The Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) will prepare
development strategy for the proposed 13 Urban Nodes (UNs) and 46 Urban
Centers (UCs) in the Hyderabad Metropolitan Region (HMR).

The
development of the urban nodes and centres will be an expansion
programme apart from creating economic activity and employment that
would help in triggering balanced and sustainable development of HMR.

HMDA
has invited request for proposal for selection of consultants for
preparation of feasibility report on UCs and UNs and preparation of
development plans and infrastructure development. Consultants will be
engaged to carry out a detailed feasibility study of all the UNs and UCs
for their feasibility and provide strategies and a framework of
development, investment and implementation.

It can be recalled
here that HMDA prepared the Metropolitan Development Plan The  MDP
envisages Hyderabad acting as a primary nucleus to the other multiple
sub-nuclei centres identified as UNs and UCs. THE NODES: In the MDP,
HMDA proposed 13 Urban Nodes at Farooqnagar, Bhuvanagiri, Shabad,
Malkapur, Chevella, Choutuppal, Sangareddy, Ibrahimpatnam, Toopran,
Jeedipally, Thummaloor, Kandukur and Bibinagar for the second order
development identified spatially which have the potential to grow.

HMDA
officials told Express that each of these UNs is envisaged to be a
self-contained zone. The proposed Regional Ring Road (RRR) of MDP is
passing through most of these nodes, providing strong regional linkage.
The UNs are of varying sizes and MDP has incorporated detailed land use
with roads, parks and open spaces, areas under public and semi-public
use zone and environmentally sensitive areas have also been proposed.
The facilities to be studied include health, education, e-Seva centres,
railway and APSRTC reservation centres, banks, RTOs,  registration
centres, transport link to UNs and UCs, and identification of
bottlenecks/constraints in each sector. Other facilities like water
supply, power, sewage, solid waste and public amenities have to be
studied and prepared in detail as per the MDP.

THE CENTRES: The
HMDA proposed 46 Urban Centres (UCs) in MDP for the third order
development centres identified spatially which have potential to grow.

The
centres include Pochampalli, Kottal, Mirkhanpet, Tallapalli, Dhobipet,
Vargal, Dharmavaram, Narsapur, Lemur, Ismailkhanpet, Dandumailaram,
Shivampet, Maryala, Nintur, Mughalgidda, Rachlur, Turkapalli, Nelapatla,
Kandukur, Yacharam, Chinnakondur, Yeliminedu, Pantangi, Virlapalli,
Khanapur, Dayallatanda, Khanapur, Polkampalli, Chintalcheruvu, Chegur,
Bommalaramaram, Subhanpur, Donti, Tumlur, Chinnaravullapalli,
Tangedupalli, Cheekatimamidi, Kandawada, Markuk, Gummadidala, Gungal,
Manchal, Manyaguda, Daulatabad, Mulugu and Malkapur. These centres are
scattered all around the region and are inter-dependent on urban
contiguous pockets.