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Metro to avoid religious places
The realignment of Metro Rail took another step forward with Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao holding a high-level meeting at Secretariat on Tuesday. KCR insisted that the Metro route should not affect heritage and religious structures.
- CM insists that no religious structure should be affected
- MIM wants Metro to run along the Musi river
- Earlier, L&T agreed to make three alignments
Hyderabad: The realignment of Metro Rail took another step forward with Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao holding a high-level meeting at Secretariat on Tuesday. KCR insisted that the Metro route should not affect heritage and religious structures.
A statement from the Chief Minister’s Office said that the change in alignment necessitated in the Old City as the project in its present form would affect seven temples, including Akkanna Madanna temple, Jagdish temple, Bangaru Maisamma temple among others. Ancient structure Aza Khana-e-Zehra near Dar-ul-Shifa too would be affected besides 28 mosques and 1,000 houses. KCR insisted that the Metro route should be taken up from Badi Chowdi to Imliban without affecting the Women’s College in Koti. MIM floor leader Akbaruddin Owaisi, who attended the meeting, asked the developer to change the entire alignment of the Metro in the Old City to save religious structures. He suggested the route to go along the Musi river, Bahadurpura and Kalapathar towards Falaknuma. As per the original alignment, the Metro will pass through Dar-ul-Shifa, Mir Alam Mandi, Etebar Chowk, Moghalpura and other densely-populated and historic areas.
Earlier this year, the government suggested for realignment of the Metro Rail route to avoid the Martyrs’ Memorial in front of the Assembly and heritage structures in Sultan Bazar.
The meeting, attended by Rajiv Sharma, Chief Secreatary, Telangana, N V S Reddy, MD, Hyderabad Metro Rail (HMR), Ziauddin, CE, HMR and other senior officials, reviewed the realignment proposals. Then the Telangana government on Tuesday wrote a letter to Larsen & Toubro, the concessionaire of the project, regarding its decision on realignment.
Earlier this month the government issued a statement claiming that the developer agreed to the change in alignment and announced that it would bear the additional cost. The cost of the 72-km elevated Metro project in 2010 was Rs 14,132 crore and in September the concessionaire company said that the cost escalation was Rs 2,500 crore to Rs 3,000 crore due to inflation and other reasons. The project in three corridors is scheduled to be completed in 2017 and the first phase of 8-km stretch from Nagole to Mettuguda is likely to be operational in March next year.
Meanwhile, L&T Group Executive Chairman A M Naik has invited Chief Minister KCR to visit their state-of-the-art manufacturing facility at Hazira near Surat.
