Looks like it will be a long time before the next phase of the Hyderabad Metro Rail is constructed in the twin cities. While the new Congress government has sent Hyderabad Metro Rail (HMR) back to the drawing board for extending the present line from MGBS (Imlibun) and from there to the Shamshabad airport, it now turns out that the Centre has not yet cleared the BRS government preferred Airport metro line from Raidurg either.
The Centre has only stated that the 31 km Airport Metro from Raidurg which was proposed to be fully funded by the State is under “appraisal” despite the latter seeking “in principle approval”. Similarly, the metro phase-two proposed by the then government from 26 km Lakdikapul to BHEL and 5 km Nagole to LB Nagar estimated to cost ₹8,453 crore under joint funding by the Centre and State is also under appraisal, according to information obtained by RTI activist I. Ravikumar.
In the information shared with the media on Tuesday, the RTI activist having obtained the official correspondence between the Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry and the State government, pointed out that the previous regime took five years to prepare a comprehensive detailed project report (DPR) for the proposed elevated line after initially writing to the Centre for funding in December 2018 with an initial DPR.
