HYDERABAD:The proposed state-of-the-art Inter City Bus Terminal (ICBT) at Miyapur, which also caters to inter-state bus services, to be developed in public-private partnership remains a non-starter.
The reason for the delay is that the land for the bus terminal is in litigation and the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority is striving for resolution of the litigation.
ICBT, conceived as Asia’s biggest bus terminal, is to come up in a 55-acre land at Miyapur on the Miyapur-Bachupally ring road, about 2 km from NH-9, at a cost of Rs 100 crore. The surplus land was handed over to HMDA in 1981 by Ranga Reddy district collector for raising financial resources to meet the project cost.
However, some private parties have claimed a portion of the land as their property and a civil case is pending in the Supreme Court. HMDA is making efforts to end the litigation for the project work to begin at the earliest.
The state government accorded approval to HMDA in December 2016 for signing an agreement with the preferred bidder but no agreement has been signed in these two months due to legal hurdles, say HMDA officials.
ICBT is meant to provide better infrastructure and one-stop integrated facilities to commuters and bus operators; to operate and maintain at a pre-determined quality, render cost-effective and efficient services to users.
The developer has to provide minimum development obligations for 60 per cent of 1 lakh sft (built-up) passenger terminal, 200 bus bays/platforms for outstation buses and idle bus parking for 1,000 buses.
This is to be developed in two years. The remaining 40 per cent of the area is to be developed in four years from the date of agreement.
The developer needs to pay fixed annual lease rentals for 33 years — Rs 1 crore in first year with an annual hike of 5 per cent. The developer should also pay revenue share as additional development premium of Rs 1.50 crore every year from the fifth year of project operations till the end of authorisation period. The payment will be either 5 per cent of the gross revenue or the amount specified each year, whichever is higher.
As of now, the city has bus terminals at Imlibun, Jubilee Bus Station in Secunderabad and at Dilsukhnagar which handle about 2.50 lakh passengers a day. Ideally, one bus terminal is required for every 50,000 passengers.
According to the Comprehensive Transportation Study (CTS) conducted for the metropolitan region, Hyderabad requires six bus terminals in the next two years and 26 by 2041 and six in the next two years.
The study proposed bus stations at Miyapur, Medchal, ECIL Crossroads, Dundigal, Ibrahimpatnam, Vanasthalipuram, Uppal and Shamshabad.