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Hyderabad metro project work to begin this year

Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI: Union Urban Development Minister S. Jaipal Reddy on Friday expressed hope that the Metro project for Hyderabad would start within the current financial year. Assuring technical and financial support from the Centre, he said the project should be a reality on the lines of Delhi Metro.

The Minister said this after an all-party delegation of MPs and MLAs from Andhra Pradesh met him to discuss the Metro and other pending projects concerning Urban Development Ministry. The State Government was selecting the consultants for the project, and that developing countries would witness rapid urbanisation during the second half of the current century. He said city planners would have to prepare for this growth amid projections that over 50 per cent of the population would reside in the urban areas.

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