Suchitra to Kompally Highway Has Myriad Faulty Designs: Experts

Hyderabad: The Hyderabad to Nagpur national highway expansion works on the six-lane Suchitra-Kompally elevated corridor are not only progressing at a snail’s pace but even the height of the storm water drain is taller that the main road. Many experts have said that this was absolutely against the very basics of civil engineering.

Incidentally, works on the project that began in 2022 were to be completed by the end of this month.

The project on the city’s northern corridor is endeavoured to decongest traffic in the area that has seen a spike in real estate and mushrooming of several residential colonies.

Today, the roads bear a shabby appearance. Stone granules and sand that lie scattered on the road are leading to accidents and skidding.

As there are several colonies and educational institutes on the stretch, pedestrian movement is also at risk, especially near the MLC colony. Commuters are in danger of getting hit by speeding vehicles as here is no barricading, whatsoever. It is ditto at Dhoolapally cross roads and Devender Nagar.

M. Surender Singh, a civil engineer and central government empaneled contractor, says “Storm water drain should always be below the ground level or equal to the road. If it is above the ground level, there is the risk of water stagnation on the roads. The authorities should immediately take action and make amends.”

The road development working at a cost of Rs 492 crore is expected to traffic around Suchitra junction, Dairy farm junction, Cine Planet, Jeedimetla and Kompally junction and Doolapally junction.

According to Srinivas Rao, the project director from the engineering department of national highways, “Storm water drain is designed to serve as a drain-cum-footpath facility as per IRC codal provisions. The proposals include three flyovers. Two of them are likely to be completed by June next and the third flyover six months later in December.”