Hyderabad: Double trouble for the Telangana State government’s flagship Strategic Road Development Plan (SRDP). The trouble has come in the form of the proposed phase II detailed project report (DPR) of the Hyderabad Metro Rail Limited. The DPR proposed by HMRL would affect the construction of over five flyovers in BHEL to Mehdipatnam route.
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) officials said that phase II alignment would also puncture the already constructed Tolichowki flyover. The Metro alignment would affect the P.V. Narasimha Rao Expressway, the longest elevated expressway in the country and will disturb the structural stability of all flyovers including biodiver-sity junction.
The GHMC had proposed to construct a six lane two-way flyover from Kondapur to ORR, flyover from Gachibowli Junction to Silpa Layout at an estimated cost of Rs 203.31 crore, flyover from Rethibowli junction to Nanalnagar, underpass at Nanalnagar at a cost of Rs 133.28 crore, 500-metre elevated corridor with a 45-metre width from the Biodiversity Park to the Raidurgam Police station at a cost of Rs 700 crore. The state government has also accorded administrative sanction, the civic body has finalised the DPRs, invited tenders and is about to invite tenders for a few others.
However, the surprise came from the metro authorities on Tuesday, when a HMRL official approached the corporation with the phase II DPR and said that the flyovers construction was obstructing the metro rail alignment.
The HMRL official requested the GHMC to change the proposal of all skyways and underpass coming in the way of Metro alignment.
The HMRL under Phase-II has proposed to take up other routes from BHEL-Lakdikapul corridor via Kondapur, Gachibowli, Shaikpet, Tolichowki, Mehidipa-tnam and to connect the gap between LB Nagar and Nagole, Falaknuma to Shamshabad airport.
A senior GHMC official on condition of anonymity said that the Metro alignments would hit the SRDP project, which had taken proper shape after fighting financial and land acquisition hurdles, very badly. The official said that HMRL phase II DPR would disturb the structural stability of all flyovers including Bio-Diversity and Khajaguda.
Explaining about the financial and other implications, if adjustments were made accor-ding to the HMRL alignment, the official said that the GHMC would have to face a financial burden of Rs 10,000 crore since it would have to acquire land in prime locations of the city and to reconstruct the destroyed structure. He said that even though the civic body accepted the HMRL’s proposal, it would have to bear the financial burden and cost of damage. HMRL authorities were unavailable for comment.
