Metro Rail Connectivity To Go Up To 415 km In Four Years: KCR
The Telangana CM said that an action plan was being drawn up to reduce the traffic in Hyderabad further by taking up various other works.
Hyderabad | 15th August 2023
Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao today announced that the State government had designed an action plan to extend the Metro Rail connectivity to 415 kilometres in and around Hyderabad with an estimated cost of Rs 69,000 crore, and that the proposed project would be completed in the next 3-4 years.
Addressing the official Independence Day celebrations at the Golconda fort, the CM said that the Metro Rail facility would be expanded by connecting all the junctions around the ORR and to enable people to reach the airport from wherever they were.
The Chief Minister said that with Hyderabad emerging as a global city, the State government had also taken up the Strategic Road Development Program (SRDP) at a cost of Rs 67,149 crore aimed at making Hyderabad a signal-free city, and that it had constructed 42 main roads, flyovers, underpasses and ROBs so far as part of it.
He added that the State government had also completed the construction of 22 link roads at a cost of Rs 275 crore, and that an action plan was being drawn up to reduce the traffic in Hyderabad further by taking up various other works.
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