Mega Infra Projects in Bharat Future City Planned

Hyderabad: With the Bharat Future City, located in Future City Development Authority (FCDA) area, all set to be developed as India’s first Net-Zero Greenfield Smart City, dozens of works have been proposed and are underway by various state government departments.

Water sensitive urban design and practices, greenfield streets networks, 158 km water supply infrastructure along the Outer Ring Road (ORR) are a few of its salient features.

The state government is also establishing a unified urban observatory and digital twin framework across all Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) to enable seamless inter-agency data sharing, 3D city modeling, and sensor-integrated simulations for traffic, flood resilience, and land-use planning.

To translate this vision, the state is structured around three economic regions that define how growth, infrastructure, and opportunities will be distributed. They are Core Urban Region Economy (CURE), Peri-Urban Region Economy (PURE) and Rural Agri Region Economy (RARE).

As a part of this visions, establishing a clear, high- capacity radial road network from the Inner Ring Road (IRR) to the ORR will be taken up in addition to closing missing links and streets hierarchy.

Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Corridors with rated and Future-Ready Transit Network will also be developed. The plan prioritises a common mobility card, unified information apps, transit priority signals, and parking reforms. The focus will be on high-demand bus corridors in IT and industrial areas, as well as airport link spines.

Finally, the network will be future-proofed with Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) systems, Urban Air Mobility (UAM)/electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) readiness, and a comprehensive road asset management programme.

In addition to this, a citywide walking and cycling programme will be in place. As part of this project, 1,000 km of walking and cycling corridors, foot over bridges (FoBs), skywalks, continuous footpaths, protected cycle tracks, safe crossings, and end-of-trip facilities will be developed.

The water-sensitive urban design and practices of the Future City includes, restoration of water bodies, stormwater management for flood control and ground water recharge.

This will be integrated with rainwater harvesting solutions, high infiltration/permeable landscapes, rain gardens, rainwater harvesting, permeable streets, bioswales, detention/retention, cloudburst routes and storage. The green streets network, which will be 1,500 km, will pass through urban forest blocks and street canopy, permeable sidewalks, bioswales, shade trees, and heat-safe crossings.

The state is implementing a circular water grid ensuring round the clock water supply and 100 per cent sewage recycling. Lakes protection programme covering over 2,000 lakes, greenfield townships programme by building 10 compact, net-zero compliant, transit-oriented townships to promote walk-to-work concept and affordable housing will also be taken up.