Chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy laid foundation stones for three road widening works and as well as construction of a flyover at Tolichowki junction here on Saturday in Greater Hyderabad limits. The estimated cost of these four projects is at Rs 153.28 crore.

As part of his whirlwind day-long programme, the chief minister arrived at Botanical garden junction, Kondapur where he laid a foundation stone for road widening works from botanical garden to old Bombay highway via Masjid Banda village at an estimated cost of `35 crore . The length of the road to be widened is 3.8 KM and the road be widened from its present width of 7.5 to 13 meters to 36.5 meters. The six lane divided road will have 2 meter cycle and 3 meter footpath cum drain. The road will form a major link between Hi-tech city to old Bombay road which will ease out the traffic on Kondapur main road. The GHMC has aims to complete the project within 24 months starting from Saturday.

Later, the chief minister drove down to Tolichowki junction where he laid a foundation stone flyover at a cost of Rs 45.90 crore and the length of the flyover is 650 meters.  With the construction of the flyover the traffic congestion will be eased out from Mehdipatnam to Gachibowli and Hi-tech city and vice versa besides it also reduces the time of the travel between these places. The six lane fly-over was also proposed to develop as expressway in future. The GHMC set a goal to complete the project within 18 months.

At the same place, the chief minister also laid the foundation stone for widening of the road from Tolichowki junction to Gachibowli for a stretch of 7.45 KM at an estimated cost of Rs 43.48 crore. The six lane divided carriageway will have 2.5 meter wide cycle track and 3.3 meter wide footpath cum drain on either side of the road. The GHMC aims to complete the project within 24 months.

The chief minister later drove down to Ram Singh Pura, Ganesh Ghat where he laid down a foundation stone for widening of a road from Nandanavanam (Moghal Ka Nala) to Purnapul. The estimated cost of the 3.43 KM length project is Rs 29 crore. The proposed road will form a major link from old city to airport. Further, the existing roads at Purnapul junction i.e Karwan and Jiyaguda roads have already saturated in terms of traffic volume passing through the roads and also the widening of the roads will not possible be on these roads because of existence of religious structures.