Hyderabad: The TS Secretariat is likely to be shifted to a premises in the neighbourhood to pave the way for reconstruction of the existing buildings to meet vaastu requirements. Official sources said that as per Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao’s directions, a new Secretariat complex would be built on the existing premises at a cost of Rs 200 crore.
The CM had gone on record that the existing Secretariat lacked good vaastu and planning. As such he plans to shift it to some other place. However, the plans have been changed and now, Mr Rao is in favour of building a new complex by demolishing the existing structures in a phased manner, starting from this Dasara.
The CMO and the offices of the CM’s aides will be the first to be moved to the Chief Minister’s under-construction camp office at Begumpet.
As far as the other offices are concerned, they will be moved to the Burgula Ramakrishna Rao Bhavan near the Tank Bund which is near the existing Secretariat from where they will function till the new complex is built. Officials said that the BRK Bhavan has about 2 lakh sq. ft. space available.
However, no decision has been taken with regard to demolition and reconstruction of a temple and masjid that exist in the Secretariat complex.
Chief Secretary Rajiv Sharma who is heading a high-power committee on building new Secretariat complex will begin a series of meetings to finalise various plans for shifting the existing offices as well as demolition of the structures.
