The Hindu                        13.02.2013

GHMC to speed up property acquisition for Metro Rail

Making way:Road widening work being taken up at Chikkadpally for the
elevated Hyderabad Metro Rail project.- Photo: Mohammed Yousuf. 

While the project’s right of way are 100 ft roads, widening is being done for 150-200 ft in some sectionsWith metro rail piers construction gathering pace, the GHMC is also
is gearing up for quickening the acquisition of more properties en route
the three corridors to provide right of way and ease vehicular
movement. Fresh land acquisition notices were issued for 47 more
properties on the Punjagutta-Nirankari Bhavan (Lakidikapul) road stretch
and also 79 properties on the Legislative Assembly-Gandhi Bhavan
(Nampally) road stretch now that the elevated metro line alignment final
design has been fixed.GHMC Additional Commissioner (Planning
& Projects) K. Dhananjaya Reddy informed that apart from the 126 new
properties being acquired, notices have also been issued to 360 plus
property owners on the Greenlands-Jubilee Hills road stretch.

“We
are taking up land acquisition, demolitions and road widening on a
priority according to the six-stage construction schedule prepared by
the metro rail authorities,” he said. The Hyderabad Metro Rail (HMR)
Limited has disbursed about Rs.234 crore for the work till date. While
the project’s right of way is 100 ft roads, widening is being done for
150-200 ft in some sections. Altogether, the municipal corporation
mandated with the task has taken over more than 300 properties in the
last few months and has 700 more properties to be acquired including
government lands, government-vested municipal properties and private
properties.

The process of acquisition of properties, demolitions
of structures and road widening work was progressing in different phases
across the metro rail corridors. Between Punjagutta-Miyapur along
falling on the Line One – Miyapur-L.B.Nagar, about 350 properties are to
be taken over.

Of the 350 properties targeted between
Musheerabad-Kacheguda falling on Line Two – JBS to Falaknuma, 170 were
demolished. Demolitions are underway for nine of the 72 properties on
the Musheerabad-Chikkadpally stretch, nine properties at Erragadda, nine
of eighty-five properties at Chaderghat.

With the road to be
widened to 200 ft from Bharatnagar to Kukatpally, 290 properties will
face the crowbar. About 19 properties are on line between Nalgonda
crossroads and Mahaboob Mansion, 24 properties Bharatnagar, 80 including
12 Government lands between Chikkadpally-Kacheguda, 72 properties
between Nalgonda crossroads and Kacheguda, etc., he added.