Telangana government plan to include Information Technology Investment Region
KCR wants the master plan to include the ITIR
By : DC Correspondent
Update: 2015-08-20 06:45 GMT
Hyderabad: The Telangana government is trying to put the Information Technology Investment Region (ITIR) project on the fast track by planning to revise the HMDA master plan yet again.
Earlier, the N. Kiran Kumar Reddy government had approved the HMDA master plan which was to be applicable till 2031. Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao wants the master plan to include the ITIR, which was to have its own master plan.
The Centre had approved the ITIR in September 2013. The first phase has to commence by 2018. Mr Rao has previously stated that the HMDA master plan was not in accordance with the Telangana government’s plan of developing Hyderabad into a global city.
The government has constituted a panel comprising of CMO principal secretary Narsing Rao, HMDA commissioner Shalini Mishra and MAUD principal secretary M.G. Gopal to redraft master plan. The officials along with urban planning experts held a two-day workshop on Wednesday.
IT minister K.T. Rama Rao, who is monitoring the progress of ITIR on a weekly basis asked officials to meet the 2018 deadline. The new master plan will draft land use plan for ITIR to be established in an area of 202 sq km (49,913 acres) in HMDA limits.