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Rev up process, KCR tells babus
Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao asked the officials to speed up the proposal to extend the ongoing Metro Rail network till the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport.
Hyderabad: Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao asked the officials to speed up the proposal to extend the ongoing Metro Rail network till the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport.
The Chief Minister on Tuesday held a review meeting at Pragati Bhavan on the extension of Hyderabad International Airport and construction of the Airport City. He wanted terminal to be extended and a second runway to be constructed following increase in the rush of the passengers.
The Chief Minister said, “If the Metro Rail facility is up to the airport like in New Delhi, people will prefer travelling to the airport by the Metro Rail.” Chandrashekhar Rao instructed the officials to convene a meeting of the officials from the GMR, Hyderabad Metro Rail and L&T regarding this.
The Chief Minister suggested that since Hyderabad was fast becoming a venue for several international conferences and meetings, a convention centre to accommodate 12,000 people and exhibition centres should be constructed.
He said, for this, the State government would extend all support and assured that he himself would be present at the ground-breaking ceremony of the proposed Airport City to be developed with all facilities.
“The Airport City should enhance the brand image of Hyderabad city,” the Chief Minister said. The GMR representatives informed Chandrashekar Rao that the airport was getting 400 flights a day and every year 1,17,00,000 crore passengers were using the airport.
They said the growth rate before formation of the Telangana State was 7 percent and it reached 20.4 percent after the formation of the State and was expected to increase in the near future. The government would also take up widening the roads leading to the airport, providing sanitation, power supply, drainage and other related works.
On the occasion, GMR Group Chairman Grandhi Mallikarjuna Rao gave Rs 12.28 crore cheque to the Chief Minister towards the State government’s share of dividend (13 percent) from the earnings from the airport.
