HYDERABAD: Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy will lay the foundation stone on Thursday for the 11.5-km elevated expressway from Mehdipatnam to the international airport at Shamshabad. It is aimed at providing faster connectivity from the city. The project was mooted by GMR Group that submitted the proposal for the expressway along with the Detailed Project Report and requested the Government to evaluate it in the Swiss Challenge mode. The Government accepted it as the suo motu proposal and appointed HUDA as the nodal agency to evaluate the proposal. HUDA then called tenders for appointment of consultants to examine the proposal .

Notification

HUDA Chief Engineer Vivek Deshmukh said the notification for inviting Expression of Interest for shortlisting the prospective bidders for the Rs.600-crore project would be issued on Thursday. He said as per traffic projections, apart from the ORR providing access to the airport from Gachibowli, those commuting from city need faster access and the expressway would fulfil the requirement exclusively. The expressway would be completed by the time the international airport was ready.

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