Promoting Hyderabad as a well-planned city, took a dig at other metros, saying that “Delhi is facing a pollution problem, Mumbai is struggling with floods, and Bengaluru, Chennai, and Kolkata are experiencing traffic woes”.
Reddy was speaking after laying the foundation stone for a building to house the newly created Cyberabad Municipal Corporation. He said that as rapidly expanded, the state government divided the city into three municipal corporations. “Let us develop our city by rising above political agendas,” he said.
The CM stated that the Hyderabad metropolitan region has been reorganised into the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), the Cyberabad Municipal Corporation, and the Malkajgiri Municipal Corporation, with a view to future population growth and the city’s expansion. “If we work together, Cyberabad has the potential to become another Silicon Valley,” he said.
“Boasting about developing a Global City is not enough; development must actually align with that vision,” he said. To further decongest the inner areas of Hyderabad, a 100-acre bus terminal at Gajularamaram on the city’s outskirts has been proposed.
This terminal, work on which will start in three months, will ease congestion in the existing Mahatma Gandhi Bus Station (MGBS) at Imlibun in central Hyderabad and Jubilee Bus Station at Secunderabad. A master plan has been chalked out to enhance transport facilities and to provide housing to lower-income groups, the CM said.
“Under the master plan, we are taking up the second phase of the Metro rail. It will be expanded from Raidurg to Neopolis near Kokapet. New flyovers and elevated corridors will come up. To provide housing, we are constructing one lakh houses for LIG and MIG sections in the city. Along the lines of the Rajiv Gruhakalpa scheme, we will provide housing for people in their present places of residence. The government was formulating plans to reclaim government land from encroachers and to build homes for the poor. That is how a city is developed,” he said.
The CM stated that the increasing population and changing dynamics of the city could result in redrawing of the maps of several Assembly and Parliamentary constituencies. The large Assembly seats of Serilingampally, Kukatpally, and Qutubullapur could be reorganised into at least 10 seats, he said.
