their B-forms and opportunities.