GAINING MOMENTUM: Outer Ring Road works in full swing at Gachibowli in Hyderabad on Wednesday. — Photo: G. Krishnaswamy

HYDERABAD: The works on phase-I of the Outer Ring Road (ORR) are in full swing, except in minor stretches near Chilkur Reserve Forest and Andhra Pradesh Police Academy (APPA) and a stretch in Nanakramguda.

The magnitude and complexity of the work on the 24.38-km phase-I from Gachibowli to Shamshabad became evident when HUDA authorities inspected the progress of the works along with mediapersons on Wednesday.

The Rs.515-crore phase-I works, awarded to two international companies, commenced in July and in the last five months the difficult part of rock cutting, earth filling, levelling the uneven terrain with several small hillocks has been accomplished to a great extent.

Package-I

A Russian company, Corporation Trasstroy, is executing package-I of the 11-km six-lane road from Gachibowli to APPA, including the link road from Gachibowli to Nanakramguda and with junctions at Gachibowli, Nanakramguda, Narsingi, Gandipet, APPA. Work is going on a culvert, underpass connecting Infosys and L&T buildings besides ground levelling and filling work.

Package-II

A Taiwanese company, Continental Engineering Corporation, is executing package-II of 13.24-km from APPA to Shamshabad, of which 6.5-km has been completed.

The package-II would have 33 structures, including a flyover, ROB, one main bridge, etc. The work on flyover and ROB has commenced. "We are aiming to complete the works in 18 months, ahead of the schedule of 30 months by deploying more machinery and technical teams," a company official said.

Hurdles

The minor hurdles were along the 1.5-km stretch near Chilkur Reserve forest area, 500m stretch near APPA are expected to be resolved soon as both the Forest Department and the APPA have agreed in principle to handover the land but are yet to give possession of land to HUDA.

A status report would be submitted to Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, including the non-commencement of work in some stretches, said HUDA Chairman Sudheer Reddy.

Compensation

"We are confident that it would be resolved once taken up at the Chief Minister's level with Central officials to resolve the compensation to be paid for the Forest Department," he said.

APPA sought time for relocating their present buildings before handing over the site while we have been requesting for immediate handover of the stretch to meet our deadline of providing four-lane connectivity to International Airport by December-end, said ORR Project Director Piyush Kumar.

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