KCR to inaugurate Balkampet link road

The link road between the Fathenagar bridge and Balkampet would be soon inaugurated by K Chandrasekhar Rao, Chief Minister of Telangana, informed GHMC Commissioner Somesh Kumar . The civic chief along with engineer-in-chief and other officials inspected the works and expressed his satisfaction over its completion.

He said the 1.41-km-long and four-lane link road was constructed at a cost of Rs 45 crore. The work, taken up in October 2007, was delayed due to stiff resistance from property owners to acquisition of lands, delay in shifting utilities like electrical towers, high and low tension lines, water and sewerage lines. The GHMC has taken it as a challenge and completed the work on war- footing in the past three months.

The road reduces the travel distance by 2 km from Kukatpally, Balanagar, Fathenagar and Balkampet to Secunderabad and vice-versa. It will benefit the residents of Brahmanvadi, Begumpet, Nature Cure Hospital area, Indira Gandhi Puram and Renuka Nagar and provides connectivity to Balkampet, Brindavan Colony and Fathenagar.

It reduces traffic congestion on NH-9 between Ameerpet and Sanathnagar or Kukatpally and on SP Road between Rajiv Circle and Greenlands flyover. In the next 30 years, the link road will serve 60,000 vehicles per day and, as a consequence, traffic on the Begumpet flyover will reduce by 20 per cent.