The Times of India               09.12.2013

Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation plans welcome boards at joint capital borders

HYDERABAD: With the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) jurisdiction to be joint capital for the proposed state of Telangana and the residuary Andhra Pradesh, the corporation has decided to erect welcome gates on the borders of Greater Hyderabad.

According to GHMC commissioner Somesh Kumar, the welcome boards and other signages would be erected at 14 locations - Kurnool road on National Highway 7, Srisailam road, Sagar road, Vijayawada highway, Uppal-Warangal road, Keesara road, Dammaiguda crossroads, Alwal on Rajeev Rahadari, Medchal-Kompally NH road, Jeedimetla-Narsapur road, Ramchandrapuram-Patancheru road, Expressway- Nanakramguda road, Osmansagar road and Himayatsagar road.

GHMC officials said the limits have nine 200-feet wide roads and four 100-feet roads and the entry point would be either a gantry or portal frame across the road wherever possible with signage indicating commencement of GHMC limits. The entry points would be developed with footpaths for about one km inside the limits with dividers, landscaping, greenery up to one km, road markings and modern streetlighting in central median. Wherever gantry was not possible, butterfly cantilever structure in the central median and signages could be wall mounted with thematic on shoulder.