Hyderabad: While Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao's Rs 40-crore camp office-cum-residence, being built on a nine-acre plot in Begumpet, is getting ready for Dasara, four villas, each costing Rs 1.5 crore, are being built for the Chief Secretary, Director General of Police, city police commissioner and Legislature Secretary, next door.
The new quarters are being constructed as the Chief Minister wants key officers to reach him within five minutes in case of emergency meetings. The old IAS quarters in Punjagutta were demolished to pave way for construction of these villas.
The 5,000-sq. ft villas, being built on 500 sq. yard plots, are expected to be occupied by the officers by Sankranti next year. As many as 10 residential quarters meant for IAS and IPS officials and 24 for office helps located at the Officers Colony in Punjagutta were demolished.
These quarters were located behind the Chief Minister’s camp office.
Mr Chandrasekhar Rao has been functioning from his camp office in Begumpet since January 2015 after announcing that Secretariat buildings had “dangerous vaastu defects”.
He has visited his office at the Secretariat rarely, mainly for Cabinet meetings.
The existing camp office has no spacious meeting hall or parking facility for visitors, due to which the Chief Minister is forced to conduct meetings either at MCRHRDI, Jubilee Hills or in a private hotel.
The Chief Minister decided to construct a “vaastu compliant” camp office on nine acres with big meeting halls, auditoria, parking lots and other facilities adjacent to the existing camp office and had conducted the bhumi puja on Ugadi this year and had ordered construction of villas for top officials next door.
