pv narasimha rao expressway
Monday, October 19, 2009
The 11.6-kilometre-long expressway, the elevated corridor that connects Hyderabad, the capital city of Andhra Pradesh, with the new Shamshabad Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, is likely to be thrown open for vehicular traffic by Diwali.
The elevated expressway, which cost Rs 600 crore and passing through many congested routes, will provide a faster and rather trouble-free travel to the new airport, which is 27 kilometres away from Hyderabad city.The expressway from Sarojini Devi Eye Hospital to Aramgarh will cut down the travel on the route by 30-40 minutes.The flyover, constructed by the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority, is planned to be named after the late P V Narasimha Rao, former Prime Minister.According to Anam Ramnarayan Reddy, Andhra Pradesh Minister for Municipal Administration, the 11.6-kilometre-long, 4-lane carriageway has been constructed with the state-of-the-art technology, using the segmental-type, post-tensioned construction of super structure.Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister K Rosaiah will inaugurate the flyover next week. Trial runs are being carried out now.While the actual cost of the flyover is Rs 439 crore, the rest Rs 161 crore was spent in acquiring land for shifting utilities.The officials of the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority say that the major components of the flyover project like Underpass on National Highway-7 at the Aramghar Junction, widening and strengthening of the Atgrade IRR from Rethibowli to Aramghar from 4 lanes to 6 lanes, and the Trumpet Interchange have been completed.Also completed are minor protection works such as speed-breakers, hazard-markers, railings, streetlights, signages, placing of median slabs, and bitumen surface.In the meantime, there are reports that a hitch of a political kind is delaying the inauguration of the elevated expressway, which was ready about 10 days ago – that there has been covert move from certain quarters to rename the expressway after the late Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy (YSR) who died recently in a helicopter crash. In fact, Rajasekhara Reddy had announced October 2, 2009, as the deadline for the completion of the flyover project.The Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) is leading the opposition to naming of the expressway after P V Narasimha Rao since the party believes that Narasimha Rao was responsible for the demolition of the Babri masjid.Work on the expressway, which began in September 2006, was intended to be completed in 26 months, but it got delayed, till it was finally completed about 10 days ago.
The elevated expressway, which cost Rs 600 crore and passing through many congested routes, will provide a faster and rather trouble-free travel to the new airport, which is 27 kilometres away from Hyderabad city.The expressway from Sarojini Devi Eye Hospital to Aramgarh will cut down the travel on the route by 30-40 minutes.The flyover, constructed by the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority, is planned to be named after the late P V Narasimha Rao, former Prime Minister.According to Anam Ramnarayan Reddy, Andhra Pradesh Minister for Municipal Administration, the 11.6-kilometre-long, 4-lane carriageway has been constructed with the state-of-the-art technology, using the segmental-type, post-tensioned construction of super structure.Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister K Rosaiah will inaugurate the flyover next week. Trial runs are being carried out now.While the actual cost of the flyover is Rs 439 crore, the rest Rs 161 crore was spent in acquiring land for shifting utilities.The officials of the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority say that the major components of the flyover project like Underpass on National Highway-7 at the Aramghar Junction, widening and strengthening of the Atgrade IRR from Rethibowli to Aramghar from 4 lanes to 6 lanes, and the Trumpet Interchange have been completed.Also completed are minor protection works such as speed-breakers, hazard-markers, railings, streetlights, signages, placing of median slabs, and bitumen surface.In the meantime, there are reports that a hitch of a political kind is delaying the inauguration of the elevated expressway, which was ready about 10 days ago – that there has been covert move from certain quarters to rename the expressway after the late Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy (YSR) who died recently in a helicopter crash. In fact, Rajasekhara Reddy had announced October 2, 2009, as the deadline for the completion of the flyover project.The Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) is leading the opposition to naming of the expressway after P V Narasimha Rao since the party believes that Narasimha Rao was responsible for the demolition of the Babri masjid.Work on the expressway, which began in September 2006, was intended to be completed in 26 months, but it got delayed, till it was finally completed about 10 days ago.
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