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Visiting Charminar, a nightmare
For tourists and visitors from outside the state, Charminar and its surroundings will remain a difficult place to visit for at least two or three months more. Similarly, it would be a nightmare for regular traffic movement and for the locals too.
Charminar: For tourists and visitors from outside the state, Charminar and its surroundings will remain a difficult place to visit for at least two or three months more. Similarly, it would be a nightmare for regular traffic movement and for the locals too.
Following the Charminar Pedestrian Project (CPP) works, the buffering around the Charminar is going on and traffic police has diverted the traffic movement besides removing the fruit vendors, street vendors and hawkers from the area. Many tourists coming to visit Charminar are taking bad memories and feel annoyed after seeing the mess around the structure. Currently, the western side of the Charminar is dug up and work is in progress.
Tiles have been laid on the southern side and other sides during past three months however; the basement strengthening work is going on at the western side now. Diversion of traffic routes is not only affecting the movement of vehicles near Charminar but also across various junctions near and around it in old city. Pedestrianization works have slowed down the movement of traffic and is resulting in frequent jams in adjacent lanes.
Most of the tourists are refraining from experiencing to climb up the Charminar and are diverted to Chowmohalla Palace in Khilwat. Locals also expressed their dissatisfaction by the way traffic is being handled in old city. Some tourists said that it was so disappointing for them to see the mess around Charminar and they were not aware of the ongoing works here. Omprakash Anjani Kumar, from Odisha said that lack of space near Charminar was horrible of their visit to Hyderabad. He said that it was saddening to see repair and maintenance work going on at Charminar.
On the other hand, dozens of local vendors have been displaced since the start of pedestrianization project here. Stone tiles have been laid on the buffer zone (vehicle free zone) of Charminar resulting in a continuous chaotic atmosphere there.
Vendors complained that they were not properly rehabilitated and officials were not serious in this matter.
BY Mohammed Younus
