New road adjoining Telangana Bhavan to ease traffic jams

Hyderabad: Growing traffic jams and congestion at Maharaj Agrasen circle on Road No. 10 in Banjara Hills will be soon be a thing of the past. Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao has directed Hyderabad Mayor Bonthu Ramamohan and GHMC officials to lay a new diversion road from the place abutting the compound wall of the Telangana Bhavan on Road No. 10, connecting Road No. 12, the eastern side of Jagannath temple.

There are frequent traffic jams at Agrasen Circle —  more so when the Jagannath temple celebrates festivals, or when there are meetings of the TRS, or visits by Mr Rao to the party headquarters.  

Mr Rao, who recently visited the party office to oversee renovation, laying of new gardens and painting, suggested to the Mayor that a diversion road abutting the party compound wall to Road No. 12 would considerably ease traffic going towards Road No. 12, Masab Tank, Lakdikapul and Mehdipatnam.  “Traffic coming from Basavataraka Hospital towards MLA Colony gets stuck at the Agrasen circle. The CM’s suggestion will certainly ease traffic going towards Road No. 12,” a TRS leader said.

The Integrated Command and Control Tower of the police department, comprising a 20-storey tower, two 16-storey towers and two other towers, will come up on seven acres of  land on Road No. 12 in Banjara Hills.

A gallery, besides a police museum with a 900-capacity auditorium, is also being constructed. The Shapoorji Pallonji Group bagged the contract. It is learnt the Chief Minister asked officials to shift the row of temporary sheds built to accommodate workers of the construction company, opposite Telangana Bhavan and the proposed new road.

In fact, the open space where the sheds were put up was a haven for peacocks, who used to fly from KBR park to the spot and vice versa, but they have stopped since the sheds were put up.