HYDERABAD: GHMC will adopt a new approach to road-widening in Greater Hyderabad, which is facing road blocks for a variety of reasons such as delay in getting consent from owners for acquiring the required portions of lands, shifting of utilities, shifting of construction and debris wastes and translocation of trees. Only after getting owners’ consent for acquisition of their lands and paying the compensation will the corporation invite tenders for demolition of the structures, shifting of utilities like water and sewerage pipelines, street poles and translocation of trees etc, GHMC chief city planner S Devender Reddy told Express.
Road-widening is held up if any of the above said issues is not settled on time, thereby causing inconvenience to road users. To avoid these problems, the GHMC has identified 34 important roads for simultaneously taking up structural valuation, structural compensation, shifting of utilities and translocation of trees. Heretofore, after getting the owner’s consent for land acquisition, there used to be an abnormal delay in finalising the structural value of the affected building, shifting of utilities and other matters.
The 34 roads are being taken up as per the master plan and keeping and the Strategic Road Development Programme (SRDP) as well. Teams have been constituted for speeding up filing of land acquisition proposal, negotiations with the affected owners and coordination with the executive engineers (projects) concerned and special-grade collectors (land acquisition). The zonal city planner will be the nodal officer to monitor the work everyday and submit compliance reports to the CCP on every Monday on the progress of road-widening works.
The 34 roads to be widened on a priority are given below and the number of properties to be affected in brackets.Cheralpally RoB (34), Uppal Jn to Nalla Cheruvu (168), LB Nagar Junction (54), Bairamalguda Jn (57), Kameneni Jn (57), Kothapeta to Nagole Jn (216), Rakshapuram to Habeeb Nagar (49), Balapur Jn to DRDL (124), Bandlaguda Jn to Errakunta Jn (125), Himmatpura to Fathe Darwaza (138), Hussaini Alam to Doodhbowli (172), Bahadurpura Road (45), Sahastripuram RoB (6), Gudimalkapur Jn to Lakshminagar (6), Ekminar Masjid to Bazarghat Jn (40), Golnaka to Amberpet (281), Road No.13 Banjara Hills (69), Road.No 45 , Jubilee Hills (8),Borabanda bus stop to NRR Puram (168), Narayanamma College to Gachibowli (144), Khajaguda Jn to ORR (164), Gachibowli Jn to Kothaguda (150), Botanical Gardens to Old Bombay Highway (164), Free Left at Gachibowli towards ORR (2), Madhapur Mega Hills Link Road (15), Moosapet Crossroads to Kaitlpaur via Kukatpally municipal office (104), Balalnagar to Narsapur Crossroads (230), Ambedkar Jn to Suchitra Jn via Quthbullapur (132), Rub Anandbagh to ZTC Road (46).