HYDERABAD: The Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad (MCH) is to take up the Ameerpet-Erragadda stretch for widening as soon as it completes the current road widening in Banjara Hills Road Nos. 2 & 3 and Jubilee Hills Road No.36.

The Ameerpet road widening is to be accorded top priority and work will start next month, according to Chief City Planner B. Purushottama Reddy.

The road currently has different widths at various points ranging from 40 ft to 120 ft while as per the Master Plan, it has to be 150 ft.

Other roads

The other new roads to be taken up later this year are the Jubilee Hills Check post to Rehmathnagar (to be widened to 80 ft), the Fatehnagar to Balkampet slip road and the Saidabad main road. The Corporation is also racing against time to complete the existing road-widening work in Banjara and Jubilee Hills by next month end as ordered by the Chief Minister.

It has managed to complete demolitions of 106 of the 119 properties listed in Road Nos. 2 &3 while the yet to be sorted out issues pertain to a temple, mosque and the burial grounds. "There is a lot of persuasion involved in the exercise. We have not taken a single property without the owner's consent," testified Mr. Reddy.

Owners' consent

Of the 167 properties along Road No.36, permission was yet to be acquired for 84 more properties. Compound walls are being built wherever the owners have agreed for widening. The Somajiguda to Begumpet road is to be widened to 150 ft and almost all owners have given consent.

Similar road width is to be maintained till Tarnaka and notices have been issued to the properties likely to be affected till Hari Hara Kala Bhavan, the CCP said. In the meantime, the Government too has given a fillip to the Corporation's efforts by allowing transfer of developmental rights (TDR) to land owners whose properties have been affected in the widening of the St. Mary's Road in Secunderabad.

A Government Order (GO.MS. 862) to this effect was released last week allowing TDR for those who surrender the affected portion of the land free of cost to the MCH.

Fifteen properties are still to be acquired on this road of the total of 71 structures of which 56 have already been demolished.

Mr. Reddy is sure that the entire road will be 120 ft wide and free of any obstacles.

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