Hyderabad:The GHMC has prepared revised estimates for the steel bridge at Indira Park, one year after its inauguration. On Thursday, the standing committee approved the proposal to pay an additional ₹139 crore to M. Venkata Rao Infra Projects Pvt. Ltd., the agency that built the flyover. The agency had built the steel flyover between Indira Park and VST and it was inaugurated in March 2023.
The proposal of revised estimates was rejected twice earlier citing irregularities. According to the proposal approved on Thursday, the revised estimated cost of the steel bridge is ₹565 crore, excluding land acquisition. The proposal mentioned the `426 crore as the ‘original amount’, which was previously sanctioned by the state government to build the flyover.
When Deccan Chronicle spoke with the GHMC engineering projects wing officials, they said the ₹139 crore amount also included the revised estimates of another flyover that will be built in the same area. “I am not sure about the exact amount that will be transferred for the Indira Park-VST flyover. The ₹139 crore additional amount is for two projects and one is yet to start,” said an official.
Earlier too, when the same proposal was placed in the GHMC standing committee but was rejected, the officials of the engineering projects wing gave vague replies about the proposal that mandated an additional amount being transferred to this agency one year after inauguration. While an engineer in the GHMC head office said the money was an additional cost for utility shifting, a circle-level engineer said the reason for additional billing was for the nala works that were coming in flyover alignment.
The other major proposal approved by the standing committee on Thursday included study tours for all 150 corporators to Delhi, Agra and other cities in three phases, with 50 members in each group. A total of eight proposals were placed in the GHMC standing committee and among them, the proposal to set up a multi-level mechanised car and bike parking lot at Kasu Brahmananda Reddy National Park in Jubilee Hills was kept on hold.
The committee approved the Malligavad Foundation adopting Gurunath Cheruvu in Miyapur as a part of their corporate social responsibility. The committee also approved the spending of ₹9,88,41,234 towards hosting and maintaining 15 IT modules of GHMC at the Centre for Good Governance.
