Centre urged to sanction funds for Hyderabad Metro Rail Phase-II
He mentioned that the Government of India (Gol) sanctioned metro rail projects as Joint Venture (JV) projects, and they are under construction in more than 20 cities, and most of these cities are much smaller than Hyderabad. These cities include Agra, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Indore, Kanpur, Kochi, Lucknow, Meerut, Nagpur, Patna, Pune, Surat, Trivandrum among others.
He said, in 2010, Hyderabad Metro was the second largest network, next to New Delhi, but is presently in the 9th place due to negligence of the previous BRS government. Citing this, he requested the Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs to consider and sanction the second phase.
The Phase I of the Hyderabad Metro Rail, covering 3 corridors (69 km) was constructed by the Congress government with ₹22,000 crore. The Telangana government submitted the Hyderabad Metro Rail phase-ll expansion proposal covering five corridors (76.4 km) as a JV project of the Government of India and the Telangana government at an estimated cost of ₹24,269 crore, Mr. Reddy said.
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