The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has decided to
speed up the process of land acquisition on the three corridors ofthe
Hyderabad Metro Rail.

Barring two or three stretches like Sultan
Bazar-Badi Chowdi and Ameerpet-Greenlands, Yousufguda and Krishnanagar,
the GHMC proposes to complete land acquisition for road widening in the
next three months for which `200 crore will be required.

Speaking
to Express, GHMC Additional Commissioner (Planning) K Dhananjaya Reddy
said a time frame has been fixed to complete the process. Nearly 60
percent of the land acquisition on Corridor 1 : Miyapur to LB Nagar (29
km), Corridor 2 : Jubilee Bus Stand to Falaknuma (15 km) and Corridor 3 :
Nagole to Shilparamam (28 km) has been completed and for the remaining,
the GHMC will negotiate with the property owners, he said.

He
said some 400 owners whose properties are going to be affected have
approached the High Court and the GHMC is making efforts to get through
the judicial process at the earliest.

Giving details of the land
acquisition on the three metro corridors, Dhananjaya Reddy said that on
Corridor-1, Miyapur to L B Nagar, 184 awards will be issued and
properties would be taken over by this month-end. On the
Moosapet-Bharatnagar stretch, awards for about 26 properties have been
issued and they will be acquired by next week.

From Erragadda to
Punjagutta road, the corporation has identified nearly 55 properties
which could be acquired either through negotiations or by invoking the
land acquisition clause.

Between Punjagutta and Lakdi-ka-pul
stretch, GHMC has decided to acquire 27 properties. From Public Gardens
to Nampally X Road, 79 properties have been identified and of them, 13
have agreed to part with their land.