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Hyderabad
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HYDERABAD, FEB. 8. The smiling demeanour hides his disappointment. The Mayor, Teegala Krishna Reddy, is a distraught man. About to complete three years in office, he feels the capital's best days are behind it. Instead of improving the status of being a premier civic body in the country, the administration has slipped and dog days are ahead, he rues. Growing traffic woes, delays in new flyovers, foot-over-bridges and mass public transport system, lack of new initiatives in improving quality of life, departments working at cross-purposes and on top of it a budget cut of Rs. 50 crores by the Government to the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad is taking the city's sheen off. "The administration has collapsed. The Government is busy inaugurating schemes taken up by the previous regime. There is absolutely no coordination among departments and officials are having a holiday," regrets the Mayor. "What has the new Government done for Hyderabad. Does it have a proper perspective of its growing needs?" he asks. "From garnering funds under the Mega City project, we have a situation of funds being cut. Congress leaders criticised flyovers construction earlier. Now, they want to take up flyovers without proper traffic flow studies. The busiest corridor of Kukatpally to Charminar is not touched," he says. He wants to know why the proposed flyover connecting Dilsukhnagar and Sanatnagar has been put in the cold. Alluding to the huge growth in vehicular traffic in the last few years and expanding city, Mr. Reddy says encouragement for mass public transport was imperative.
MMTS functioning
"If MMTS functions efficiently, many problems can be solved. It is sad that some key stations lack approach roads and the APSRTC refuses to align its buses to the trains. It is a simple matter of coordination and working for a common cause," he avers. Due to lack of proper monitoring, regular works of MCH were getting affected, he charges, referring to complaints on street lighting, garbage clearance and illegal constructions.
His achievements
His complaint list against the Government is full, but his achievements? "Many big and small parks were built in all wards. Our garbage clearance and road sweeping works were the best, coordination between departments, road-widening, modern lighting, sports stadia et al were taken up. The beggar rehabilitation centre is, however, pending," he says. He is also happy with the general body. "Fireworks were expected when the Government changed but I do not want to play politics with the city's development. I want to take everybody along irrespective of party affiliations for the good of Hyderabad," he says.
WOES' GALORE Traffic problems Lack of coordination Cut in budget No monitoring of works
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