Hyderabad Metro Rail (HMR) has announced that the remaining 5.5-km balance work from MGBS to Falaknuma in the Old City under the first phase of metro rail will be taken up by issuing land acquisition notices to about 1,000 properties within a month.
Preparation of individual sketches of the affected properties has started, and road-widening will be restricted to 80 feet to save several religious/ sensitive structures. At the same time, roads near the proposed stations will be widened to 120 feet, “learning lessons from the first phase of construction”, informed HMR managing director N.V.S. Reddy on Sunday.
Chief Minister K.Chandrasekhar Rao had directed the HMR authorities to start preparatory works for undertaking the remaining part of the metro rail work in the Old City a few days ago. The balance metro alignment is through Darulshifa junction - Purani Haveli - Ettebar Chowk - Alijakotla - Mir Momin Daira - Haribowli - Shalibanda - Shamsheergunj and Aliabad.
