A delegation from Metropolis, Barcelona held discussions with the
GHMC authorities on the arrangements being made for the prestigious XI
Metropolis World Congress-2014 to be held at Hyderabad International
Convention Centre  (HICC) in Hyderabad from October 7 to 10.

The Metropolis team expressed satisfaction with the arrangements made by the GHMC.

Speaking
to reporters here today, secretary general of Metropolis, Barcelona,
Alain Lesaus, Country Director, Metropolis, Sydney, Sunil Dubey,
International Manager, Metropolis, Barcelona, Agnes Bickart, Project
Officer, Metropolis, Barcelona, Teresa Oliver and Regional Manager,
Asia, Cities Alliance, Brussels, D. Ajay Suri along with Mayor M Majid
Hussain and GHMC commissioner Somesh Kumar said that they were satisfied
with the arrangements being made by the corporation and hoped that the
congress would be a grand success.

It is for the first time that
the Metropolis is being organised in South Asia. The theme for the
congress is ‘Cities for All’. As many as 2,000 representatives from 136
cities from all over the world would participate the Metropolis to
exchange ideas and developments taking place in the cities. Exchange
programmes for making the youth lives better in short and long terms
would be prepared for the youth development, Allen said.

Mayor
said that the GHMC is making arrangements for the grand success of the
Metropolis conference and a sum of Rs 100 crore will be spent for
creating infrastructure and Rs 300 crore for road development plan. The
GHMC has earmarked Rs 7 crore for making preparatory arrangements.

He reminded that Hyderabad has successfully conducted Conference of Parties (CoP) in 2012 and has brought laurels to the city.

Earlier, the delegation called on municipal administration minister M. Maheedhar Reddy.

The team also called on principal secretaries of MAUD  Sameer Sarma and SK Joshi.