Hyderabad To Be Slum-Free Soon: GHMC's Somesh Kumar

The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation is implementing several schemes to make Hyderabad a slum-free city in the near future.

Speaking after hoisting the national flag on the occasion of the 66th Republic Day celebrations at the GHMC headquarters on Monday, GHMC Commissioner Somesh Kumar said that the state government had sanctioned Rs 250 crores for the improvement of slums.

Further, he said that the GHMC was coming up with a huge budget of Rs 20,000 crores to take up works like beautification of roads and construction of flyovers like the PVNR Expressway.

The GHMC was also planning to take up construction of skywalks in the near future, he said.

Somesh Kumar said that the GHMC had launched several innovative schemes in the last one year, and that it would continue to implement such welfare programmes.

He said the Rs. 5 meal scheme was benefitting 6,500 people daily, at 20 centres. Similarly, 408 poor drivers had now become owners of vehicles.

Further, the State Government had taken up the Weaker Section Housing Scheme programme with 396 2-bedroom flats being constructed at IDH Colony.

Special Commissioner Navin Mittal, Additional Commissioners, Zonal Commissioners, senior officials and staff of the GHMC also participated in the Republic Day celebrations. (INN)