The works on the jinxed and incomplete Raj Bhavan-Fatehnagar link road alongside the Hussainsagar via the Necklace Road MMTS station, being laid to decongest traffic on Punjagutta, Somajiguda, Greenlands and Ameerpet roads would soon the see the light of the day.
The Andhra Pradesh Urban Finance and Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (APUFIDC) has come forward to provide funds for completing the long-pending link road.
Out of the total 4.5 kms stretch, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has already spent Rs 45 crore for completing the 2 kms of second half of the project, i.e., from Begumpet to Fatehnagar-Balkampet.
The road goes across the storm water drain beneath the Begumpet flyover and it has been completed up to 80 per cent. The remaining 2.5 km stretch from Raj Bhavan road to Begumpet was held up due land acquisition and financial problems.
The first half of the road from Raj Bhavan-Brahmanwadi is to be connected to the second half by opening vents under the flyover, according to few senior officials.
Once completed, commuters going towards Secunderabad or Fatehnagar can avoid the busy Ameerpet-Punjagutta-Greenlands road.
The fate of Raj Bhavan to Fatehnagar road has been hanging in fire, though imaginatively the project was broken into two phases for expediting work.
GHMC officials told Express that in a meeting held recently with APUFIDC, they have agreed to provide the required funds to complete the link road from the leftover mega city funds and interest accrued from it.
They assured to provide Rs 45 crore to complete the remaining stretch at the earliest. GHMC would acquire few dozen properties located in Suprabhatnagar, Umanagar, Brahmanwadi and Methodist Colony and once the properties are acquired and amenities shifted, the works would be taken up immediately as the project has already got delayed by over five years.
The project was initially proposed in the late 1990s by the erstwhile MCH and it also got Rs 45 crore fund from the Central government under the Mega City Development Plan.
The incomplete second half of the stretch from Begumpet to Fatehnagar through Balkampet is yet to see light of the day. If this 2 km stretch is opened, it will provide an alternative route to commuters to reach Erragadda or even Secunderabad avoiding the super busy Punjagutta and Ameerpet crossroads.
One lane of the four-lane road starts from behind the Hanuman temple, Begumpet and another at Katta Maisamma temple, adjoining the Hyderabad Public School (HPS) and connecting to Balkampet and the Fatehnagar flyover.
