HYDERABAD: For the fund-starved Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA), the collection of user fee (toll collection) on the Outer Ring Road (ORR) stretch from Ghatkesar to Shamirpet (137 km) has come as a major respite as it would be fetching nearly 100 per cent additional revenues to them per month.
As against the present monthly remittance of Rs 4.15 crore, Hyderabad Growth Corridor Limited HGCL (a joint venture of HMDA and INCAP) would get Rs 8.23 crore per month. The present contract period for collection of user fee on the ORR stretch is going to end in January.
Last month, HGCL on the basis of competitive bidding invited tenders for collection of user fee on ORR stretch from Ghatkesar to Shamirpet via Pedda Amberpet, Shamshabad, Narsingi, Nanakramguda, Patancheru and Medchal having 137 km with a diversion of about 3 km at Kandlakoya (near Medchal on National Highway 44) at 19 interchange locations including link road from Gachibowli to Narsingi.
As against the minimum amount of Rs 6.40 crore fixed per month by the bidder to HGCL M/s Eagle Infra India Limited, a user fee collecting agency has bagged the tender for an amount of over Rs 8.23 crore which is more than Rs 1.83 crore fixed than the minimum bid amount fixed by HGCL.
The user fee would be collected on ORR from Ghatkesar to Shamirpet at 19 interchange locations. They include Ghatkesar, Pedda Amberpet, Taramatipet/Gowrelli, Raviryal, Bonguluru, Tukkuguda, Pedda Golkonda, Shamshabad, Rajendranagar, APPA, Kokapet, Nanakramguda toll plaza, Edulanagulapally, Patancheru, Sultanpur, Dundigal, Ramp near Medchal sub station, Ramp near Kandlakoya and Shamirpet. It also includes link road from Gachibowli to Narsingi.
According to HGCL officials, the selected agency has to erect new facilities as no basic infrastructure would be provided by HGCL at the proposed user fee collection plazas and booth locations. The bidder should provide minimum required infrastructure.
The officials said that agency has to collect user fee rates applicable and chargeable on different categories of vehicles as per government orders issued from time to time.
These rates are changed every year from April 1 based on whole sale price index of the week ending or immediately after January 1 of the year in which such revision is undertaken as per government orders, the added.
As many as six bids were received and four of them have been technically qualified. M/s Eagle Infra India Limited (Rs 8.23 crore), M/s Sahakar Global Limited (Rs 8.21 crore), M/s MEP Infrastructure Developers Ltd (Rs 7.27 crore) and M/s Kalyan Toll Infrastructure Ltd (Rs 7.68 crore), HGCL officials added.