Hyderabad: The GHMC is learnt to have expressed its inability to execute the project of building alternative roads in the Secunderabad Cantonment area unless the state government pitches in and settles the land issue.
Assuming the minimum land price at Rs 10 crore per acre, the cost for acquiring 33 acres of Army land would be nearly Rs 330 crore. With road construction works, the cost of the project is estimated between Rs 450 crore and Rs 500 crore.
Understandably, the civic body would face a fund crunch if it has to pay for the land. It requested the government to intervene and allocate alternative land parcels to Army in lieu of the one given for construction of new roads.
While the government agreed, it is concerned with the condition of equal value for the exchange process to go ahead.
Defence officials said the provision of equal value was being implemented across the country. Special relaxation to the Telangana state government would lead to unnecessary problems because similar demands might crop up from other parts of the country, an official said.
