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Seven flyovers to come up over Musi River
State government has decided to construct seven flyovers across the Musi River connecting east and west Outer Ring Road (ORR). The Musi River Front Development Corporation (MRDC) will spend Rs 30 crore for each flyover on an average and the estimated cost of the project will be Rs 210 crore.
​Hyderabad: State government has decided to construct seven flyovers across the Musi River connecting east and west Outer Ring Road (ORR). The Musi River Front Development Corporation (MRDC) will spend Rs 30 crore for each flyover on an average and the estimated cost of the project will be Rs 210 crore.
Highly placed sources in MRDC said that the Municipal Administration and Urban Development Minister K T Rama Rao had asked the officials to chalk out plans to construct seven sophisticated flyovers across the Musi River in order to increase the connectivity.
He asked the MRDC official to give a tentative list of locations where the flyovers would be constructed. Sources claimed that this decision by the government would increase the project cost from about Rs 2,900 crore to Rs 3,200 crore.
A senior MRDC official told The Hans India that MRDC would construct seven flyovers as a part of Musi River Front Development programme. He said that MRDC officials would make minor changes in the earlier plan in order to increase the connectivity in the city.
The proposed cost for the project will be around Rs 210 crore and it would increase based on the size and sophistication. He said that the private agency which would be hired for project should include seven flyovers in the plan. He said as proposed the project also includes berms, jogging tracks, cycling tracks, walkways, setting up of kiosks, foot over bridges, boating and green space across the stretch.
The official said that MRDC would spend Rs 1664.47 crore for 57.5 kilometre Musi (under river front development programme) and Rs 1,301.5 for 757 sq km of catchment area (under river conservation programme).
Besides this, officials also said that the MRDC would construct nine STPs at Attapur (which treat 70 million litres of sewer a day), Miralam (6 MLD), Nagole (140 MLD), Hayathnagar (24 MLD), Nallacheruvu (80 MLD), Nagarm (29 MLD), Amberpet (142 MLD), Fathenagar (30 MLD) and Quthbullapur (IDPL 59 MLD). Officials said the MRDC would construct rubbers dams in order to purify the river.
Meanwhile, MRDC will spend Rs 687.42 crore for upper and lower reach (which is in Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority's jurisdiction) river front development, Rs 977.05 crore for middle reach (which is in Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation limits)river front development and Hyderabad Metro Water Supply and Sewerage Board will spend Rs 1,301 crore in order construct nine STPs.
