HYDERABAD: Winning a four-year-old legal battle and paying a total compensation of `6.50 crore to the owners of 24 flats and 12 shops in Padmahamsa apartments adjacent to ISKCON temple in Secunderabad, the Hyderabad Metro Rail Limited (HMRL) acquired the affected Block ‘A’ of the complex a couple days ago and is demolishing it now to make way for the Metro Rail alignment.
This will facilitate bridging the remaining small gap of about 300 meters between Sangeeth junction and St Ann’s School portion of Metro Rail corridor III, HMRL Managing Director NVS Reddy stated.
Parallelly, assisted by the engineering experts of L&T, Reddy has also conducted a day long technical workshop with the chief engineers and senior engineers of South Central Railway at Rail Nilayam during this weekend wherein the various construction methodologies and safety precautions of building the remaining six Metro Rail over Bridges (RoBs) and the state-of-the-art technologies of Hyderabad Metro Rail project were discussed.
Appreciating the precision, sophistication, safety standards and the advanced rail technologies that HMRL and L&T are bringing to the country, SCR principal chief engineer, S N Singh and other railway senior engineers promised HMRL that South Central Railway authorities would extend full cooperation and support for the early completion of the remaining six metro RoBs.
The contentious issue of payment of ‘Traffic Block Charges’ to the railways is also being amicably sorted out and Metro RoB works will resume in the next few days, Reddy added.With the acquisition of Padmahamsa complex and re-commencement of Alugaddabavi Oliphenta and other RoBs, city Metro project will be fast tracked now, he added.