The Congress government in Telangana has shelved the Hyderabad Pharma City project the previous Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) regime had conceived and instead decided to establish 10 pharma villages across the State, beginning with Vikarabad, Medak and Nalgonda.
“Pharma City [project] is gone,” Minister for Industries and IT D. Sridhar Babu said while replying to queries on the status of the project that the previous government had mooted on around 10,000 acres with plans to scale it up to several more thousand acres.
The Minister, who interacted with the media on the sidelines of BioAsia 2024 here on Tuesday, said that the shift was necessitated on account of the long-term environmental burden of Hyderabad Pharma City, objections of the farming community as well as litigation surrounding the land acquisition.
